When I first saw Reece Oxford he was playing a holding midfield role — a position normally reserved for experienced players — in the West Ham first team at the age of 16, away from home at Arsenal.
I thought: 'They must think they have something special here.' And his performance did nothing to convince me any different. On social media, West Ham fans enjoyed suggesting he had Mesut Ozil in his pocket.
But since then he has gone off the radar a little, almost as if West Ham have been trying to keep him a secret.