After a pre-season camp in Germany, Graham Potter’s West Ham are off to the USA for the Premier League summer series. 

The Hammers wrapped up a summer training camp in Germany with a 3-0 win against Grasshopper Club Zürich thanks to goals from Andy Irving, Callum Marshall, and Lucas Paqueta. Graham Potter said: “Germany was brilliant, the staff were fantastic, working really hard together, everybody wants to pull, you can imagine, everybody wants to achieve something, and now it’s just the work to continue and to continue, and we’re looking forward to the States.

“It’s just a build on what we’ve done. It’s slightly different in terms of more games, more tactical focus, more playing matches, recovery, travelling, recovering, but at the same time, there’ll be time to work, there’ll be time to build on the culture, build on the environment, build on how we want to act, to engage with supporters, to engage with the local communities, all those things which I think are still important for us to do throughout the season, because it’s part of who we are and what we stand for, so those things are going to be good and we’re really excited for the trip,” Potter told the clubs Official Website.

As well as improving on the pitch, the point of a pre-season tour in a place like America is to promote the club to new markets. However, we already do have a huge fan base in America, and Graham Potter is fully aware of that.

“It’s always exciting to be part of West Ham because of the fan base, because of the reach the Club has. Yes, we’re really focused on our local community and that’s the foundation of what we do but, at the same time, appreciating and valuing the global brand that we have.

“It seems that wherever you go in the world, there are West Ham fans. Whenever you’re on holiday, you bump into West Ham fans, there’s always somebody in the street giving the ‘Irons’ and stuff, so we can be proud of that, for sure.”