Diouf was recruited by the Galaxy Football Academy in his home city of Dakar, Senegal, aged 13. He joined the Academie Mawade Wade - named after the former Senegal national team coach and boasting graduates including ex- Manchester United and Stoke man Mame Biram Diouf - four years later.

West Ham United have completed the signing of El Hadji Malick Diouf from Slavia Prague. The Athletic reported on Sunday that the clubs had reached an agreement for the 20-year-old defender. He now arrives on what West Ham called a “long-term” contract and becomes the club’s first signing of the window.

Only a day after West Indies endured one of its worst performances in nearly a century of playing test matches, the president of the Caribbean cricket board was looking to the past to improve the future.