West Ham United’s Rush Green Training Ground was a hive of excitement and activity as members of the first-team squad returned for the first day of pre-season on Thursday.
Senior players who were not involved in international football during the summer underwent screening and scanning as head of medical services Richard Collinge and his staff checked the health of each player and set their data benchmarks for the coming season. 
The likes of UEFA Europa Conference League goalscoring hero Jarrod Bowen, Pablo Fornals, Emerson Palmieri, Kurt Zouma and Angelo Ogbonna, who signed a new contract with the Club this week, were among the names to undergo testing across a busy morning at the training ground. 
Handshakes, embraces, and laughter once again filled the corridors and dining room at Rush Green as the squad shared stories from their respective off-seasons, with Bowen returning to training for the first time since the birth of his twin daughters and Fornals stepping back into work as a married man, following his wedding last month.
