Ephraim: Hogan Phillip (Hogan)

2009-2010 (Player Details)

Winger

Born: Archway, Islington, London: 31-03-1988

Debut v Oldham Athletic (a): 01-12-2009

5’9” 11st 0lb (2009)

Attacking midfielder Hogan Ephraim was a product of the prolific West Ham United Academy and represented England at Under-sixteen and Under-seventeen level. He made four England Under-eighteen appearances and scored six times and also played at Under-nineteen level. He became a trainee at West Ham in July 2004 and was highly thought of at Upton Park and seen as one for the future. He did get one game from the bench, albeit for just four minutes, in the 4-2 League Cup win over Sheffield Wednesday at Hillsborough on 20th September 2005. Apart from being on the bench on 28th September 2006 as Palermo knocked the Hammers out of the UEFA Cup he had no further chance to impress. He was loaned to CCCL side Colchester United on 23rd November 2006 to get some first team experience and stayed until the end of the season, scoring one goal in five League starts and sixteen games from the bench. He was loaned out to CCCL Queens Park Rangers on 10th August 2007 for three months and scored twice in eight League starts and five games as a substitute. He had made an impression on Rangers and they signed him for £800,000 as soon as the transfer window opened on 2nd January 2008, on a three and a half year contract. Before the season had ended he added twelve League starts and four more from the bench as well as starting one F.A. Cup tie. He did not cement a first team spot but played regularly enough to have started thirty-six League games and made a further twenty substitute appearances and scored three goals and started one and come off the bench for two more in the F.A. Cup for Rangers by the end of the 2008-09 season. The 2009-10 season saw more of the same and on 26th November 2009 he was loaned to Leeds United until 1st January 2010. He was not allowed to play in the F.A. Cup and he made his League debut for Leeds on 1st December 2009 in a 2-0 win at Oldham Athletic. He twice came off the bench in a 2-2 home draw with Huddersfield Town and a 0-0 draw at Brentford. He scored his first and only goal in his only Johnstone's Painy Trophy appearance in a 2-0 home win over Accrington Stanley. He returned to Queens Park Rangers on 1st January 2010 and took his record there to one goal in the League from sixty-five appearances, of which twenty-one were from the bench, One start and three substitute appearances in the F.A. Cup and two goals in two starts and one game from the bench in the League Cup, by the end of the 2009-10 season.