Leyton Orient Boss Richie Wellens and Punjabi talk about the signatures of Dilantan and Sonny Perkins and why is the important team

Richie Wellens vowed to play his role in improving the national team in football and says he will only sign players who are good enough to play for Leyton Orient.

English football failed to achieve meaningful progress in resolving the long-term insufficient representation of British southern Asians in the game, with much less than one percent of professionally agreed footballers who welcomed from the community-who are still in the UK with a largest ethnic minority group.

Orient Boss Wellens – who shared a locker room with former Newcastle United striker and Cardiff City, Michael Chopra during a short loan magic with Ipswich in his playing days – he proved as the main coach that he was ready to give the opportunity to the top southern Asian talent.

Wellens managed Pakistan International and former Manchester United young man Otis Khan in his first season as head of Orient – and signed his colleagues of British southern Asia Sonny Perkins and Dilan Markanday in this mandate, and the latter joined the Blackburn loan after a successful first campaign in Chesterfield.

On the eve of Thursday night, one visit to Stevenage, live on Sky Sports, Wellens welcomed by ARVI Sahota – founder of the official group of fans Leyton Orient’s The Punjabi O – to club training.

“Sonny has a lot of talent,” Wellens explains. “He was a miracle in West Ham.

“Then he moved to Leeds. I think he had something like 14 goals this year in his first season. That’s not bad, Sonny is a good footballer.

“And then we obviously had problems with the injuries of Agyyi and Ollie O’neill, and Dilan Markanday had a great season.

“I watched Dilan burden himself for Tottenham and Blackburn, and he had a really good season in Chesterfield (that’s why I signed it).

WELLENS: They have to be good enough

Leyton Orient leader continued: “Also, the amount of South Asian player who must live in a five -hour circle (club).

“If they see Dilan Markanday, who plays for Leyton Orient, or Sonny Perkins, he’ll want to play. Mal Benning (for example, in Shrewsbury Town) has been long.

“But they have to be good enough. Then it’s just like the effect of a snowball.

“And when they see people, they can strive to know what they are doing? They exercise more because they want to be like them and that’s why the standard is increasing.”

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