Favour Fawunmi joins Stoke after West Ham exit

Academy prima Favour Fawunmi has joined Stoke City a week aft leaving West Ham.

The 18-year-old close winger has signed a two-and-a-half-year declaration with the Potters, with the enactment for a further year, aft his short-term declaration with West Ham expired astatine the extremity of January.

Stoke offered Fawunmi the declaration connected Tuesday aft helium scored doubly and impressed successful a proceedings lucifer against Huddersfield Town’s B squad which Stoke’s Under-21s won 4-2.

He had attracted involvement from Greek broadside PAOK, who had tabled a three-year contract, but preferred to enactment successful England and present joins up with Stoke’s U21s.

The Englishman signed assistance presumption with the Hammers up of the commencement of the 2022/23 season. That year, helium scored 10 times successful the broadside that won the FA Youth Cup nether Kevin Keen.

Over the past 2 seasons, helium represented the West Ham U18s connected 44 occasions, scoring 17 goals.

Following his betterment from injury, West Ham had offered Fawunmi a short-term declaration past summertime which ran to January 31, aft which helium became a escaped agent.