As a Stoke City recruit, Favour returned and acknowledged that “some people have to wait 20 years.”
Favour Fawunmi, a recent addition to Stoke City, is evidence that a week is a long time in football. Stoke’s academy scouts had been keeping an eye on Fawunmi during the summer, but he stayed at West Ham until the end of January, when they were able to jump on him and get him up to Clayton Wood for a trial match in front of sporting director Jon Walters and first-team manager Mark Robins.
After receiving a deal offer almost immediately, the 18-year-old winger signed on Friday and made his first-team debut on Saturday, coming off the bench in an FA Cup fourth-round match against Cardiff that was ultimately lost on penalties. In the seventieth minute, Fawunmi replaced Andre Vidigal as the captain.
Fawunmi hopes his first taste of life in the Potteries is only the beginning, even though the Potters may have lost the shootout. “I have no words to describe it. It’s what you’ve always wanted,” he said on the club’s website. Some individuals must wait twenty years, but I was fortunate enough to just have to wait eighteen, and I am thankful to the manager for the chance.
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“It’s a fantastic club, a family club, and they helped me realize that there are opportunities here for me. I’m just thankful that youth coaches Dave Hibbert and Liam Lawrence brought me in.” Following the.
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