EFL Championship outfit Reading have announced their new intake of academy scholars ahead of the 2017-2018 season.

According to the official website of the Royals, fifteen bright talents, including two players of Nigerian descent, have been offered new deals, which will keep them at the club for the next two years.

Ayominde Faniyan and Emmanuel Obamakinwa have been included in the intakes, and both players are sixteen-year-olds.

They will be hoping to follow in the footsteps of Nigeria international Hope Akpan and ex-Portugal youth international of Nigerian parentage Tiago Ilori, who have played for the first team of Reading.

Faniyan and Obamakinwa have earned automatic promotions and will represent Reading U18s in the forthcoming season.

Ifeanyi Emmanuel

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