Confirmed : Southampton offer new deal to Sheyi Ojo's cousin; Tella wins YPOTS

Published: June 05, 2021

Southampton have offered a new contract to Anglo-Nigerian defender Zuriel Otseh-Taiwo that has yet to be signed.

The Saints have submitted their retained and released list to the Premier League and the right-back is among the players kept on by the club for the 2021-2022 season.

Otseh-Taiwo is the cousin of Liverpool winger Sheyi Ojo, an U20 World Cup winner with the Young Lions in 2017 and a player of interest to the Nigeria Football Federation and manager Gernot Rohr.

The 17-year-old Otseh-Taiwo has been on the books of Southampton since the age of eleven, progressing through the ranks before signing a scholarship in the summer of 2019.

Last season, he played 27 games combined for Southampton's U18 and U23 teams, including 12 appearances in the Premier League 2.

Otseh-Taiwo will be hoping to follow in to the footsteps of Nathan Tella by making his first team debut for Southampton in the coming years.

Tella was rewarded for an outstanding campaign after he was named Southampton's Young Player of the Season for 2020-2021 on Friday.

The 21-year-old Tella, who is on the radar of the Nigeria Football Federation, featured 21 times for the first team, scoring his first senior goal in a 3-1 home win vs Fulham last month.

Kazeem Olaigbe and Oludare Olufunwa are the other Nigeria-eligible players retained by Southampton for 2021-2022, while ex-Arsenal schoolboy David Agbontohoma has been released.

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