Chelsea Youngster Joins Hull

Hull City have announced the capture of Chelsea youngster Fikayo Tomori.

Confirmation of the arrival of the youngster came in after the summers’ transfer deadline had closed, but the 19 year old heads into the KCOM on a season long loan deal that will expire next summer.

Born in Canada, he is mainly a centre half and he made his senior Chelsea debut back in the 2015/16 campaign late on in the year, but he did spend the second half of last season out with Championship automatically promoted Brighton where he took in three starts and seven substitute appearances.

Over the summer he was with England’s Under 20 squad who lifted the Under 20 World Cup and so far this season he’s progressed through to the Under 21 step up as he continues his development. He’s in the group this international window that are set to face the Netherlands and Latvia.

Helping him to settle in with be former Chelsea colleagues Ola Aina and Michael Hector.