West Ham United right-back Jeremy Ngakia has become the club’s latest academy graduate to join the first-team on a permanent basis, following in the footsteps of Declan Rice, Grady Diangana and Ben Johnson, and the 19-year-old will hope to establish himself as a key part of the starting line-up going forward.
Ngakia has only three senior team appearances to his name, but has already shown his huge potential, putting in impressive shifts against Liverpool (home and away) and Southampton.
The London-born full-back joined the West Ham academy in 2014 and was part of the under-17 team that beat Gamba Osaka in the final of the J-League Club Challenge title in 2017.