Arsenal icon Ian Wright’s grandson D’Margio signs new Stoke contract

ARSENAL icon Ian Wright’s grandson D’Margio Wright-Phillips has been handed a brand new contract by Stoke Metropolis simply days after scoring his first objective for the membership.

D’Margio – whose dad is Shaun Wright-Philips – has had a whirlwind month for the Potters.

The 20-year-old solely made his debut for Stoke in the beginning of January of their FA Cup third-round tie towards Leyton Orient.

However Wright-Philips Jnr was simply getting began and adopted up his debut with a man-of-the-match show on his first Championship begin in Stoke’s win over Hull Metropolis a couple of weeks in the past.

After which, the winger continued his spectacular run of kind by capping his run-out towards Fulham along with his first-ever senior objective.

Wright was ecstatic and shared his jubilant response to his grandson’s objective on Twitter.

Now, to prime off a memorable month, Stoke have awarded the youngest Wright with a brand new two-year contract for his exceptional contribution.

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Talking on Stoke’s choice to present Wright-Philips a brand new deal, Potters boss Michael O’Neill mentioned to the membership’s web site: “D’Margio had been coaching with the primary staff for quite a lot of weeks earlier than we determined the time was proper to present him a chance to play.

“He’s nonetheless a younger participant with an excessive amount of growth forward of him however and he has actually impressed myself and the teaching employees along with his angle and willingness to study and deserves his new contract.”

The Potters will hope Wright-Philips can assist fireplace them again into the Premier League along with his targets.

If the teen does handle to characteristic within the Prem in some unspecified time in the future in his profession, he’ll get the possibility to attempt to emulate his granddad’s unbelievable scoring tally.

Whereas he was at Arsenal, Wright bagged 104 targets in simply 191 Prem video games.