TALENTED teenagers Josh Allen, Max Moore and Sam Williams have been rewarded with first-team deals at Connah's Quay Nomads.

Williams, 17, made his first-team debut in October's League Cup success over Flint Town United, with Moore, 19, following suit two months later against Airbus. The duo also gained international honours during the season.

Allen, 19, was an unused substitute on five occasions as Nomads won the top-flight title, while the trio were all key players in the Under-19s Development League North triumph

Nomads' director of football, Jay Catton commented: “It’s great news for the football club, from the academy and scholars to the first team set-up, for three of our own to gain first team deals for the 2020/2021 season.

"Our ‘one club’ mentality has been the key component of our success across all sectors for the last decade and this news epitomises this ethos even further.

"It's a huge and fully deserved achievement and opportunity for all three players, and a great example for all involved in our academy structure to emulate and aspire to - it shows the pathway provided by the club for our young players to progress and get to the senior level of the game.”

Catton went on to comment on the players individually, saying: “Josh Allen was a new addition to the Nomads' Academy Coleg Cambria scholarship programme last season. A solid centre-half who was a key factor and one of the players of the campaign for the U19s.

"He has trained with the first team numerous times last season and impressed all coaching and management staff with his aerial and defensive qualities.

"Both Max Moore and Sam Williams are real success stories who have come right through the academy from our mini phase at U10s, all the way through to our full time scholarship program and now into the full-time professional first-team set-up.

"Both are tremendous young players with great technical and physical attributes who can operate in attacking positions across midfield with Max also able to operate as a forward."

Catton concluded by praising the academy staff that have coached the players through their time at the club, adding: “It's testament to so much good work from so many in the youth sector of Connah’s Quay Nomads and we look forward to seeing the development of the three players in the first-team set up across the next 12 months.”

Allen, Moore and Williams become the eighth Nomads scholars to gain first-team contracts following in the footsteps of Ben Nash, Joe Sullivan, Conor Harwood, Dominic McHugh, Jacob Barratt and Eric Merner over the last four years.