The centre-back penned a four-year deal with Albion yesterday and the 22-year-old revealed how he left Wolves as a youth product without the promise of another club.
He explained, "I chose to leave Wolves as I wasn't playing games. So I left there to go and play football with my friends, to start enjoying football again. Then Shrewsbury came a year later.
"It was hard as I went from playing football all the time with Wolves to hardly playing at all and I wasn’t happy with that.
"It got me really down and my mum and dad saw that so we made the decision to leave Wolves and I was lucky enough it didn't take too long for Shrewsbury to pick me up.
"Nigel Vaughan was the head of youth at Shrewsbury at the time and I will always be grateful to him for picking me up and having faith in me.
"Of course it was a big thing to do [leave Wolves] but I don’t think I even thought about it at that age, I just wanted to enjoy football again.
"I have always loved football, but it was making me feel down at such a young age. That is not something I wanted, so my family and I made the decision to leave and it was probably one of the best things I have done."
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“I got brought into Shrewsbury and I was lucky enough to get through the academy there and then be given a chance in the first team.
"I signed my first professional contract at 17 in the first year of my scholarship. I was always fortunate at Shrewsbury that I had people to guide me well there. I had people that were confident in me and I will never be able to repay that faith to them.
"The place means a lot to me and I will never forget that they gave me my chance to be where I am today. Without that chance I don't know where I would be today."
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