Stoke City youngster Scott Wara has explained keeping Fiji waiting over an international call.

His progress has already been rewarded by invitations to join Mark Hughes's squad at training and being named in Fiji's senior national squad – although that's on the backburner because it would have taken him out of Stoke's season for a month or more … and there have been murmurings that England are watching.

It's taking his development seriously which has persuaded him to hold fire on the international front, having been wanted for a tour of Indonesia in the autumn.

He said: “Right now I'm trying to focus on my club. They like the way I'm going and I just want to carry on, I can think about internationals further down the line."