The left-back has spent the last two seasons with National League South side Welling United, winning the Players’ Player and Supporters’ Player of the Year for 2022/23.

He left Park View Road last month in a bid to secure a move to the National League but George Elokobi’s persistence has paid off with the 21-year-old signing a one-year deal with the Stones.

George said: “With the likes of Sam Bone, Sam Corne and Reiss Greenidge, we’ve got National League standard players and I now include Chi in that. I know he could have made the step up this summer but I am delighted that he chosen Maidstone United and he is buzzing to be part of what we want to do next season.”

Chi came through the youth set-up at Millwall and joined The Wings in the summer of 2021.