Nahki Wells, the Huddersfield Town striker, has urged compatriot Aaron Burgess to make the most of his opportunity at the Sky Bet Championship club.

Burgess impressed the Huddersfield coaching staff during a weeklong trial last September and is set to sign professional terms when he turns 17 on March 9.

The Bermuda Under-17 player, who is poised to become the first Hamilton Parish player to turn professional, has been studying in Florida, where he has also been playing academy-level football.

Wells, Huddersfield’s leading goalscorer this season with 11 goals, is delighted that Burgess will be making the move to the West Yorkshire club.

“Congratulations to him for taking the step to come to the UK and also being scouted and having done well,” said Wells, who signed for Huddersfield for a club-record £1.3 million from Bradford City in 2014.

“I saw him when he was up here and had a chance to catch up with him.”

Although he was delighted for his compatriot to be afforded the opportunity to broaden his football horizons, Wells stressed that the hard work has only begun.

“The easiest step is to get what he’s been offered, which is an opportunity,” Wells said.

“But now he has to take the opportunity and it’s not easy for young players to turn professional. Huddersfield is a club that’s pretty good at doing that, but it’s very difficult to make it from a scholar to the first team.

“If he stays level-headed and works hard then the sky is the limit and he can go as far as he wants.

“If you work hard and stay level-headed you never know what opportunities can arrive.

“But first and foremost he just needs to come and hit the ground running and take in all the information provided to him.”

Wells has offered to help Burgess make a smooth transition to the professional level.

“I will be there so I will always try and provide him with wisdom and set an example for him,” he said.

Burgess was a student at IMG Academy in Bradenton, Florida, at the time of his trial and had to receive international clearance before he could return to England.

The opportunity to show Huddersfield’s coaches what he can do came last summer after four-day tryouts run by Footy Promotions in conjunction with the UK Football trials company.

Burgess was one of seven players singled out for trial opportunities with professional and semi-professional teams in England.

Such is Burgess’s potential that rather than offer him a two-year scholarship to the Huddersfield Academy, the club is understood to have offered the Bermuda player a professional contract, which will come into effect on his seventeenth birthday next month.

“This is a big opportunity for him and I congratulate him on getting this opportunity,” Wells said.

“He has helped represent Bermuda well and I’m sure the whole island and his family are very proud of him.”

Meanwhile, Wells is up there with the best goal scorers in the English League based on stats over the past 3½ years.

According to a report in the Huddersfield Examiner, Wells has scored a total of 64 league goals since the beginning of the 2012-13 season, which puts him up there with the top strikers in England.

Wells’s record is just three shy of Manchester City’s Sergio Agüero, who has notched 67 goals in the Barclays Premier League in the same period.

And although there were reports linking Wells to other clubs, the former Dandy Town player opted to remain with the club for the foreseeable future.

The arrival of David Wagner, the Huddersfield head coach, in November has coincided with a scoring surge by Wells, who was linked with a move to several of his club’s Sky Bet Championship rivals during last month’s transfer window.

Leading the scoring charts over the period from August 2012 is former Huddersfield striker Jordan Rhodes, who earned Town a slice of sell-on money when he moved from Blackburn to their Championship rivals Middlesbrough for £9 million his week.

Second in the list is Charlie Austin, Southampton’s recent signing for £4 million, with 73 while Troy Deeney of Watford has 71, Agüero 67 and Ross McCormack of Fulham on 65, followed by Wells.