Defender Joey Hope has left Grimsby the Sky Bet League Two club has confirmed.

Hope, 18, signed his first professional contract with the club on an initial one-year deal last summer after coming through the club’s academy.

The left-back made his professional debut for the Mariners in September 2020, starting in the penalty shoot-out victory over Harrogate in the Papa John’s Trophy, and enjoyed a short loan spell at Cleethorpes in October.