18 year old scores 3 times against one of the best teams in the league, and you're unimpressed because they weren't all worldies.
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The big downside I can see in him at the moment is how slow he is.
He's 18, to put that in perspective, Amad is 21, and still hasn't broken into our team, yet we rightly still talk about him being an exciting, raw prospect. This lad is in an exciting team and look like he fits in effortlessly. Like any player he has his strengths and weaknesses. As others have said, your cumbersome observation was levelled at Kane for years. Will he do it over the course of a season, like Hojlund with us, we don't know, time will tell, but both lads show enough ability that if you're a betting man, you'd say they will. Rooney was 18 during the 2003-2004, he scored 9 goals in the league for Everton. If Ferguson stays fit, I'd say he beats that.
Not slower than Kane - in fact, looks more agile than Kane did (from what I remember based on fleeting impressions at least ) when he was appearing in Europe for Tottenham at 18-19 in-between the loans. People who watched more of Kane at the time have said that he still looked quite cumbersome. EF's still 'growing into his body'- De Zerbi and coaches are clearly trying to improve him physically as well as the technical stuff/decisions (which are both already v. good for his age) and that 'll include agility and acceleration.
per Luckhurst.
Which isn’t surprising. I’d say all the top clubs are monitoring him.
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The Jason Cundy, Jamie O'Hara bit from talkshite about him was hilarious.
Clueless clowns.
Clueless clowns.
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Do these guys not know the rules? He’s played for Ireland in a competitive game so therefore he can’t swap
Clowns.
But, I think the rule is no more than 3 competitive games before you are 21 now.
The rules changed so that anyone who has played only three competitive games before the age of 21 can change their registration, meaning Ferguson would technically have to play one more for us before being locked in.
However, everyone missed a further change of that rule in 2021 which says it doesn't matter if the games are competitive or not. Ferguson has played 6 for us in that case and is therefore ineligible to switch.
Thanks for that, wasn’t aware of those changes
I think everyone will be in for him when the time comes. He's the next Harry Kane.
Yeah and I think his weight is something he'll have to be careful with. Very thick set. It's ok when you're so young but as you get older it'll tell.
I thinl he'll be one of those where his best years happen in the first part of his career. Upto that 27 age.
It's ridiculous and even if it was possible, he never would, the boy is Irish through and through, there's no chance he would pick England in a month of Sundays ... sadly!
He is the one we should be targetting next summer - go all in for Ferguson. Him and Højlund could be world-class.
Rather go for Sesko. Brighton would demand another record fee for this guy.
I’d rather the better player
I don't think there's much difference between them anyways. Certainly not enough to justify costing 50-60m more than Sesko. Brighton got 115m for Caicedo. They'll easily ask 150m for Ferguson.
If Hojlund lives up to expectations we won't be in for Evan. A shame we can't have both...or can we?
It also depends on how the season goes. If we have no right wingers left at the club aside from Amad, that position would have to take precisence. Not to mention we will likely want a CB and RB too. A more reasonable second CF can be expexted. Would be a bit odd to spend 180 odd million and end up with two U21 CFs.
I don't think you'd ever ideally pair two strikers with their profiles. Besides, RedCafe declared 442 as dead a few years ago!
Aside from the financial barriers, it does seem implausible in the modern game to deploy two strikers with any degree of consistent effectiveness. You almost literally need two perfect wingers, two perfect fullbacks and two perfect central midfielders -- in the mold of Scholes and Keane -- to pull this off and that's a very tall order.
Come on now, he's not slow at all.
He's got a good burst of speed to beat who's marking him, but beyond that he's not fast.
How much faster than that does he need to be? Kane doesn’t even have that. Lewa hasn’t had it for years. It’s trivial.
I think it depends on the team, we often rely on counter attacks.
He's a Utd fan which will definitely help,however we still need to show him we are going somewhere as a club. Also the small matter of being able to actually fund it
A certain ex- Brighton, now Chelsea player was a United "fan" - didn't help
He could end up being the player that City believe they can let Haaland go to Madrid for.
You can't accommodate both of them as both will demand playing time when his time at Brighton is done.
You can't accommodate both of them as both will demand playing time when his time at Brighton is done.
His dad works for the FAI development over here, there’s a big chance he goes the Bellingham route and refuses to join an oil club
It's absolutely not trivial, you've just named 2 of the best strikers in the last 30 years. If you don't have pace as a striker, you need to be incredibly good at everything else to still be elite.
Hes a United fan, so he will happily play at Brighton as a starter until we come a callin
I feel like the Irish-United connection is probably stronger than the Ecuadorian-United one.
He will be way out of our price range by then, unless we get bought by Qatari. Even with Sir Jim Ratcliffe, it will be too expensive.
Not buying Ferguson alongside Hojlund, to give us proper center-forward depth was a huge betrayal of our aspirations, by our spineless owners.
Ferguson is a United fan.......
He's not coming. Don't do this to yourselves. It's not happening.
He's not coming. Don't do this to yourselves. It's not happening.
I will gladly take any striker that can score 20+ very average or even shitty goals for us, per season. It will do us wonders, and I would take that over 2-3 amazing goals that our current senior striker, Martial may or may not manage per season.
He’s 18 years old, scoring goals in the Premier League. I think he’ll do alright.
Years ago people would tell you that you had to be quick to be a winger too. It’s utter nonsense.
He’s a quick as most centre half’s. Lord knows where this idea comes from that he’s some dawdling lump.
Also, He’s 18. He’ll get faster if he needs to.
We’ve just bought Hojlund why would he in a for another under 21 striker and basically tell Hojlund we’re done with him? It’s not happening and that’s not even discussing the whole financial side of it . A 2nd back up striker is needed alright .
Ferguson is a special talent. This club should be all over him.
And we shouldn't be limited to only using one striker. We could go with 4-3-3 or some other formation that allows both to play.
Not saying they are similar players, but like Haaland and Alvarez?
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