Evan Ferguson

Lads he scored twice against Grimsby yesterday. 

SeaSharp wrote: PaddyMaddenIsCounty! wrote: SeaSharp wrote: E2016 wrote: Tweetering wrote: Yeah, if he moves now, he won't get enough minutes at a top 6 club to develop fully. Better off moving when he is 21/22 imo. He would be first choice if he moved to United next season. Ten Hag has a great track record of developing young players. It's the best place for him. He's also not managed a club with same expectations and pressures as United. If, hypothetically, they bought Ferguson in the summer and he only had 5/6 goals by Christmas, there'd be clamour to get a new striker in. I think in this social media age it'd be a huge risk, the way players at big clubs get memed and abused these days is ridiculous. Look what they did to Harry Maguire! He should wait a couple of years and cut his teeth at a club with less pressure. No feck that attitude, we need produce players who embrace pressure, thrive under pressure and who back themselves and push themselves. Can’t compare him to Maguire. But look at Haaland, 6 months of form in Austria and backed himself to do it at Dortmund. No waiting around. Robbie Keane same, off to Inter when opportunity arose, didn’t work but he had balls to give it a go.  He's just turned 18! All well and good citing Robbie Keane, but let's be honest, his club career didn't pan out as it should have - he was finished by the time he was 28/29. So maybe there's something to be said for a slightly more measured approach? I'm not saying he should stay at Brighton for the rest of his career, but another season or two wouldn't harm him. Comparisons to Haaland are tough to make, as we're talking about a lad who's going to go down as one of the best strikers of all time there. EF is good, but not quite that good (unfortunately)

Haaland was still playing in Norway at Fergusons age….let’s see where Ferguson is in 4/5 years if he backs himself. Then debate about them. 

The O'Shea wrote: Some people are never happy - an 18 year old striker breaks through in the EPL and performs well, but that's not good enough unless he moves to a top 4 team in the summer. Spanners

If he stays at Brighton next season and keeps up what he is doing, there is nobody that will be unhappy for him. His stock will continue to grow, obviously, as long as he works hard and doesnt completely regress. And Brighton isnt a bad place for him, obviously.

My only worry with staying at a club like Brighton is things can change very very quickly in the Prem. It's not too long ago Stoke were absolute mainstays and you felt they'd established themselves as another PL club unlikely to be relegated. Brighton are a well run club and seem to have found a really good replacement for Potter, they always seem to find a few gems to keep them punching above their weight as well, but if they make Europe how well set up are they to handle that extra fixture load? How easily and quickly could they end up in a dogfight for relegation? 

PaddyMaddenIsCounty! wrote: SeaSharp wrote: Comparisons to Haaland are tough to make, as we're talking about a lad who's going to go down as one of the best strikers of all time there. EF is good, but not quite that good (unfortunately) Haaland was still playing in Norway at Fergusons age….let’s see where Ferguson is in 4/5 years if he backs himself. Then debate about them.

He'd be mad to go to United at this point in his career. He could make the move in the summer amid fanfare but then a week later United buy some high profile superstar for €100 million and Evan ends up spending most of the season on the bench. Bad idea.

notpropaganda73 wrote: My only worry with staying at a club like Brighton is things can change very very quickly in the Prem. It's not too long ago Stoke were absolute mainstays and you felt they'd established themselves as another PL club unlikely to be relegated. Brighton are a well run club and seem to have found a really good replacement for Potter, they always seem to find a few gems to keep them punching above their weight as well, but if they make Europe how well set up are they to handle that extra fixture load? How easily and quickly could they end up in a dogfight for relegation?  It's all ifs and buts, football is so dependent on the environment these lads find themselves in so anything can happen, I just don't think all the calls for him to stay at Brighton another two or three years is the risk free, playing every week paradise some seem to be putting forward.