[Albion] Evan Ferguson

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Apparently things haven't worked out well for Ferguson this season with injuries being an issue.

It is possible that we may keep him, sell him or send him out on loan.

Brighton willing to sell Evan Ferguson

Brighton would be willing to sell striker Evan Ferguson in the January transfer window if they receive a suitable offer.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[brighton_tom]

I think the club thought that Evan was our mid-term main striker and save us £40m+ in spend, plus would also be the next £100m+ sale in 2/3 years time. So did most of us. The NSC new striker threads even dried up!

It’s not working, that injury EF picked up at f***ing Chelsea is starting to look career changing, the majority of that £200m on wingers/ACMs and none of it on a number 9 is starting to look like a mistake.

All true. But in the same way we’ve given Solly time & eased him back in, surely we should be doing the same to see if there’s the chance we can revive talent in Evan. It just seems a bit hasty to let him go.

 

[Ike and Tina Burner]

We have. He was injured in Dec/Jan at same time as Ferguson. Hurzeler just played Pedro and Rutter instead.

We took 5 points from the 7 games we played without him.

 

[Justice]

In the video, towards the end, FH justifies playing Gruda instead of Minteh with: “Because we faced a low block, and we tried to find solutions in narrow spaces, and that's why we brought in Gruda.”

Later that evening, however, it emerged that Gruda played instead of Minteh because the latter arrived late.

Did he say why he keeps benching the inform Rutter?

 

[herecomesaregular]

I imagine it's all pretty simple. A manager sometimes just don't fancy a player and they don't play them. Ferguson may fall into that category and then the club has to choose whether back the manager. Such is football.

 

[jakarta]

Got to go , both sides will benefit.

 

[Hugo Rune]

I imagine it's all pretty simple. A manager sometimes just don't fancy a player and they don't play them. Ferguson may fall into that category and then the club has to choose whether back the manager. Such is football.

To be fair to FH, he has looked poor in every performance under him except the shot the subsequent goal against Wolves.

What he needs is minutes to play himself into back good form. I don’t blame FH in preferring Welbz, Rutter or Pedro at this point.

The question is then around does a fully fit and in-form Ferguson get in our team? I’m wondering if his all round game is not what FH requires in a No.9?

 

[Boroseagull]

Bobby Smith, Alex Dawson:.... goalkeeper, defender, post, ball and net ... approximately in that order

And Bert Addinall before those two.

 

[GT49er]

Bobby Smith, Alex Dawson:.... goalkeeper, defender, post, ball and net ... approximately in that order

Ah, those were the days! (Apologies if the link doesn't work)

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/19/93/6c/19936cd5eedb2b7273bf973512be98ba.jpg

 

[um bongo molongo]

To be fair to FH, he has looked poor in every performance under him except the shot the subsequent goal against Wolves.

What he needs is minutes to play himself into back good form. I don’t blame FH in preferring Welbz, Rutter or Pedro at this point.

The question is then around does a fully fit and in-form Ferguson get in our team? I’m wondering if his all round game is not what FH requires in a No.9?

The issue with this is if/when we decide FH is not the right man in the next 12-18 months, and we’ve sold the next Alan Shearer for a set of tracksuits. I agree he doesn’t fit the system (assuming we have a system). But I’m less convinced about the system. I’m not trusting the process I guess

 

[Kosh]

Ah, those were the days! (Apologies if the link doesn't work)

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/19/93/6c/19936cd5eedb2b7273bf973512be98ba.jpg

That was cool thanks for sharing… I didn’t know very much about Dawson… thank you

 

[Jackthelad]

I imagine it's all pretty simple. A manager sometimes just don't fancy a player and they don't play them. Ferguson may fall into that category and then the club has to choose whether back the manager. Such is football.

Yep as is football life. But if there was a choice between keeping the manager or Ferguson, I’d pick Ferguson. We can only hope Ferguson goes on loan preferably abroad than being sold.

 

[Dick Swiveller]

Did they see his goals on film?

More likely to go to Fluminense or Flamengo, I would have thought.

 

[Change at Barnham]

That was cool thanks for sharing… I didn’t know very much about Dawson… thank you

I also was aware of the name of Alex Dawson but didn't know too much about him.
This seems to be a neat summary:

https://wearebrighton.com/albiondat...ing-brighton-opponents-the-alex-dawson-story/

 

[Kosh]

I also was aware of the name of Alex Dawson but didn't know too much about him.
This seems to be a neat summary:

https://wearebrighton.com/albiondat...ing-brighton-opponents-the-alex-dawson-story/

I hadn’t really realised the Busby babe Albion links either, before my time but really interesting stuff ️

Thanks for the link, really interesting read ️

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

I think Arsenal could come in for Ferguson now…



Just hope he goes nowhere near Saudi. What a way to ruin your career but fill your bank account.

Or Villa? Sell Duran for £77m and pick up Fergy for less, wouldn’t see us turning down £50m

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

IMHO it would be a huge gamble selling Evan at this stage in his career. We've seen him in great spells, we've seen him in duff/coming back from injury spells. He could be anything. Would make sense loaning him out to a non-competitor where he could get a run of games under his belt, so we can get a better idea whether to cash in or not. I still think Celtic would be a great loan move for the lad

 

[Hiheidi]

Or Villa? Sell Duran for £77m and pick up Fergy for less, wouldn’t see us turning down £50m

Or they go for Boniface, and Ferguson can still go to Leverkusen.

 

[Flounce]

I am reading between the lines here but the noises coming out of the club don’t sound that enthusiastic about getting Evan up and running again in an Albion shirt. Just transfer speculation being mentioned by the Albion’s tame journalists and cryptic and less than enthusiastic and supportive, imo, comments from FH. I expect him to go before the end of the window and am leaning towards a sale over a loan

Something very odd has been going on. I think Evan may be going a little Enciso on us but behind closed doors rather than in the media.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

I also was aware of the name of Alex Dawson but didn't know too much about him.
This seems to be a neat summary:

https://wearebrighton.com/albiondat...ing-brighton-opponents-the-alex-dawson-story/

I saw him play for us. He was our main striker in 1969. After him came Willy Irvine, who scored in the match of the day 'first game up' win against Villa in Div 3 (I was there). After that we had a couple of poor strikers, Alan Gilliver, Alan Duffy and Kenny Beamish, before the upturn first with fat Fred Binny and then the world turned on it's head with Peter Ward. Strikers of the 70s.....