Brighton make surprise Evan Ferguson transfer decision

Brighton are prepared to indebtedness retired striker Evan Ferguson successful January with the highly-rated striker struggling for crippled clip astatine the Amex.

The 20-year-old initially made his archetypal squad breakthrough connected the southbound seashore nether Graham Potter and continued his improvement nether Roberto De Zerbi past season.

Injuries person played a portion successful his advancement stalling nether Fabian Hurzeler this word and helium has been restricted to conscionable a solitary Premier League commencement nether the German.

With the likes of Danny Welbeck, Georginio Rutter and Joao Pedro presently up of him successful the pecking order, Ferguson’s chances of forcing his mode backmost into the starting XI earlier the January model opens look remote.

Ferguson has already been linked with moves to the likes of Manchester United and Chelsea and though Brighton worth the Ireland planetary astatine £60 million, they are not consenting to countenance a imperishable merchantability astatine this stage.

Instead, according to The Telegraph, a impermanent power is connected the cards with the likes of Crystal Palace, Fulham, West Ham and Newcastle apt to beryllium interested.

United, meanwhile, for their part, are apt to support their pulverization adust until the summer, contempt the reservations they clasp implicit summertime signing Jonathan Zirkzee.

The Netherlands planetary has underwhelmed since his determination from Bologna and reports assertion helium could beryllium sent backmost to Italy small much than six months aft helium joined the club.

Zirkzee was handed a accidental to impressment arsenic a 2nd fractional substitute connected Sunday arsenic Ruben Amorim took complaint of United for the archetypal time.

Unfortunately, the 24-year-old failed to grasp his accidental successful a much withdrawn relation down Rasmus Hojlund and was singled retired for disapproval by his caller manager.

‘I deliberation that [decision-making] is simply a concern, you don’t request to manager them astatine this level,’ Amorim told Sky Sports.

‘You person to support the shot and cognize the momentum to enactment the shot successful front. Sometimes you consciousness that you can’t support the shot and you [have to] enactment the shot successful front.

‘Then you person similar we are successful the extremity of the game, we were astir the container with 2 strikers. Josh [Zirkzee] has to recognize that helium has to spell to the container to person the crosses.

‘So we are doing immoderate things that were not astatine the close moment, truthful that is thing we person to address.

‘Sometimes radical speech astir the 3-4-3, that is not the concern, the strategy is the strategy but the knowing of the crippled is what we person to amended a batch successful this area.’

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