Evan Can’t Wait: Could Ferguson Be Potter’s Nimbus 2025 ?
HamburgHammer looks forward to further progression of Potter’s Hammers while welcoming yet another striker to the West Ham meatgrinder for attacking players. At least the Ferguson signing is low risk.
I have had a bit of a bad week. Let’s briefly talk about motors here. My old Ford Fiesta Diesel just recently, in December, did pass the German equivalent of the MOT test to be allowed on the road for another two years. 1000 Euros were necessary to replace among other things the headlights and, crucially, a thing called Luftmassenmesser in German, that’s the air flow mass sensor in English I believe. After a few drives the orange warning light came on, so I brought the motor back to the garage where they exchanged the air flow mass sensor once more and free of charge. Since then the bloody automatic is doing something I have never experienced before: Playing up, taking ages to switch from one gear to another and revving high while doing so. I never got a car back from the garage in a state functioning worse than when I brought it in. The car is 15 years old, granted, but only has 100k kilometres on the clock which for a diesel engine isn’t that much. My current garage advised me to not put any money into the car anymore and getting used to the idea of replacing it. Well, I am taking it to another garage for at least a second opinion, that’s for sure. Certainly I don’t want to keep driving the car with the automatic transmission being off like this. IT has put a serious dampener on my mood. Still, fingers crossed…
So, what’s happened in the world of West Ham United then ? Well, we did get another striker after all. Evan Ferguson has joined us on loan from Brighton. Which comes in handy as our gaffer Graham Potter knows young Evan from his reign with the Seagulls, so we can be reasonably certain that Ferguson will actually get starts in claret and blue because Potter knows what he’s getting. Which apparently is a very physical and tall target upfront, a good passer of the ball and also one with an eye for goal. But also one who can hold the ball up, spread it around and bring teammates into play. Sounds like a younger, healthier version of Niclas Füllkrug then. I wish Evan Ferguson the best of luck, we surely could do with a striker that actually works out for our team without getting injured immediately after kicking a competitive ball.
And Ferguson surely will be itching to prove himself as an everyday starter in the PL and a regular goalscorer.
It’s only a loan without any option or obligation to buy. So he might play an absolute blinder, thereby attracting attention of bigger clubs. But these things tend to work themselves out if it’s really meant to be. The loan deal allows Potter and West Ham to assess Ferguson over the remainder of the season and Ferguson will do the same with regard to the club, his teammates, the environment in East London. Should the relationship turn out to be a mutually beneficial one, signing him on a permanent deal in the summer is possible if both club and player want the story to continue. I am 100% sure though that we will be busy scouting and evaluating other targets for the summer window already, for various positions, now that Potter has his old mate Macaulay with him at the club as well.
