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Fans Ask Evan Ferguson Question After Manchester United Agree Huge Rasmus Hojlund Fee

Fans Ask Evan Ferguson Question After Manchester United Agree Huge Rasmus Hojlund Fee
Gary Connaughton
By Gary Connaughton
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Manchester United have continued their heavy spending this summer, agreeing a fee worth up to €85million to sign striker Rasmus Hojlund from Atalanta.

The Danish forward is an exciting prospect, one that has the potential to develop into a top class operator further down the line. He possesses plenty of the traits that top clubs covet in a modern no. 9, with the Premier League club clearly confident in his abilities after agreeing to fork out such an astronomical amount of money.

In saying that, there is plenty of risk associated with this move.

Hojlund is still very inexperienced in top level football, having only joined Atalanta in the summer of 2022. Prior to that, he had only two seasons of first team football under his belt at Copenhagen and then Strum Graz in the Austrian Bundesliga. In fact, the player has played a grand total of 69 league games in his career.

As well as that, while he still has a huge amount of room to improve, the player managed a fairly unspectacular nine league goals in Serie A last season.

None of this is to say that he will not turn into a top class striker in the years ahead, but the fee Manchester United have agreed to pay has raised some eyebrows.

Fans ask Evan Ferguson question after Manchester United deal

With the current state of the transfer market, the amount of money a player of the quality of Rasmus Hojlund can recoup has led to some interesting questions around some other rising stars in the game.

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From an Irish perspective, Evan Ferguson is someone that falls into that bracket.

The 18-year old has already shown during his brief career that he has the ability to become a world class player in the years ahead, massively impressing during his first team in senior football with Brighton.

In fact, you could argue that he is a more valuable asset than Hojlund considering his age and success in the Premier League.

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If the Dane can fetch a fee of €85million, how much could we see Ferguson move for in the years ahead? Quite a few football fans believe it will be a price tag that will easily eclipse what Atalanta managed to secure for their prized asset.

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If Evan Ferguson continues on his current trajectory, it is not farfetched to suggest he could become a £100million player in the years ahead. This pending Manchester United deal only further proves that.

Brighton have shown that they will only allow their best assets to leave if their asking price is met and they will not sell the Irishman on the cheap.

For now, he will concentrate on continuing to improve at both club and international level. The thought of what he could become in the coming years is certainly an exciting one for Ireland fans.

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