Every player gets injuries the worst and the best so you saying that "Injuries ruin the best of players and nearly always do for young prospects" is just waffle. Of course there's a chance this injury can't be overcome but you just confidently claiming he'll be in the Championship/League 1 as if its a fact is proper nonsense. People on here don't rate him that highly anymore but he's a properly gifted player but is just gifted at the sort of unsexy stuff that improves with age like box movement, heading, composure, footballing IQ. He's having a nightmare season but if he chooses his next move wisely and his injury isn't an actual career ender, then I'm confident he can play his prime years at PL level.
I’m not stating anything as a fact.
But it is backed up by history showing many bright young starlets get chopped down by injuries and not as many overcoming those injuries and being the same player they were before.
Wayne Rooney stands out as a shining example of a young talent getting injured, still having an amazing career and yet having a huge ‘what if’ sentiment hanging over him as he could’ve been potentially even better, so is Ferguson a Rooney level talent or is he lesser? (Which wouldn’t be a knock would it?)
I said it ruins the best of players to suggest that even if Ferguson was absolutely one of the best, he could still be ruined by injuries. Even if he wasn’t, young talents more often fail to live up to the hype than they do maximising their potential.
It’s just more likely that he won’t go on to be as brilliant as you might think, which will be a massive shame, but it happens, regularly. Of he gets over his issues and smashes his career then brilliant, it’s just not as likely to happen.
And no, no facts, but if you want examples there are many more, perhaps you can point to the ones that do make it big after setbacks early on?
