What happened to one of the Premier League's hottest prospects?

Evan Ferguson used to be the Golden Boy, but what went wrong for him?

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00:00Evan Ferguson was Brighton's teenage superstar. De Zerbe's golden boy, the hat-trick goal scorer

00:05as a teenager in the Premier League. But now at just 20 years old, everyone's forgotten about him.

00:10So what actually happened? Just like Micah Richards, he burst onto the scene at just 18.

00:15He scored 12 Premier League goals in his first two full seasons, nominated for PFA Young Player

00:19of the Year, and De Zerbe even said that he had no obvious faults in his game. But then everything

00:25changed. Ankle surgery, glandular fever. A long recovery later, he missed key games and pretty

00:31much the whole of 24-25. And despite loans to West Ham, he just never really got back to sharpness.

00:37In that loan spell, he was under Graham Potter, the former Brighton manager. But still, zero goals,

00:41eight Premier League appearances, and just 14 minutes in those eight games. Potter was never

00:46really known at Brighton for getting the best out of the attackers anyway. Everyone has him written

00:50off like he's finished. Equalling Wayne Rooney's goal-scoring record as a teenager in the Premier

00:55League to being forgotten about seems insane. Tell us in the comments, can he find it again?

00:59Or is it all over at just 20 years old?