{"id":559081,"date":"2020-07-21T12:43:42","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T16:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/?p=559081"},"modified":"2020-07-21T12:43:42","modified_gmt":"2020-07-21T16:43:42","slug":"crystal-palace-sign-highly-rated-teenager-nathan-ferguson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/07\/21\/crystal-palace-sign-highly-rated-teenager-nathan-ferguson\/","title":{"rendered":"Crystal Palace Sign Highly Rated Teenager Nathan Ferguson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/2f8d27bc\/Nathan-Ferguson\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nathan Ferguson<\/a> has officially joined <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/clubs\/crystal-palace\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Crystal Palace<\/a> after failing to renew his contract at West Bromwich Albion. The 19-year-old defender becomes the first signing of the summer for Palace who were in dire need of some youth in an ageing squad.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Crystal Palace Sign Teenager Nathan Ferguson<\/span><\/h2>\n<h3><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Both Ferguson And Parish Happy With Deal<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Ferguson, after finally putting pen to paper, had this to say via the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cpfc.co.uk\/news\/2020\/july\/nathan-ferguson-joins-crystal-palace-f.c\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Crystal palace website<\/a>: &#8220;It&#8217;s great to be here. Crystal Palace is a great club, in my opinion, and I feel like there&#8217;s a lot that I can bring to the team. I&#8217;m so happy to be here, and I can&#8217;t wait to get started.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Steve Parish, the Crystal Palace Chairman, also had this to say about the deal: &#8220;Nathan is a fantastic signing for us, a player we&#8217;ve been committed to for a long time. He is hungry, focused, has a great attitude and he&#8217;s got an abundance of talent. It&#8217;s been a challenging six months for Nathan, and I&#8217;m genuinely so pleased for him that we have finally secured his services.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The Long-Awaited Wan Bissaka Replacement<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Since the departure of <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/9e525177\/Aaron-Wan-Bissaka\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Aaron Wan-Bissaka<\/a> last summer, Crystal Palace have failed to replicate the Englishman&#8217;s presence down the right-hand side. With the signing of Nathan Ferguson, however, the Eagles have themselves an incredible player for both the present and the future.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The former <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/clubs\/west-brom\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">West Brom<\/a> defender can play both right-back and centre-back, giving Roy Hodgson plenty to think about when opting to play the new signing. And, at just 19, Ferguson will have the perfect defensive mentor in <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/7914b9fe\/Gary-Cahill\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gary Cahill <\/a>&#8211; a former <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/category\/premier-league\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Premier League<\/a> winning captain.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Ferguson Looking to Convert Championship Form to Premier League<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Ferguson will be hoping to convert the incredible form he has shown in a potential season of promotion at West Brom into the Premier League for Crystal Palace. The young fullback is the highest rate teenager by<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WhoScored\/status\/1285578275046092800\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> WhoScored.com<\/a> out of Championship players this season, pipping both <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/57d88cf9\/Jude-Bellingham\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jude Bellingham<\/a>, who recently signed for Borussia Dortmund, and<a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/ae5019e6\/Jayden-Bogle\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Jayden Bogle<\/a> to first place.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The deal could end up being the bargain of the summer for Crystal Palace, who have sealed the signing of one of England&#8217;s top prospects on a free transfer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"pNm1YR20QbNc0c6ssnv8Yg\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/1187199326\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'pNm1YR20QbNc0c6ssnv8Yg',sig:'iIkpMtP7YI6aSyRuC42756fL5Cm6tQGbKF8U2rt5yJY=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1187199326',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nathan Ferguson has officially joined Crystal Palace after failing to renew his contract at West Bromwich Albion. The 19-year-old defender becomes the first signing of the summer for Palace who were in dire need of some youth in an ageing squad. Crystal Palace Sign Teenager Nathan Ferguson Both Ferguson And Parish Happy With Deal Ferguson, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3402,"featured_media":559090,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,33,32,30,3,28,26],"tags":[4063,2618,547,4295,132,136],"class_list":["post-559081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crystal-palace","category-championship","category-league-football","category-news","category-premier-league","category-transfers","category-west-brom","tag-2019-20-premier-league","tag-aaron-wan-bissaka","tag-crystal-palace","tag-nathan-ferguson","tag-west-bromwich-albion","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Dale Ventham, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3402"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}