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Two Promising Young Strikers, Two Divisions!

By on February 16, 2015

Young English talent seems to be coming to the forefront of British football (but no one is getting any ideas about England winning a tournament, because who would ever do that?) and these two young men are certainly talents for the future. One currently playing in the English Premier League (whose TV rights recently sold for a combined £5,160,000,000; I bet Greece wishes they could have Sky and BT fighting over them!), and the other playing in the Sky Bet Championship:

Good “Ings” come to those who wait!
Many clubs around Europe have been waiting to get their ‘good Ings’, with Burnley forward Danny Ings’ contract up at Turf Moor at the end of the season. Ings is rumored to have signed a pre-contract agreement with La Liga side Real Sociedad, managed by ex-Manchester United boss David Moyes. The former Bournemouth player was linked with moves to Liverpool and Tottenham during the recent transfer window. Moyes, whose side are currently twelfth in La Liga, said Ings was a player “anyone would like to have”.

Ings, who has scored nine league goals for Burnley this season, moved to Turf Moor from Bournemouth in August 2011 for a fee reportedly worth £1 million. Burnley manager Sean Dyche says the twenty-two-year-old should remain in the Premier League to help him improve his game; the forward has also been linked with a possible call-up to the senior England side when Roy Hodgson next announces his Three Lions squad, not bad for a player who was on loan at Conference side Dorchester Town just four years ago.

If Ings does get his dream move to Liverpool, Real Sociedad or Tottenham (who could then play promising English Under-21 forward line with Ings and Kane) and receives a call-up to the England squad, it will be a well-deserved rise to fame for a man who is making his debut season in the top flight of English football and was released by Southampton as a school boy. Harry Kane seems most likely to England debutant, but there is a sense that Hodgson likes the look of Ings, too, and, like Kane, has scored multiple goals for the under-21 side. Ings memorably scored a diving header for Burnley in their 3-1 defeat to Manchester United, recently, as well.

Foreign clubs will have to wait until the summer for Ings, with Burnley refusing to sell in January, but will still have to pay “training compensation” for his services, as a is due when under-23 professionals are “transferred between clubs of two different associations.”

The famous name is at it again!
Zach Clough is at it again! The young Bolton striker has burst onto the scene in 2015 and yet again showed his scoring prowess against Watford as the Hornets edged out an amazing 4-3 victory in the Championship, in which Clough score twice for Bolton. Clough has quite a name to live up to in football, with a famous football surname akin to legend Brian Clough, and also more recently Nigel Clough, who has done well at Sheffield United as manager. If he turns out to be anywhere as close a player as Brain Clough was a manager, then he will have at least good career.

Zach Clough has come into the Bolton first team as injuries forced manager Neil Lennon’s hand though the nineteen-year-old’s impressive performances may help make it a permanent decision. Bolton’s strikers are a comparison of young and old, as Clough often plays upfront with golden-oldie Eidur Gudjohnson.

Clough will be twenty in March and has scored four goals in five appearances for Bolton. He came through Bolton’s academy and scored on his debut against Wigan. The young striker could soon be playing in the Premier League if he keeps up this form, and it will do no good to overhype Clough, but he is only three months in my senior and, well, I haven’t scored in the FA Cup.

Photo credit: Jon Candy on Flickr

About Richard Lewis

Richard Lewis can relate almost anything to football and quite often does! You may have seen Richard's previous ideas and work in the BBC Match of the Day Magazine, from 2011 to present. He is a Manchester United and England fan, but has gone to see Leyton Orient play with his O's season ticket in the 2013/14 campaign. Aside from football, Richard has written articles on Doctor Who and studies English Language and Linguistics at the University of Westminster. Aspiring sports journalist.