{"id":802263,"date":"2026-08-04T09:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T09:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/802263\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T09:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T09:16:09","slug":"premier-league-2026-27-twenty-youngsters-who-could-impress-this-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/802263\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier League 2026-27: Twenty youngsters who could impress this season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nineteen-year-old striker Luca Fletcher joined <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/ipswich-town\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ipswich Town<\/a> on a permanent deal in the summer after a successful loan spell from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/manchester-city\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Manchester City<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While at City, rapid forward Fletcher, an England Under-17s international, helped the club reach the FA Youth Cup final in 2024 and 2025 before impressing at Ipswich, scoring six times in the Premier League 2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He is yet to play a senior game, but has been training with Ipswich&#8217;s first team, with new boss Gary O&#8217;Neil saying he has been impressed by the youngster. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Town&#8217;s attacking options look limited with unproven Brazilian striker Emersonn, 22, joining for \u00a324m, and Japan&#8217;s Daizen Maeda also signing in an \u00a38m move from Celtic. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the Championship, the centre-forward duties were shared between George Hirst and on-loan Spaniard Ivan Azon. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, Hirst, an unused member of Scotland&#8217;s World Cup squad, only scored 11 league goals, while Azon only got five and has returned to parent club Como.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nineteen-year-old striker Luca Fletcher joined Ipswich Town on a permanent deal in the summer after a successful loan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":802264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-802263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=802263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/802264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}