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Tom Leach

Nottingham Forest academy graduate determined to become the next Jamie Vardy

Nottingham Forest academy graduate Morgan Ferrier is hoping to follow in the foot steps of Jamie Vardy after making the switch from Walsall to Tranmere Rovers.

The striker, 24, arrived on Trentside in 2012 and spent two years with the club before his release.

Since then he has fallen down into non-league and had to pick himself back up again - but now under boss Micky Mellon at Tranmere he is hoping that his recent upward trajectory can continue.

Mellon was the man at the helm at Fleetwood Town when Vardy, a rough around the edges striker, turned up on his door from Halifax Town.

And the rest was history.

"It was mainly the gaffer," Ferrier told the Liverpool Echo when asked what lured him to Prenton Park.

Jamie Vardy of Leicester City celebrates scoring his sides second goal during the Pre-Season Friendly match between Leicester City and Atalanta. (Getty)

"The strikers that he’s worked with, you look at what he did with [James] Norwood last year by getting that many goals.

"He’s had the likes of Jamie Vardy in the past and Andy Cook, who came to Walsall with me.

"It’s no luck that all his strikers are getting so many goals, it must come from the work he’s doing with them."

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