Ex-Nottingham Forest star Alan Rogers believes his old club should make a move for Liverpool’s highly-rated youngster Curtis Jones.
Jones scored a sensational goal to sink Everton in Sunday’s FA Cup third round tie at Anfield, a strike which drew comparisons between him and Wayne Rooney’s first goal for the Toffees some 17 years earlier.
Aged just 18 years and 340 days, the Liverpool-born midfielder became the youngest player to score for European Champions in a Merseyside derby since Robbie Fowler did so in March 1994.
His terrific striker with 19 minutes remaining on Merseyside left England number one Jordan Pickford flapping at thin air, as the ball fizzed past him and into the top corner.
Remarkably, Jones wasn't even born when Everton last won at Anfield in September 1999, and his strike should alert Forest, says Rogers, a former left-back at the City Ground.
“Think a loan move to @NFFC for Curtis Jones really could be a great fit,” he wrote on Twitter.
“The boy can play.”
BBC Radio 5 Live pundit and Homes under the Hammer presenter Dion Dublin was one of many former professionals to heap praise on the youngster's display.
“Remember Wayne Rooney's first goal for Everton? We were thinking 'we have got somebody special here',” he said.
