‘Unbelievable’ Ferguson has The Clarets captivated

LEWIS FERGUSON’S fledgling Aberdeen career took off on Thursday night — and immediately led to him being linked with what would truly be a remarkable move to Europa League opponents Burnley.

The 18-year-old scored a spectacular overhead kick against The Clarets at Turf Moor, his first competitive goal, and has impressed the English Premier League club’s scouts.

Lewis, of course, comes from good footballing stock as the son of former Rangers midfielder Derek Ferguson and nephew of Barry Ferguson.

He only moved to Aberdeen from Hamilton Academical this summer and the fee is still to be determined by a tribunal due to be held on August 21.

That hasn’t stopped Burnley from weighing up a bid and there is little doubt Rangers will also have taken notice of the youngster when they travel north for Steven Gerrard’s first league match as manager tomorrow.

Indeed, Burnley goalscorer Jack Cork revealed that he was going to warn former team-mate — now Ibrox midfielder — Scott Arfield about Ferguson (below).

‘I’m going to text Scott and tell him to mark the geezer who does the overhead kicks. Rangers need to get tight to him,’ said Cork.

‘It was a great goal. Unbelievable. Sometimes when someone scores a goal like that you just have to put your hands up and say: “Well done”.

‘When Aberdeen equalised, you are thinking: “What’s going to happen here?” At that point, another goal would have had us in big trouble. We just had to refocus and get going again.

‘Ferguson looked good. He’s strong and aggressive on the ball but Aberdeen have a lot of good players.

‘I think I will watch the Aberdeen v Rangers game on Sunday. I was close to Scott Arfield when he was here.

‘I will watch it because it’s against Aberdeen and it’s Steven Gerrard’s first league match in charge.’

It is for that very reason that the press box at Pittodrie will be crammed with extra visitors.

The presence of the superstar rookie boss is also likely to result in enhanced viewing figures when Sky Sports beam the Premiership match live from the Granite City.

But Aberdeen keeper Joe Lewis insists he is just glad he will not be seeing Derek McInnes in the Rangers dugout after the Ibrox side’s failed move for the Dons boss last season.

And while Gerrard has been backed with cold, hard cash to bankroll the latest Ibrox revolution, Lewis is quietly confident that Aberdeen possess qualities that money cannot buy.

‘There is a lot of interest in their new manager from outside but I am not too fussed who the Rangers manager is,’ said Lewis.

‘I don’t care, really. I am just pleased it wasn’t Derek McInnes!

‘We will look at their team. He (Gerrard) should have an impact on their games in the same way that our manager will have an impact on our games.

‘Rangers have spent a lot of money. They have spent more than us. Their players will be on bigger wages than us.

‘But the last two seasons we have finished ahead of Rangers and we have shown that we have something that money can’t buy.

‘It is a secret and I don’t know what it is. But it is something that has worked out for us.’

If Aberdeen have serious designs on finishing ahead of Rangers again this season, they will likely need to plunder more points from their encounters with the Old Firm.

‘We only took four points off Celtic and Rangers last season, so we need to improve that,’ said Lewis. ‘But in the last few games of the season we performed well and had one of the best points tallies after the split. ‘We are looking forward to the big games this season and we feel we have a team that relishes that now.

‘In a one-off game or cup tie you can be unlucky but you can’t be unlucky over the course of the season. You finish where you deserve to finish.’ Meanwhile, Lewis is praying that Scott McKenna is still an Aberdeen player when the transfer windows shuts.

Swansea have enquired about the 21-year-old international, whom McInnes rates as the best defender in Scotland. ‘Scott is a helluva player and I am sure there will be a time when he will go on to big things in his career,’ said Lewis.

‘I’ve never played with a young player who has taken to things as quickly as Scott. ‘But he knows he hasn’t played a whole season yet for us and he has so much to learn here. ‘I will be happy to see the window close with Scott still

at Aberdeen.’