Ipswich Town loanee Jeremy Sarmiento may not return to Portman Road next season as Brighton and Hove Albion boss Roberto De Zerbi has admitted that the attacker “needs to play in a different context”.
The Tractor Boys, the first English football team to do it since Nigel Adkins’ Southampton in 2012, stunned the football world by receiving back-to-back promotions from League One to the Premier League.
Sarmiento’s late goal to earn a 3-2 victory over the Saints back at the beginning of April was one of the most crucial goals along route to Kieran McKenna’s team making their Premier League comeback for the first time in 22 years.
In a risky move, the former Manchester United assistant coach substituted the Ecuadorian international for leading scorer Conor Chaplin with one minute remaining in normal time. But it was a chance that paid off, as Sarmiento tucked the ball home in stoppage time’s seventh minute to give the East Anglian team a decisive victory and bring chaos around Portman Road.
Sarmiento scored several significant goals for Ipswich Town during his six-month loan period. Soon after joining the team on loan in January, the 21-year-old also scored a late equalizer to steal a draw against Leicester City.
However, Sarmiento was never one of the top names on the roster, and Brighton head coach De Zerbi intimated in a recent press conference that this is why Sarmiento’s future might not be with the Tractor Boys.
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In addition, Sarmiento will have assisted two different Championship teams in receiving promotions in the same campaign if West Bromwich Albion wins promotion back to the Premier League by the end of the month, despite not having a major impact on either team.
Sarmiento played just 1,470 minutes overall this season, or 34 minutes per appearance, for both the Baggies and Ipswich Town in all competitions. For this reason, De Zerbi might not be eager to send him back to Portman Road.
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