Weaving a fine career at Southampton is similar to travelling an uneven road. Ryan Finnigan couldn't so far but he isn't lining up excuses or finding faults in others.
The top-flight and second division are the only career roads in football where transfer mistakes allow clubs and players to regress as before. Recently, Southampton fans will be opening up on the Antoine Semenyo miss three campaigns ago, but marvellous sales of Tyler Dibling and Mateus Fernandes superseded it.
Likewise, loaned out assets Will Smallbone and James Bree were trapped in the backup ranks at St. Mary's, now they are embracing the mainstay jackets. However, proving your mettle in lower divisions as well as during age level football isn't a written promise of a glamorous stay in those two top-tiers referred above.
Southampton's forgotten 22-year-old midfield controller Ryan Finnigan hails from a lower tier football than the Championship, and thus, his form will shoulder his trajectories to Championship and above competitions.
Finnigan admits his share of shortcomings at Southampton
Join it with Finnigan's Staplewood years and he appears to have swallowed one unpleasant pill, either swiftly or with time. That is coming terms to an ample roster competition from a ton of older and younger on-field colleagues.
After making it from the reserve teams, the best performing wonderkids need to wage a healthy lineup spot fight to out-of-favour or backup first-team stalwarts. Sounds an unequal challenge but Finnigan isn't putting anybody at fault.
In his own words, Express and Star quoted: "As much as they're seasoned players, you've got to show that you're better than them. You've got to sink or swim."
Unfortunately, he didn't swam much at St. Mary's and thus, Finnigan has a testing chase to send his name out loud to the Premier League level. Modeling a Wrexham-like year over year division promotion can fastrack the midfielder's career ascend and let's hope bigger and better things keep accumulating at his doorstep for many years.