Exeter City striker Jayden Wareham has “got more to give” after scoring the fastest hat-trick in the club’s history.
The 22-year-old scored three goals in eight second-half minutes to put City 3-1 up at Peterborough before the Grecians were pegged back in a 3-3 draw.
The goals took Wareham’s tally to 17 in his debut season at Exeter after his summer move from Reading.
But despite his great form, City assistant manager Kevin Nicholson – acting as number two to interim boss Dan Green after Gary Caldwell’s departure for Wigan – says Wareham can be even better.
“If I’m being honest, I think he’s got more to give, genuinely,” Nicholson told BBC Radio Devon.
“He scored three brilliant goals and he had another chance where he should have probably scored another.
“He could easily have had five goals today, but his overall game wasn’t of the level that it’s been in some games.
“He puts himself about, he presses hard at the front, he’s our first defender and he does that well.
“But I think he could have been tidier, more proactive rather than reactive when we did have to play the ball forward, I thought he gave too many fouls away and he was offside too much.
“So that in itself is a compliment for a guy that’s just got a hat-trick and will probably get top marks in the paper and all the rest of it.
“There’s so much more that he can do, so much more he can give and I think off the back of that a lot of clubs are going to be looking at him and I have no doubt in the near future he’ll be having an opportunity to play at a really, really high level.”
