The 22-year-old signed a new four-and-a-half-year contract with the Red Devils earlier this week.
“Anderson could be a top player,” Ferguson told United’s official website. “He is strong, he can beat a man and has great acceleration from a standing position.
“He is electric in that sense.
“The area he has to improve is goalscoring. He recognises that and all the players tell him.
“That is his weakness. He doesn’t score enough goals.
“But he is still only 22. He is an emerging player and hopefully in three or four years’ time we will be looking back and saying he has given us goals because he has the ability to do it.”
