The thing is chaps, no one is really writing him off or saying he won’t or can’t make it here. Merely that some of the hyperbole is a little bit much. We’ve all watched football long enough to have seen the big talents come through here. Not one of them was ever loaned out. And that was when we were a top 4 challenger generally. For the last 18 months we’ve been on an upward trajectory to the point now where we’re pretty much indisputably one of the best sides in Europe. And we’re talking about competition for places with the likes of Salah, Mane, Firmino, Keita, Shaqiri, Oxlade. Top, top class players. That’s the sort of level, like it or not, that Wilson really needs to be at. Of course we don’t expect him to be Mo Salah, but we’ll most likely be adding one or two big attacking players in the summer (rightly so) and if he isn’t close to their level then he isn’t going to play.
It really shouldn’t be taken personally if some people have doubts that he will be at that level any time soon. It’d save us a shit tonne of money if he does, and solve a homegrown issue. Which we’d all love. Doesn’t mean that we should just blindly ignore past evidence which is that when a player is continually loaned rather than getting first team opportunities for his parent club, it’s normally a decent sign that the manager doesn’t particularly rate him.
