We’re in a position where we can probably afford to give minutes to our most promising youngsters for the rest of this season, and next. It’s unfortunate but it’s just the way Wilson’s career has gone that he’s really not in that list anymore. We have Brewster, Jones and Elliott who are all far younger and would appear to have a higher ‘ceiling’. This season was a great opportunity for Wilson to show his true level, and he has. And it’s a good level, but not really one good enough for us. He’s shown he’s got excellent dead ball ability and a knack for scoring from midfield which is obviously a very good thing, but he’s really not shown the all round game in any of his loan spells which would suggest he’d be particularly useful in backing up any position for us.
If Harvey Elliott was playing for another PL club at 17 and putting in the same sort of cameos I’d imagine we’d be quite envious. If Harry wasn’t our player I can’t imagine, at 23, many people would be looking at him as a future signing. He’ll be essentially starting his Liverpool career at the same age as Naby Keita was and a year younger than Sadio and he’s just shown nowhere near enough to suggest he’d get a decent amount of football here. Or that it’d be worth giving him a few minutes over kids like Elliott or Jones (or even some of the ones not near the first team yet).
It’s a ruthless business at the very top and exciting youngsters have pretty small windows of opportunity. It’d be nice to see him have the same sort of career trajectory as someone like Gulácsi but it seems very unlikely he’ll achieve that here.
Why do you think Brewster has a higher ceiling because his younger? Remember Wilson was about a year older than him when he was at Hull and undoubtedly one of the best players in the championship?
This is where you and I differ, I’ve seen his got a good all round game from watching him over here, he fades in and out of games, but he can dribble and he can pass all to a good level.
When watching players in lower teams sometimes unless the player is a Rooney like world beater it’s hard to get the full picture, I’ve mentioned the likes of Shaqiri in the past who’ve adapted from playing with lesser teams and showing a higher level once he’s come here, Origi also.
Wilson incidentally is top 10 for chances created through throughballs with only a handful of players ahead of him, he has scored 7 goals in the league this season, which would have him ahead of all our players except from our front three, two things he has shown is , he can pass especially in regards to creating a chance, and he can shoot, his overall game should be elevated playing with our squad but who’s to know? What I do know is that even at our stage, not every player on our squad is a world class player, there is obviously room for players who aren’t a Salah Mane or TAA, this is something Klopp in particular has shown us.
