I think the changing of managers and coaching staff probably didn't help him. Gigg's believed in him but maybe the others didn't which made him feel like he wasn't going to make it no matter how hard he tried.
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"Now I can go and burn my whole office" - Dr. StrangeHate
That is my name. Also task already done.
He had severe injury issues in his youth as well so that isn't arguable at all.
Are you really a doctor?
I am actually a Doctor of Engineering not the fake medical kind.
Perhaps you're right. But I don't think it's necessarily the case that him having injuries in his youth means that it's inevitable he'll have injuries in his later years, which more discipline and application might have mitigated.
So you're not a real doctor then.
Which what Wilson has been earning every week from United for 5 years.
If a footballer suffers severe injuries at an early age then it's particularly important for them to be really diligent at the sort of S&C work that can help prevent recurrence (or picking up new injuries) If a footballer who suffers severe injuries at an early age then goes on to earn a reputation as a bit of a slacker then it's definitely arguable that subsequent injuries are at least partially his own fault. By no means a certainty but definitely arguable.
Good luck to him. Wise move to make imo, he's still only 23, if he can get banging in the goals then Celtic and PL clubs will take a look at him over the next year or two.
That’s not quite true - he scored twice on his debut, and really did look the part!
He was decent in few games in 2014-15 and many posters used to praise him.
When he came to Brighton on loan, he had a massive run of games, played most of the season and just missed a bit at the end through injury, he was crap, scored max 4 or 5 goals, link uo and hold up play was poor, just had pace.
Genuinely don't think he would have made the first team, Chris Houghton gave him every chance in the season loan he had, and that was straight after the end of the season when he played briefly under Giggs, so his confidence should still have been sky high.
How do you see talent? Talent is what you see when you judge a 13 years old. Not a 22 years old who plays 30 times professionally.
No he cant. We should stop blaming every failed u21 as losing their heads or made it too soon. They just turns out to be not good enough at the end of the day due to many factors (injury, mentality, etc).
You should judge players by their quality or lack of quality on an individual basis. You should never swallow whatever is put out there, but that also doesn't mean they can't be right about a player. In other words, they have nothing to do with Wilson.
Problem is fans seldom gets it right with our academy players.
Yeah, but I never understood why, though. To me he always looked out of place with the seniors.
It's not difficult to understand really. He was superb with the U18s because he had great pace and was a terrific finisher off either foot. Once he got to senior level he both seemed to slack off and think he'd made it, and also started to suffer more and more from his continuous injuries. Partly down to lack of application and partly down to fortune. He was never one of those dead cert looking players whose all around game was incredible but he was a lethal goalscorer, he just didn't want it enough and on top of that didn't get the breaks.
