This is the thing. You buy talent young and mould and develop it into something better than it was; we've taken him in the other direction and that should never happen.
He needs some serious coaching - one of the players who could have done with a pre-season amount of time to get some 1on1 coaching and drilling.
Yeah but we signed him at 22, on a first-team transfer fee and wages. There's not that much room to add that much more in terms of technique to a player at that point, most of the improvements are about consistency and awareness. A player might add specific skills that they didn't use before such as backspin long passes, more weak-foot play and the likes, but they don't massively change how they perform some of the basics.
Think even about like a Patrice Evra who was signed at age 25. He didn't have any massive improvement in technique over the following 5 years, he had a good enough base level and then massively improved his consistency and awareness, while some of his limitations (one-footedness) remained pretty much his entire career.
I honestly think that in some clubs and countries AWB wouldn't even be in an academy team in his late teens with how unnatural he seems with the ball.