So why hasn't it worked out for Woodburn?

[snootyfenooty]

Think as usual people are being grossly unfair on him. Your a young lad and it doesn’t click, you suffer a loss in form (there it is again) and the team around you is playing well.

He might not get on with the management style and he might just be unlucky. But let’s all line up to kick a teenager in the bollocks because it isn’t working out.

I wish him well and hope it works out for him somewhere else. Chances are we will never know for sure why it didn’t work.

Pipped me to it.

 

[The Tea Lady]

It seems inevitable that he is due back at Liverpool from January, but injury aside why didn't it work out for him here?/QUOTE]

In limited time on the pitch he actually laid on some good chances, the stats back that up. In brief spells he was very effective.

We were top of the Championship for a while, and playing some of the best football any of us have ever seen - I'm not sure what teenagers would get into a team with those credentials, but he'd have to pretty special.

Wilder obviously trusted him to some extent - he wasn't frozen out completely, McGoldrick also mentioned him favourably in an interview, but when it looked like he wasn't going to be staying that's when he was no longer on the bench.

Basically he wasn't good enough yet. But it's hard to think of any teenagers who would have been. It's no reflection on him, or us.

Who knows how his career is going to progress, this could be an essential part of his development (as Wilder also mentioned), or it could affect his confidence.

We're 0/2 on Premier League prodigies though. Let's hope we don't make it hat trick.

 

[Kev Gee]

Sometimes transfers/loans just do not work out for a variety of reasons. And non of us know the real reasons. What I will say though is if you find yourself out of favour in Wilders squad plans then it's near impossible to get back in. (Leonard, carruthurs, holmes are recent examples)

Good luck to him though and I'm sure the experience will have shown him that football is not just full of ups.

 

[Old Programme seller]

I did some work at his flat a few months ago he was great offering me a cup of tea as soon as I walked in and having a chat he couldn’t have been nicer far better than Che Adams when I did work for him, the trouble with Woodburn is that he’s very small and light weight but he’s just turned 18 plenty of time to grow but not here.

 

[SwissBlade]

He has, but he's also had periods of being less excellent.

Yeah but sadly for Woodburn he was neither fit/ in form/ ready at those times.

 

[AdamSufc1997]

he always looked anxious on ball to do anything. I can remember when he was one on one with a defender when we played hull in cup and he looked scared to take him on

 

[Dimyan93]

Sometimes loans don't work out, don't think it's fair that anyone talks about his "attitude", met the lad when he first signed and he seemed genuienly excited about joining us. He's obviously got something about him and it just hasn't worked out for us for whatever reason (Duffy/experience), hope he kicks on though

 

[IdLiketoRogerMoore]

He's 18 with no first team experience at any level and has been loaned to a team with PL aspirations.

Most big clubs loan players at that age and with that little experience to League One Clubs for the first loan.

For whatever reason the assumption was that Woodburn would be different.

He isn't, and needs a season in League One...

 

[finlaytheblade]

In the game time he had early season he looked awful continually giving the ball away and no effort or conviction from him

He was given game time early on but never looked the part ,Liverpool themselves will be disappointed with his performances.He had every opportunity to take a shirt never lived up to the hype,maybe at 18 he wasn't ready as he never once showed any quality that we were led to beleave he had.
Some young players don't improve on early promise and fade away ,hope for his sake he's not one.
Liverpool can't complain about his lack of game time and any money owing due to lack of game time should not be paid as he was not up to the standard required,

 

[wizadry]

He probably wore a jumper over his shoulder and sucked lollipops.

 

[metalblade]

Hard to say where it went wrong maybe coming from Liverpool and playing for Wales he expected to walk into the starting 11 the trouble is we don't work like that you have to earn your place here. Obviously he didn't do enough in training or in the short time he had on the pitch in games, what I saw of him he looked well off the pace. Can't comment on his attitude but we can say under Wilder if he had worked hard and shown something he would have got more game time, it could just be that at 18 he was just not strong enough or good enough and a top end championship club was too big a step for him at this stage. I have heard one or two rumours he likes to party but never seen any confirmation. A lot of kids look world beaters at 18 then disappear into non league we have had them at the lane (Di Juve) it happens all over the country.

 

[Sparky]

It happens. Ian Rush anyone?

 

[CarlMcBlade]

Fuck it ........Move on

 

[Blade56]

Emissions

 

[borbokis]

Hard to say where it went wrong maybe coming from Liverpool and playing for Wales he expected to walk into the starting 11 the trouble is we don't work like that you have to earn your place here

I read a quote from klopp that said pretty much this and that's how he wanted it. Would ex0lainwhy the loan still hasn't been terminated. Klopp wants his character tested.