Liverpool are weighing up a January loan for Will Wright, with the Mail’s Lewis Steele reporting that the club want the teenage striker to toughen up away from the academy.
It follows a flying start to the season. Wright has scored back-to-back hat-tricks in the UEFA Youth League and now has 13 goals at academy level. He’s been a regular for Rob Page’s U21s and gave senior defenders plenty to think about during the short EFL Trophy campaign.
Coaches have picked out hold-up play and heading as the areas to work on, along with not letting defenders get in his ear. Toughening him up is one of the main aims, and a loan is seen as the way to do it.
The 18-year-old is in his second season at the academy since joining from Salford, and he’s shown signs of maturity and a good sense of where the goal is. This month he won his first England U19 call-up, coming off the bench for the last 11 minutes of a 4-1 win over Slovenia on Wednesday.
Gary Probert, Liverpool’s head of loan management, will be involved in the talks. The right club has to be found for the move to be worth making.
The Reds currently have 11 players out on loan, and some of those, Harvey Elliott’s spell at Valencia included, will be reassessed when the window opens in January. The U21s have a quiet schedule once Wright is back from international duty, which adds to the loan talk. He’s also eligible to play for the first team in the Champions League.
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