Don't think he's quite reached the level he was maybe expected to by this stage of the current season, again injuries have played their part and in the brief time he has been on the pitch he's looked a bit short of the potential talked about. But that said, he needs game time and unfortunately the standard of player he is competing with probably couldn't be any higher right now, like a few other youngsters in the team, it's bad timing for them.
But this loan move is just what he needs, playing hopefully every week and get that experience he badly needs, get that confidence and generally grow into first team football and play matches at a higher level than what he's used to.
It's easy to forget though, in the last 18months/2years, he has played very, very little football other than training so looking back, maybe we, as in the supporters expected a little bit too much of him this season. He's come into first team level off the back of a bad injury so wasn't going to be easy.
Hopefully the loan move goes brilliantly for him and it probably wouldn't be the worst idea to loan him out again next season and then hopefully he can come and really fulfill that potential with us.
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