I WILL NOT PLAY AGAIN:Wolves fc best player announces his sudden departure….

I WILL NOT PLAY AGAIN:Wolves fc best player announces his sudden departure….

Wolves have a number of players out on loan at the moment, but it hasn’t been a great start for one youngster who got some first-team minutes under Gary O’Neil last season.

 

Loan moves can obviously be very important for young players.

Senior football is very different to playing academy games, and loan moves can really bring on a youngster’s development.

 

Clubs have to think about a lot of things when facilitating loan moves but one of the biggest factors is, of course, how likely it is that they will play regularly.

 

Wolves want their players to get minutes under their belts, before returning to Molineux.

Sometimes things don’t work out, and there could be some early warning signs over Nathan Fraser.

 

Wolves striker Nathan Fraser struggling for minutes on loan at Zulte Waregem

Last season, Fraser was given his Wolves first-team debut by Gary O’Neil.

 

He came on in the Carabao Cup game with Blackpool and actually scored in the second-round 5-0 win.

He would go on to make 11 appearances for the club across all competitions, and was rather thrown in at the deep end in the second half of 2023/24 when Matheus Cunha, Hwang Hee-chan and Pedro Neto all picked up hamstring injuries. There were signs of promise though.

 

There was always a reasonable chance that Fraser would head out on loan for the 2024/25 season.

 

But eyebrows were raised when he then joined Zulte Waregem in the Belgian second division.

 

Fraser had interest from Shrewsbury Town back in January and some felt he might have made that move in the summer.

But Fraser headed to Belgium – and it hasn’t been a very fruitful start for him so far.

 

Fraser has made just three appearances for the club, for a total of just 76 minutes.

 

He was left out of the matchday squads to face KAS Eupen and RFC Luttich, and was an unused substitute on the most recent game with RSCA Futures.

Wolves will no doubt be keeping a close eye on the situation with Fraser over in Belgium.

 

At the moment it is unclear why he has barely featured for his new club. There has been no word of any kind of injury. Seemingly, manager Sven Vandenbroeck has not yet been convinced by the teenager, who Wolves have previously branded ‘powerful’ and ‘direct’.

 

Wolves have high hopes for Fraser, who obviously had some decent involvement with the first-team last season.

Wolves have high hopes for Fraser, who obviously had some decent involvement with the first-team last season.

 

The plan was for him to build on that, and play regular football out on loan. Fraser himself opened the door to a temporary move quite early in the summer. So the last thing Wolves will want is for him to just sit on the bench of a loan club.

 

Hopefully, he will start seeing some more involvement soon. Or else Wolves will need to think about facilitating a fresh move for him in January.