Neco Williams’ Fulham loan ends with injury – pivotal summer awaits – Liverpool FC

Neco Williams didn’t have the prospect to don Fulham’s colors once more this season as harm dominated him out of their Championship finale at Sheffield United.

The 21-year-old loved a productive mortgage spell at Craven Cottage after swapping Liverpool for Fulham within the January switch window.

Williams featured 15 occasions for Marco Silva’s aspect, scoring and aiding twice, as they dominated the Championship to safe computerized promotion again to the Premier League.

However his ultimate look for the Cottagers, this season not less than, got here towards Nottingham Forest in late April having missed the 7-0 thumping of Luton and the ultimate journey to Sheffield United.

Silva confirmed his absence on the ultimate day was because of “a small subject in his knee.” The Fulham boss was fast to say it’s “Nothing critical, however he gained’t be obtainable for the following match.”

It successfully brings Williams’ mortgage to a detailed and a return to Anfield beckons forward of a pivotal summer time in his younger profession.

The Welshman signed a five-year Liverpool contract in 2020 and is aware of an Anfield keep would see him proceed to behave as Trent Alexander-Arnold‘s deputy, however talks of an exit have lengthy existed.

Williams has beforehand acknowledged that he’ll return “a extra mature participant and improved participant” however that he “needs to play as a lot as potential.”

With a shot at a World Cup marketing campaign with Wales, Williams is not going to need to see his momentum halted however minutes at Liverpool would come solely as a rotation choice for Liverpool’s No. 66.

A everlasting swap was flirted with final summer time, with Liverpool open to an exit with a £10 million bid however it quickly cooled and Williams remained for the primary half of the season.

It, subsequently, presents this summer time as an essential juncture in his younger profession as he is not going to be brief on suitors, Fulham will doubtless be one – however it must be proper for the participant and Liverpool.