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Liverpool ready to terminate Woodburn deal

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Liverpool are ready to rip up Ben Woodburn’s season-long loan at Sheffield United in the January window, according to Goal.

The football site claim the Merseyside giants are weighing up six weeks ahead of the window re-opening whether to take advantage of a recall option in the deal agreed with the Championship outfit in the summer.

Goal report formal discussions over a termination of the deal have yet to take place but it is a growing possibility as Woodburn has had just 28 minutes of senior football since August.

OPINION

Woodburn is gaining valuable experience of how there are no guarantees in football, even for a highly rated player at a Premier League giant dropping down a division to a club where he would expect to be a key player and regular. Instead, the man who scored his first Liverpool goal aged 17 has been frozen out at the Championship promotion candidates and made just two substitute appearances since August. Liverpool have showed in the past they will act decisively if they feel their loaned-out players are not getting enough game time, with Ryan Kent’s season-long spell at Freiburg last season terminated at the half-way stage. Sensibly, all the Merseysiders’ year-long loans appear to have recall options, which gives them the freedom to call a halt when things are not working out, or to leave well alone when they are. Woodburn might have developed some resilience in recent months, but ultimately he needs to be playing regular senior football. Expect this loan to be ripped up at the first opportunity.

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