He’s one of the most in-form players in the Premier League players, but this season could have looked very differently for Harry Wilson.Deadline Day proved to be crucial not just for Wilson but for Fulham too. A last-minute move to Leeds was suddenly on the cards – on a day when Fulham signed three forwards in Kevin, Samuel Chukwueze and Jonah Kusi-Asare and nearly got a fourth in Tyrique George.
The new additions meant Wilson was nearly granted permission to leave the club – until the deal fell through in the final hours of the window. Now, he’s one of the first names on the Fulham team sheet, with three goals and three assists in his last four Premier League games – averaging a goal contribution every 55 minutes.
Since the start of November, only Erling Haaland, Phil Foden and Bruno Fernandes have been involved in more Premier League goals than Wilson, who also got a hat-trick for Wales against North Macedonia in that period. What could have been for Leeds.
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“It was the first time it had happened to me,” Wilson recalls from Fulham’s training ground about that Deadline Day drama – which he dealt with while on international duty with Wales. “I’m used to watching it on Sky Sports, so to be part of it was different.
“My phone was going off every two minutes. It was going to happen, then it wasn’t going to happen. Then it was back on, then it was off.
“It wasn’t a certain few days or 24 hours. I didn’t know where I was going to be. It was a bit of a relief when the window closed and I could concentrate on the football.”
Wilson had to be patient on that late evening at the start of September – but then…
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