It has been quite the fall from grace for Joe Worrall at Championship outfit Nottingham Forest, particularly as he could be in the Premier League with Burnley.
Joe Worrall has not featured in any of Nottingham Forest’s first four games of 2018/19. And it does not look like his first-team prospects are about to get any better.
Worrall started last season under Mark Warburton as a crucial part of Forest’s squad but the 21-year-old centre-back is well down the pecking order a year later. Aitor Karanka has brought Michael Dawson, Jack Robinson, Tobias Figueiredo and Michael Hefele to the City Ground while turning Danny Fox from a left-back into a solid central defender.
As a result, the Nottingham Post reports that Forest would consider letting Worrall leave on loan in an attempt to secure more regular game time.
This is quite a fall from grace, just seven months after the East Midlands outfit rejected a £10 million offer from Premier League Burnley for a player who captained England to success at the 2017 Toulon Tournament.
Considering that Worrall barely featured after Karanka’s arrival at the start of 2018, the chances of him regaining a starting place in the near future look slim. So a temporary move away from the City Ground does appear to make sense.
But the fact that he has gone from almost first choice to fifth or sixth in the space of a few months will be a disappointment to supporters who believed Worrall was the latest starlet to emerge from their prosperous academy.
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