Aston Villa have been linked to Arsenal midfielder Jack Wilshere.
The paper report Villa are likely to struggle to persuade the Gunners ace to join them on loan, despite being able to offer him the chance to play regularly.
It is with good reasons that Wilshere should give the option a swerve.
Wilshere has struggled with injuries throughout his career, and the Championship is not a league geared up to enable him to change that.
He has been shown to be unable to hold up to a 38 game season in the Premier League, let alone a 46 game league campaign plus cup games and potential play-offs.
The fixture list means more midweek matches and less recovery time, in a league which is often more physically demanding as there are not as many technicially gifted players as in England’s top tier.
Villa themselves are an up and down side under Steve Bruce, already look like they will struggle to gain automatic promotion.
If Wilshere thought he would be in for an easy ride at Villa he would quickly be proven wrong.
The move would not be great for his personal ambitions either. Wilshere will need to ask himself what the best case scenario is if he is successful at Villa.
Will a stand out season in the Championship be enough to get him into England’s 2018 World Cup squad? Probably not.
That has to be his priority, while Wilshere must also consider that he could be knocked down the pecking order by Jack Grealish when Villa’s young talent recovers from injury later this year.
The repercussions of potentially not being able to get into Villa’s side will be damaging for his reputation and next step in his career.
Steve Bruce will be doing everything he can to persuade Wilshere to sign, but it is a move he should not be tempted to make as there are too many reasons not to sign.
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