I don't think you can underestimate how hard it must have been for a 22 year old to come into that team and be expected to be the main goalscorer that we're basically hanging our hat on. We had a very young and very inexperienced squad where the only players with any proper premier league experience were Heaton, Elmo, Targett and Neill Davis. Everyone else had made a handful of appear most. I mean Wesleys backup was Keinan Davis ffs.
I doubt he would have been good enough long term but in terms of goals he'd got 5 at the halfway point of the season. I'm fairly certain that he'd have got to double figures which in reality isn't bad in a team that struggled. Our top scorer that season was Grealish with 7 and the strikers that came in for him scored 1 league goal between them after his injury.
So yes Ollie would have replaced him and we'd probably have sold him for a loss to a club in Germany or the Netherlands. But thanks to Ben Mee his careers basically fucked. If I were him I'd try the MLS or even the A league. Somewhere with a far slower pace and less physicality. I wish him good luck though, the poor sods going to need it.
