Liverpool signed Wright from Salford City in August 2025 and immediately went about the business of scoring goals and getting himself noticed as a young player with huge potential which makes it clear why Andoni Iraola wanted to take a closer look at Wright as well others.
Iraola isn’t afraid to bring promising youth players from the academy into the senior squad and Will Wright got a taste of it during the summer pre-season thanks in part to the summer being a World Cup one but also because he is a very talented player. Wright didn’t have a big impact but the experience did on him and now the young center forward wants to fulfill his dream of being in the senior Liverpool team.
Just ten weeks into the new season and twelve games played over all competitions Wright is already set for an incredible goal tally with 13 goals to his name after a hat-trick against the U19’s Fenerbahce last Wednesday in Turkiye and as the team’s captain in the UEFA Youth League he is leading by example.
U19’s head coach Rob Page had this to say about Will Wright and why he was named captain for the UEFA Youth League,
> ”He leads by example. He plays as he trains every single day, he gives everything he has got and I think he is a good example to the younger ones around him in our U19s squad.
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> “He’s had his rewards and he’s had a couple of opportunities to train with the first team. You get that with your attitude being right and also your ability to work hard, and your ability on top of that as well.”
It was also during that game where Wright displayed his willingness to be both unselfish as well selfish which resulted as goals in the two incidents of which one was a great assist and the other being a penalty. The penalty situation was where he held onto the ball as teammate Josh Sonni-Lambie tried to take it from him, obviously wanting to take the kick himself but the captain wasn’t having it and finally placed the ball into the back of Fenerbahce’s goal.
To this writer it seems Wright has a touch of Erling Haaland, Harry Kane and the Scouse God Robbie Fowler about him and that’s a pretty good combination whilst around the Liverpool academy he is being called a retro number nine and when speaking to Liverpoolfc.com he had this to say.
> “People tend to call me a retro No.9 who likes to bustle himself about. Those are my strengths.”
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> “From experience I know the contact, I know the right positions to be in. I just need to keep being clinical.”
The confidence on the pitch is a much needed quality of which Wright has plenty of yet it isn’t an arrogance, even with the penalty incident mentioned earlier, as he works hard for the team as well his natural goal scoring ability. This writer hasn’t seen enough of Wright yet but he isn’t the same as Lewis Koumas with the high energy and forever pressing but that’s okay because his talent is putting the chances created away in the opponent’s net.
When considering the path ahead for Wright and becoming a senior team player there is of course Alexander Isak and Hugo Ekitke as center forwards but nothing should deter him from pushing on towards his dream and this writer believes Wright is going to fulfill the future he’s aiming for.
For now though Wright will be experiencing his first international break with the England’s U19’s squad following his first call-up for representing his country.
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