You Can Get 20 Goals If You’re More Selfish, Boss Tells Star On Loan From Nottingham Forest | OneFootball

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Wigan Athletic boss Ryan Lowe has hailed Nottingham Forest loan star Dale Taylor for having a ‘great season’ at the Latics and advised him to be more selfish in the future.

Taylor joined the Tricky Trees academy from Northern Irish side Linfield back in 2020 and played at various youth levels for Nottingham Forest’s academy.

Last summer, he was loaned out to League One side Wigan Athletic, his third loan away from the Tricky Trees, for the entirety of the season.

He was the first-choice striker under previous Latics boss Shaun Maloney and it did not change when Maloney was replaced by Lowe.

Taylor won the Player’s Player of the Year and the Player of the Year awards at the Latics for this season, and Lowe admitted that the Tricky Trees loanee has had a great campaign.

The Wigan Athletic boss insisted how much he likes Taylor as a player and stressed that he needs to be more selfish as a striker to score more goals.

“Yes, he has had a great season”, Lowe told the Latics’ media (2:47) about the Nottingham Forest loan star.

“I said to Dale, he is the type of striker that you like to work with, he listens, and I have been on his case quite a bit.

“He probably thinks I do not like him, but he is a great kid; I love him to pieces, he is a goalscorer.

“But, whatever he does, wherever he goes in the future, he can get 20 goals rather than eleven and maybe, be a bit selfish in certain areas.”

Taylor clocked more than 3,600 minutes at Wigan Athletic this season in all competitions, scoring eleven goals and assisting seven in the process.

Now it remains to be seen if he will be loaned to a team higher up in the food chain next term, after impressing at the Latics.