The life of a professional isn’t always plain sailing – and the extended interview with Fabio Silva highlights that.
The Portuguese sat down recently with the Express & Star and spoke about a variety of topics.
He touched on how close he actually came to leaving the club in the summer.
He admitted that sporting director Matt Hobbs played a big part in him staying at the club.
Many Wolves fans really want Silva to succeed.
He signed for the club for £35.6 million in the summer of 2020 and was thrown in at the deep end following the infamous head injury for Raul Jimenez.
In his second season, Silva didn’t feature all that much with Bruno Lage showing unwavering faith in the Mexican.
And now, Silva has made an emotional admission about that second season at Molineux…
Fabio Silva admits he was left in tears at times during his second season at Wolves
Sometimes, it is easy to forget how young Silva still is.
The starlet only turned 21 a couple of months ago, and is still very much in the infancy of his career.
Silva’s second season at Wolves was really hard. He was looking for minutes that simply weren’t forthcoming, as Lage sought to get Jimenez back to his best level.
Speaking about season two, Silva admitted: “I can tell you, in my second season here at Wolves, it was the most difficult season in my career.
“Sometimes I started to have doubts about myself and my football because of what people say, or things inside the club and the dressing room.
“I tell the truth, sometimes there were difficult days at home and I cried alone. I don’t have a problem saying that because I’m a normal person and I have my bad moments too.
“But sometimes I don’t listen to people because they don’t know how it is inside the club. They don’t know how I push myself to be my best version, I work for 17-18 hours, arrive home and work with my personal trainer and have my physios.
“I dedicate so much to football so when people speak, I was a little sad. It was unfair because they didn’t know the sacrifice I make to be at my best level.
“That season could now be the key for my career because it gave me a lot of good things. I had moments alone crying thinking about what I can improve and I grew up. I am stronger for the next year when I went on loan to feel happy again and feel confidence again.
“Now I’m 100% good and if I have something not so good, I have learned how to take care of it.”
An interesting revelation from Silva
It is really interesting to hear this from Silva about his second term.
It is brave for him to share, and it does paint a picture of what it was like for him.
He probably did deserve more minutes than he got from Lage, with Jimenez far off his best level in 2021/22, which was to be expected.
It was probably very frustrating and confusing for Silva, but clearly he is much happier now after his successful loan spell last season.