Scouting Romania

The Sierra Leone midfielder Julius Woobay (26) has been granted a move on loan wherever he wants, until the end of the season. Universitatea Craiova accepted the player’s request, who feels jaded at Craiova and didn’t even tried to impress new coach Marc Wotte.

The attacking midfielder is in Romania since 2007 and has always been an important player for Universitatea, but this year he has played below his ability and only featured as a rotation player, with 7 starts and other 7 appearances from the bench, scoring twice in the process.

Woobay plays best as a wide midfielder – but has also featured in defense, when required – has good technical skills and creativity, plus decent workrate, as well. He likes to take on his direct opponent, relying on skill rather than pace. Still, he lacks consistency and can go from outstanding to mediocre or even worse from one week to the other and rarely managed to stand out as THE threat in this decent team that now faces a tough battle to avoid relegation, in the second half of the season.