If this Lazio rumour is true (if), the Woodsman will have a fair bit to mull over.
Pros - Champions League stage (that's a biggie), more dollars, living in one of the world's most famous cities, interesting culture (if he is into that), personal challenge of trying to crack match day squad at a club bigger than Burnley - getting out of his comfort zone, if he's feeling a bit stale. Adoring fans if he succeeds (again if he would enjoy that).
Cons - Leaving a team where he is pretty much an established starter now - would be frustrating if just becomes a season long backup no matter what the coin. The EPL goal scoring stats he has now will be motivating and pleasing him just quietly. Leaving a team that from afar seems to suit him, the way they and he plays, plus seemingly a low dickhead culture. Generalisations but I expect a few more egos in a Lazio dressing room, than at Turf Moore. Would he be okay with that? Burnley boys are 99% English speakers, which won't be the same with Lazio.
And yeah sure Burnley probably is a little shark hole, but Wood will be living in a nice big house in a nice footballer's estate, with his long time partner (a pro women's player in the UK?). He also has his little horse racing hobby with some of his Burnley team mates. So he seems pretty settled and happy where he is.
I see more cons than pros from afar - but yeah the lure of the UCL is a big one, and will highly likely never happen for him if he stays in the UK.
If he does go to the Eternal City, hopefully it works out for him better than Gazza! Some crazy stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zb6-W-zDIgI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFvZ_cqEcSY
https://thesefootballtimes.co/2018/03/23/the-roman-tragicomedy-of-paul-gascoigne-at-lazio/
Of course, Gascoigne’s love for pranks made him a magnet for the wrong kind of attention. Besides his comical cameos with James Richardson on Football Italia – one of which involved him eating his way out of a giant chocolate egg – his jokes on team-mates and club staff were relentless. To name but a few: he deflated the tyres of Aaron Winter’s Porsche, he slipped a dead snake in Roberto Di Matteo’s jacket pocket, he took Dino Zoff’s whistle, attached it to a Turkey and released the bird on the training field, and, according to Zoff himself, Gazza had a propensity to turn up to team dinners naked.
On the field, a string of minor injuries halted Gazza’s progress, and on 24 January 1993 he was dropped for a home game against Juventus. Zoff cited his “poor physical condition”, and following the game, journalists were keen to get the player’s point of view. Gascoigne, already frustrated with his critics, was in press silence and responded by burping into the microphone of a Rai journalist.
A furore followed and the inquest into Burpgate began. The Italian daily, La Stampa, dedicated an entire page to the incident. Meanwhile, Cragnotti fumed and Gascoigne was fined £9,000. However, Gazza’s insolence and disregard for journalists further endeared him with the Curva Nord faithful. One Lazio fan triumphed: “We give Gascoigne’s burp a 10. We think he did the right thing. If they know he’s in press silence I don’t understand why they are trying to interview him. It’s the journalist’s fault.”