AyeDubbleYoo Posted March 15, 2024 Share Posted March 15, 2024 (edited) 2 hours ago, Beth said: If Miley is 100% fit then we should be starting him ahead of Longstaff, there's only one game a week for the rest of the season ffs. Longstaff is mid table championship standard who has played above himself but is now reverting to type. We should be peddling him to Boro for £10m in the summer. I’m uncomfortable, I agree with Beth. But harsh but the overall point is correct. Edited March 15, 2024 by AyeDubbleYoo Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thumbheed Posted March 15, 2024 Share Posted March 15, 2024 Eddie's exactly right with how he's handling Miley. You can't overload a 17 years old week in week out in a team that is çonsistently inconsistent and expect him to bare any pressure that that might bring. There's a pretty vocal crowd that's already turning on Howe, turned on Longstaff and Burn and after 3-4 poor games from Miley will turn on him too. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jagten Posted March 15, 2024 Share Posted March 15, 2024 2 hours ago, Tiotes Witch Doctor said: He's better than a championship player, could definitely be a starting CM at anyone from 13th downwards IMO. Agreed, but I don't think he's an obvious starter for anyone outside of the bottom three. The standard of the league is extremely high, and his function is heavily dependent on the system. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ridman Posted March 17, 2024 Share Posted March 17, 2024 (edited) He has played full 90 minutes in 11 of our last 12 premier league games, having minimal affect and ghosting around the field looking so far from his best. Think our midfield has been very poor recently, so easy to play through and our ball retention has been awful with little improvement over the past months. Clearly something isn't clicking with the current setup and I really hope we try something different in the next games, can't see the harm in sticking Anderson or Hall in there instead of Longstaff. Edited March 17, 2024 by Ridman Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newcastle Fan Posted March 17, 2024 Share Posted March 17, 2024 He has been so bad lately yet keeps getting selected, even young Miley looks far better than him in midfield and Anderson earlier in the season proved he can add something, yet i don't doubt he'll be starting again in two weeks time. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gbandit Posted March 17, 2024 Share Posted March 17, 2024 The strange thing is that he could take Sean out of the team on account of playing through an injury and not damage Sean’s confidence. I just think Howe doesn’t like to change things unless he’s had a lot of time to work through things positionally with an alternative. It takes him ages to bring it into a match and even after several successful match performances he doesn’t like to persist with it. Given that our season is effectively a bit of a free hit for seventh at this point, without a huge amount riding on it, we should be playing Anderson and Hall for serious chunks of time unless there’s something glaringly missing for us fans that we’re not aware of Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Menace Posted March 17, 2024 Share Posted March 17, 2024 We'd be no worse off playing 442 last month or 2 rather than this passenger to be honest. If he is indeed injured as Howe says, it's even more baffling why he then plays him full 90.. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lush Vlad Posted March 17, 2024 Share Posted March 17, 2024 2 hours ago, gbandit said: The strange thing is that he could take Sean out of the team on account of playing through an injury and not damage Sean’s confidence. I just think Howe doesn’t like to change things unless he’s had a lot of time to work through things positionally with an alternative. It takes him ages to bring it into a match and even after several successful match performances he doesn’t like to persist with it. Given that our season is effectively a bit of a free hit for seventh at this point, without a huge amount riding on it, we should be playing Anderson and Hall for serious chunks of time unless there’s something glaringly missing for us fans that we’re not aware of I agree with this. I’m actually partly relieved that it was confirmed he was playing through an injury. As plenty of people thought that was the case and whilst I’m not his biggest fan. The drop off from last season was alarming and unexplainable, other than him carrying an injury. I know Willock and Anderson are not long back from injury and Miley is just a kid and needed a break. But I do hope Anderson and Miley start getting some meaningful minutes in place of Longstaff moving forward. Especially as we now have two weeks until our next game. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackyboy Posted March 17, 2024 Share Posted March 17, 2024 I think that Tonali was a massive piece of the jigsaw for us and not having him available has damaged us beyond belief Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anon Posted March 17, 2024 Share Posted March 17, 2024 Even the commentators said yesterday that they’d barely mentioned his name. he definitely has a valuable set of assets for the team but being forced to use him game in game out when not all the games are suited to him isn’t doing anyone a favour. He definitely falls into the category of player Howe was talking about shouldn’t be getting as much stick as he’s been asking them to play when they otherwise might not have been fit and ready. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fezzle Posted March 17, 2024 Share Posted March 17, 2024 It's no coincidence we looked better and more comfortable when him and burn went off. Of course the city team were already on a night out by then but both were laughable when it was a game. Nobody will convince me it was the right team/game plan with his injury and form yesterday. Totally anonymous Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sempuki Posted March 17, 2024 Share Posted March 17, 2024 Linked with Leeds (if they get promoted) for £15m in the Sunday Mirror. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gbandit Posted March 17, 2024 Share Posted March 17, 2024 Just now, sempuki said: Linked with Leeds (if they get promoted) for £15m in the Sunday Mirror. I would 100% sell for £15m even though he’s a very loyal player who would continue to do his best for us. As a squad player he would have utility but his main asset is being homegrown, that should never be the principal reason for keeping someone Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 17, 2024 Share Posted March 17, 2024 Take it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikky Posted March 17, 2024 Share Posted March 17, 2024 1 hour ago, gbandit said: I would 100% sell for £15m even though he’s a very loyal player who would continue to do his best for us. As a squad player he would have utility but his main asset is being homegrown, that should never be the principal reason for keeping someone We can replace him with Joe White as the homegrown talent? The midfield needs rebuilding - we will get Tonali and Big Joe back but we need another addition to solidify it - Ederson been linked for a while - that’s the profile we need - someone who plays all 3 midfield roles (I have seen him play loads as can vouch for this) - gives us all the tactical felexibility we need, power, pace, passing, pressing - the 4Ps Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Prontonise Posted March 17, 2024 Share Posted March 17, 2024 Apparently he's been playing through an injury and getting injections but I don't understand that he's been starting still while we have gotten some options back. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lush Vlad Posted March 17, 2024 Share Posted March 17, 2024 5 minutes ago, El Prontonise said: Apparently he's been playing through an injury and getting injections but I don't understand that he's been starting still while we have gotten some options back. Willock has been out most the season, Anderson supposedly was barely ready to do 5-10 mins against Blackburn. So guessing he hasn’t been an option from the start? Miley seems to blowout after a half/55 mins. If he keeps starting after the international break and putting in such nothing performances. Then it would be a real head scratcher. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zero Posted March 17, 2024 Share Posted March 17, 2024 (edited) We have been scratching for Burn already. Edited March 17, 2024 by Zero Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRon Posted March 17, 2024 Share Posted March 17, 2024 2 hours ago, sempuki said: Linked with Leeds (if they get promoted) for £15m in the Sunday Mirror. Good move for everyone, not too far from home so Sean won't feel too homesick. Here's hoping Leeds get promoted. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PauloGeordio Posted March 19, 2024 Share Posted March 19, 2024 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turnbull2000 Posted March 19, 2024 Share Posted March 19, 2024 (edited) He hasn't been great, but £15m in today's market is taking the piss. Add another £5m at least. Edited March 19, 2024 by Turnbull2000 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRC Posted March 19, 2024 Share Posted March 19, 2024 3 minutes ago, Turnbull2000 said: He hasn't been great, but £15m in today's market is taking the piss. Add another £5m at least. We had the chance to sell him once and got greedy, don't make the same mistake again. He's an average PL footballer 15m to 20m seems reasonable. You can replace what he does for a lot cheaper. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkie Posted March 19, 2024 Share Posted March 19, 2024 Yeah I'd expect us to squeeze more than £15m out of someone. Like him or not he's played 99% of Premier League games so he's worth more to us than that. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted March 19, 2024 Share Posted March 19, 2024 (edited) If I was someone else, I don't think he's a good buy for £25m or higher. You could probably get one of the Blackburn midfielders that bossed him for that. Prices are always a bit random but I don't think he can form part of a reliable PL midfield unless his colleagues are extremely fit and fast. And even then he will give the ball away because of his lack of technical quality, balance and agility. That said, I'm not against keeping him as a squad player as long as he doesn't start too much and the options around him are better. Edited March 19, 2024 by AyeDubbleYoo Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colos Short and Curlies Posted March 19, 2024 Share Posted March 19, 2024 Sell Longstaff Promote Miley to the Longstaff squad role (as Longstaff should be now) Promote White to the Miley role providing cover off the bench Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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