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Miguel Almirón (now playing for Atlanta United)

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SUPERTOON

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13 hours ago, Yorkie said:

Joelinton injury aside, the biggest disappointment from today was that his effort hit a shit footballer's head and not the back of the net. He so deserved a goal after that performance. Love him on days like today, just an absolute pain in the arse for the opposition. 

 

In before the "found his level bants": he was just the same in Paris.

Will hopefully see it much more now that we have a better schedule and he can be rested and rotated once Barnes is back.

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Checko

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My theory is that Miggy's actually an agent planted by Staveley when she was originally looking to buy us, with instructions to keep us up, but only barely to keep the club's value as low as possible. As such he artificially limits himself by not using his right foot and now he's in too deep to change.

 

He's probably actually right footed.

 

Little bugger probably speaks perfect English and Arabic as well.

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Mattoon

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We heavily rely on the pace and energy of Miggy, great to see him back to his best albeit against a lacklustre Sunderland. We'll see much more of this Miggy now the games have slowed for us, 9 tackles, 90% pass accuracy, 10 duels won, an assist and a couple of right footed crosses to make his point (although telling that no one anticipated them).

 

Obviously we need an upgrade, but he hasn't deserved the abuse he's been getting for the last month by fans and he still has a part to play here for a few more years off the bench.

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When I see people knock Miggy it annoys me. Not because their criticism isn't correct, he is one footed, a bit of a headless chicken, frustrating in front of goal etc but....

 

We shouldn't be playing him every week. The poor fuckers game is all about pressing, forcing mistakes, running the channels, relieving pressure etc. The fact that Howe has brought him out the starting line up and weve had a bit of a rest as a squad, it's come as no surprise that we saw the old Miggy yesterday. Players need a recharge.

 

Gordon had been poor for a handful of games for the same reason...he also had that spring in his step back. The difference is that Gordon is a smarter footballer than Miggy, so can be useful at 80% or whatever.

 

I'm sure Howe never intended on Miggy playing this many games and although Murphy isn't an upgrade footballing wise, he's a good player to help Miggy have a rest.

 

We know he has limitations, but he's as reliable as you can get, if you don't over play him. 

 

It's a priority position in the summer. We need a different option to Miggy for those games when we need a bit of craft.

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Newcastle Fan

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1 hour ago, Aiston said:

Looks absolutely brilliant again.

 

Created 4 or so chances and defensively excellent so far in the 1st half.

 

Aside from last season there has never been anything brilliant about him, he did graft and work hard today but still need him to create more in the final third.

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6 minutes ago, Newcastle Fan said:

 

Aside from last season there has never been anything brilliant about him, he did graft and work hard today but still need him to create more in the final third.

 

Ay but he was good today.

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Lush Vlad

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I thought his workrate was outstanding, as always. Some of the tackles were brilliant.
 

But we had the chance to counter a few times second half and he never once made the right decision. Often had an easy enough pass on, but would look to cut back or wait for a simple 5 yarder. Hurt us a bit, I thought. As we barely got a chance to attack for those 45 minutes. 
 

Hard to criticise him for that, mind. As we know his limitations and he isn’t suddenly going to start changing at this stage of his career. 
 

Although he did try 2-3 right footed crosses. So you never know. 

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Aiston

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49 minutes ago, Newcastle Fan said:

 

Aside from last season there has never been anything brilliant about him, he did graft and work hard today but still need him to create more in the final third.

 

That's fair usually. He did create a few good chances today though.

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6 minutes ago, SUPERTOON said:

I assume at this point we have just written the season off ?

 

God only knows what is going on. You'd imagine we'll spend off the back of it.

 

Having said that, guessing there is still a big chance we don't sell any of them.

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Ronson333

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Just now, lovejoy said:

 

God only knows what is going on. You'd imagine we'll spend off the back of it.

 

Having said that, guessing there is still a big chance we don't sell any of them.

Or we are over the level required for FFP..

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