I’m gonna buck the trend here and say I reckon we can do a lot better and we need to do a lot better if we want to push up the table.

30 games… 1 goal… 0 assists last season

I get that people think he might come good under Howe, but if that is the case he has shown no sign of improving under Howe and a lot of other players did… so if not already, then when?

His overall record… 9 goals and 3 assists in 109 Prem games… Schar had the same goals and assists in less than 90 games… and that was under the same managers and situation Miggy had to deal with, so Bruce etc isn’t an excuse, and when a defender has the same end product as an attacking player then it’s got to raise questions.

His overall career stats are pretty poor, best spell he ever had was in the MLS (where we brought him over from)… but let’s be honest, that’s not a great league and probably isn’t even as good as the Fizzy in terms of overall quality of teams (there’s a few big names there, but they are at the end of their careers)

Seems a lovely bloke, smiles a lot and runs a lot… and am sure he’s very popular in the dressing room… but at the best he’s a squad player and no more.