Let's just keep him as a super sub for the first part of the season, 20-30 minutes against tiring teams. Let him acclimatise to men's football at the highest level.
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Player Mikey Moore
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Best thing for him is to go on loan. If he is really that talented, we shouldn't be leaving him on the bench. He needs play time.
With Son and Wilson injured he is literally our back up winger to Werner.
You proved my point. Backup to Werner? Might as well go somewhere else and play if you are behind Werner. I would.
At that age, it’s too young. Even our 19 year olds struggle on loan in general and it’s not due to a lack of talent. Maybe a loan in the 26/27 season but by then if he fulfils even half his potential he’ll be too good for us to let go.
I'm more worried about him getting a good balance of playing time while optimizing his physical development. Playing a ton of minutes as a winger in the rough and tumble Premiership is nasty work and very hard on your body.
Moore certainly deserves opportunities, but he does not need things like back to back starts and being thrown in against the very toughest opposition just yet.
He needs to be building up his body and conditioning to the point that hes able to take big hits without suffering long-term injury, and learning how to play effectively while also staying healthy and out of dangerous challenges- things like that that can help him have a long and productive career.
Oh yea- he's clearly good enough to simply stay at our club and join the attacking rotation at LW/RW. Based on what we've seen so far I don't really see any point in sending him out on loan- he knows how to attack and be dangerous at a Champo/Premiership level already. If that's the case though we do need to commit to giving him regular minutest to continue his development- but it seems like that won't be a problem as Ange has featured him in the last three games already.
Mikey Moore was 17 in September - body still growing although he's already a decent size - so Spurs need to ensure his minutes are managed. My guess is Ange may target him to play say 1,000 to 1,500 minutes this season, but choosing when to play him.
So far Mikey's getting the right sort of number of minutes :
EL - 2 starts and one off bench ........ 183 mins
PL - four sub appearances off bench..... 83 mins
Carabou Cup - v Man City tonight ............22 mins
So he's played almost 300 minutes so far this season, and its end of October, so 7 months remaining of the season,
He'll probably start 3/4/5 more EL matches in League stage (ie before Feb) and now he's started one PL game, he'll get a few others.
This season is his first real season with first team (last season he played a handful of minutes), so its all about getting more and more experience this season. And he's doing very well.
So far Mikey's getting the right sort of number of minutes :
EL - 2 starts and one off bench ........ 183 mins
PL - four sub appearances off bench..... 83 mins
Carabou Cup - v Man City tonight ............22 mins
So he's played almost 300 minutes so far this season, and its end of October, so 7 months remaining of the season,
He'll probably start 3/4/5 more EL matches in League stage (ie before Feb) and now he's started one PL game, he'll get a few others.
This season is his first real season with first team (last season he played a handful of minutes), so its all about getting more and more experience this season. And he's doing very well.
Ange saying he had a virus 3-4 weeks ago but is still out and will be for a bit.
Must have been more than a basic virus presumably?
Must have been more than a basic virus presumably?
I've had a virus of some kind recently.... Been wasted for a couple of weeks...... Some real grim shit around atm.
The common cold or flu going around this year is pretty rough- I’m recovering myself. Garlic and hot fluids have helped immensely. Feel better.
Virus bullshit, no fucking flu or virus lays out a healthy young lad for a month and longer.
It’s something they don’t want to disclose so a ‘virus’ is the way to explain his absence.
It’s something they don’t want to disclose so a ‘virus’ is the way to explain his absence.
Is that Mikey Moore’s Nick name?
Asked Postecoglou how Mikey Moore is after he said he'll be back by the turn of the year: "Look, I come out here and I want to be as transparent as I can, but this is a 17-year-old boy. I don't like talking about what they have and what they don't have.
"It's nothing serious, but you know, he's 17. We're going to take our time, and I don't like this kind of constant, not from you by the way, but I've just heard other bits and pieces of people speculating, Come on. I mean, like, if it's your 17-year-old son, you don't want everyone to know what he has or hasn't got. It's nothing serious. It's nothing long-term.
It's just that he's a young lad and he's only 17, and he's a big part of this football club, and we will protect him, and we'll be guided by how he feels, how he recovers from, you know, an illness. Like I said, young people will recover at different rates. He'll be back. He's still here. he's He's part of what we're doing, and he'll be back in the next few weeks, but again he's missed a lot of football
"So whether we bring him back the first team or he needs to play, we've got to bear in mind that he's 17."
"It's nothing serious, but you know, he's 17. We're going to take our time, and I don't like this kind of constant, not from you by the way, but I've just heard other bits and pieces of people speculating, Come on. I mean, like, if it's your 17-year-old son, you don't want everyone to know what he has or hasn't got. It's nothing serious. It's nothing long-term.
It's just that he's a young lad and he's only 17, and he's a big part of this football club, and we will protect him, and we'll be guided by how he feels, how he recovers from, you know, an illness. Like I said, young people will recover at different rates. He'll be back. He's still here. he's He's part of what we're doing, and he'll be back in the next few weeks, but again he's missed a lot of football
"So whether we bring him back the first team or he needs to play, we've got to bear in mind that he's 17."