Douglas Henderson of jambos.net writes:
With regards to Miller, I’m beginning to run out of superlatives to use for this guy. To think that we may have ended up with Crawford instead doesn’t bear thinking about. All I can really say to the whole episode is thank Christ for ‘ambition’, otherwise we’d have a knackered old boiler instead of an energy efficient central heating system.
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Miller, for me, is a tremendous prospect who is getting better with each passing week, and has many years in the game still ahead of him. He lead the line superbly once again for Hearts, winning headers that de Vries would have cringed at going for. I would even go as far as to say that he looks like being the best striker at the club since John Robertson himself was still a player. Chances are that the man is enjoying a purple patch, but he hasn’t even been with us for a month yet! As far as I’m concerned, Hibs can keep their wee Deeks, Boozy, Mick and Titch; we got Miller time, Hartley’s Jam and Gordon’s Gin!
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Wherever the on-loan Bristol City striker’s career takes him, he will struggle to better this goal-of-the-season contender, his stunning right-foot half volley from 20 yards crashing in off the crossbar.
New Hearts owner Vladimir Romanov took a majority 29.9% shareholding in the club a fortnight ago and has promised investment. He also owns Lithuanian club FBK Kaunas and Belarussian club, MTZ RIPO Minsk forming a triangular structure, under the umbrella of his International Football Development Fund, that will help him to place his football assets where required. He has already started bringing in Lithuanian players and is likely to be prepared to invest heavily in the summer. I feel that he will make an offer for Lee Miller that Steve Lansdown will be forced to accept, hopefully it will be equal to or more than the £325,000 City paid Falkirk for Lee in July 2003.
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Miller, who has scored five times since joining Hearts from Bristol City in the January transfer window, admits he is enjoying his time in Gorgie after being frozen out down south.
He said: "It's good to get a game, my confidence is high, the team is playing brilliant and I'm flying at the moment. I learned a lot down there and it opened my eyes to English football, but I just want to play games. They had a change of manager and Brian Tinnion obviously wants his own faces in."
"He's a player manager and he's been there 10 years. It was okay when we were playing together and he's okay with me now, but obviously he wants to build his own team and I don't know whether I'm part of that."
Good luck Lee, but I have a feeling that we will not see you in a City shirt again and fear that me may watch as your talent emerges and we will be left thinking what might have been.
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