Miguel Almiron was Newcastle’s deadly weapon – no matter what Jack Grialish said

Since Miguel Almiron is preparing to say goodbye to Newcastle United, it is the right time to have a player who was not the best wing player to have worn the black and white stripes, but did not work harder or cared.

This is more important than the modern fan that ever seems ready to accept. At least in the split world of social media, in which it is more common that the defects of a player are punished than his qualities.

Almiron had its limits, especially as a right wing player with his left foot, who could not cross the ball with his weaker foot. He did not score enough goals or delivered enough templates to be seen as an elite Premier League winger, but he had pace and perseverance and never gave less than anything.

As strange as it may sound, that is a rare and precious thing. A player who just loved playing. A Paraguayan, whose command of the English language has never been more than easy, even though he arrived six years ago, and the instinctive understood what his essence is all about.

Like everyone, I occasionally moaned and moan during a game over Almiron. For example, this time against AC Milan when he tried to knock his left foot home if he should have walked with his right to clarify the defender.

Or the promising attack positions wasted when he decided not to trust the quality of his rights, and the chances of being missing from the goalkeeper with weak shots, but for 21 million pound-a club-right fee when Rafael Benítez in January 2019 signed -Almiron was still a fantastic price -performance ratio.

The 30-year-old once brought so much energy into the team and put a defensive shift and an attacking.

He was not only a crucial part of the page that avoided descent for three years under Benítez and Steve Bruce, he was excellent under Eddie Howe for two years. Without him, Newcastle would not have qualified for the Champions League in 2023.

We are constantly told that all Newcastle fans are a player who tries to wear the shirt with the same pride. Inserts it in sweat and takes care of the team as much as you. “What Miggy” did all of these things and combined them with an infectious smile that made it impossible to like it, even if he made mistakes.

You will not hear a bad word about Almiron from teammates or employees. He was worshiped behind the scenes.

He didn’t have a bad or malicious word for anyone. He never shook or complained-this season, when it became clear that he had rejected a move to Saudi Arabia last summer that he was no longer part of Howe’s first team plans.

His manager referred to him as a “model professional” and during his entire time together he always commented on his virtues instead of snapping his disadvantages.

Newcastle could not have been able to cope without almiron when howe arrived for the first time. Kieran Trippier loved playing with him when he was in the right -back because he knew that Almiron would always gallop to help him.

It was Howe who triggered the full potential of Almiron. He was a willing and reliable work animal as part of his two former managers who arrived from Atlanta United in January 2019, but Howe transformed him into a fatal weapon in the 2022-23 campaign.

Almiron as a offer of peace of the former owner Mike Ashley, who unsuccessfully freed a combative and angry Benítez, was better than any of the wingers in the club.

With Allan Saint-Maximin on the left and Almiron on the right, Newcastle had a decent couple on the flanks under his successor Bruce. Saint-Maximin won with his skills and flair games for Newcastle, but Almiren’s less striking role was just as important for the team’s overall bar. Saint-Maximin has rarely traced back that Almiron would do all this.

Who could forget the noise and celebrations when Almiron scored his first goal for Newcastle, a deceased winner against Crystal Palace, in his second season in the club? Or the two, which he in the FA Cup against West Bromwich Albion, when Bruce was under pressure, scored from his home against West Bromwich Albion.

However, it was Howe who brought his game to another level in 2022. Almiron was great for 18 months.

Last summer by Jack Grialish, who had ridiculed his teammate of Manchester City, Riyan Mahre by saying that his performance was so bad, “he had played like Almiron” during her title party celebrations, Almiron replied with expertise.

In August he achieved a dip volley from an acute angle in August in a dramatic 3: 3 draw with City and two other away numbers to Fulham, which included a candidate of the season .

He scored 11 goals this season and formed a fatal partnership with a trip in Newcastle’s Right Flank. In fact, most of the Newcastles football was played on this side of the field, they were so effective in the violation of pages.

Almiron missed Newcastle’s best chance of playing Manchester United in the last defeat this season, but it has been an integral part of the best Newcastle team for more than 20 years. People have to remember and, which is even more important, respect him for it.

Just like nobody the goal he scored against Paris St-Germain, the crucial first in Newcastle’s first Champions League game in two decades, which started 4-1 against the French champions. That alone should be enough to ensure that Almiron is always celebrated when he returns to Tyneside.

Almiron’s time in Newcastle is over; He goes back to Atlanta. It is older and the club continues to develop. There are better players out there in his position that Newcastle wants to sign in summer.

But when a player deserved ovations in Southampton last weekend, flanked by his teammates, who were pushed forward by Howe to sing his name over and over again, it is “Wor Miggy”. “La La, La, La, La, La, La Miggy Almiron, Almiron, Miggy Almiron …”

The defense may have never been scared or indeed on fire, but Newcastle won the games that they played under three different managers because they had it on their side. He is not only a long -time player, he was also a successful one.

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