What next for highly-rated Motherwell teenager Miller?

With the transportation model open, 1 of the large stories successful Scottish shot is the aboriginal of Motherwell teen Lennon Miller.

The 18-year-old midfielder has conscionable 1 twelvemonth near connected his Fir Park deal, which means it is the club's last accidental to get a important interest for different palmy academy player.

Miller has turned heads successful the past 2 seasons successful peculiar aft initially making his debut six days aft his 16th day successful August 2022.

Last word helium captained Motherwell respective times and had different good campaign, which culminated successful his archetypal Scotland headdress and start.

His dada Lee, himself a erstwhile footballer, joked astatine an SPFL lawsuit marking the merchandise of the caller season's fixtures that "there's a antithetic nine each day" mentioned online arsenic his son's adjacent move.

However, arsenic yet determination person been nary bids made. But what mightiness the aboriginal clasp for Scottish football's brightest young talent?

Clearly an 18-year-old who has played 76 first-team games, captained his club, and made his planetary debut possesses endowment which is going to pull attention.

Since his debut Miller's adjacent control, passing range, and imaginativeness person caught the eye.

Clubs crossed the satellite are information driven, ever looking for young players with affirmative numbers who tin beryllium bought astatine a comparatively debased price, developed, and sold on.

A look astatine immoderate of the numbers for cardinal midfielders successful the Scottish Premiership past play demonstrates wherefore Miller would look successful tons of databases.

Already an adept set-piece taker, Miller grabbed 8 assists for Motherwell, a tally lone bettered by Rangers' Nicolas Raskin among cardinal midfielders successful the league.

Mostly a deeper-lying midfielder, helium was deployed arsenic 1 of 2 fig 10s successful the aboriginal portion of the run for Motherwell, and ranked 3rd among midfielders for chances created by the extremity of the season, arsenic good arsenic deliveries into the box.

As for the dirtier broadside of the game, lone Celtic skipper Callum McGregor won the shot backmost much times than Miller.

The teen was besides the astir fouled cardinal midfielder successful the league, a motion to his quality to usage his assemblage to support the shot successful choky spaces, and his dribbling prowess too.

His passing accuracy arsenic a full is further down the charts, which hints astatine an country for development, but Motherwell's nonstop benignant and Miller's inclination to play riskier passes guardant could besides beryllium down the little figure.

Of people idiosyncratic statistic are not themselves the ground for signing players.

But what has been striking astir Miller has been the calmness and assurance with which helium has played since his debut.

He has often been keen to instrumentality responsibility, for illustration scoring an injury-time punishment against Dundee United to nonstop Motherwell to the semi-finals of the League Cup.

Miller was likewise unbothered by his archetypal Scotland commencement against Liechtenstein, putting successful a standout display.

"He makes shot look casual careless of what crippled helium plays in," his Motherwell team-mate Tony Watt posted connected X aft that game.

Miller and his dada person ever maintained playing regularly is the priority.

Moving distant from these shores mightiness beryllium his champion accidental to bash that, portion others besides deliberation it would beryllium a bully acceptable for his game.

Both Udinese and Union Saint-Gilloise reportedly had bids rejected for Miller successful January, and they volition improbable to beryllium the past offers coming in.

Talented young Scottish players person progressively looked to determination overseas successful caller seasons.

Whether it is Aaron Hickey and Lewis Ferguson enhancing their careers portion playing astatine Bologna, oregon Max Johnston tasting rubric occurrence and Champions League shot aft leaving Motherwell for Sturm Graz successful Austria, the template is there.

Others similar caller Scotland debutants Josh Doig and Andy Irving person besides progressed successful their careers done playing regularly abroad, portion determination is the power of much elder players Scott McTominay and Billy Gilmour astatine Napoli.

"Lennon's adjacent determination is truthful important, due to the fact that a batch of players volition get sucked into going to conscionable a monolithic nine and going, right, I've arrived," dada Lee said.

"But determination needs to beryllium a batch of thought process, and determination has been a batch of thought process of his adjacent move, due to the fact that it's a improvement determination again.

"This is what we planned retired for him, successful presumption of playing loads of games successful the archetypal team, doing truly well, and it's connected him to bash that.

"There was a pathway determination astatine Motherwell, and the adjacent one, for me, is important due to the fact that helium has to play, helium has to develop, helium has to past footwear connected again.

"Once he's circular astir amended players, nary disrespect to the Motherwell players, but erstwhile he's circular astir apical people elite players, helium volition past footwear connected again, successful my opinion.

"And I deliberation helium has that interior belief, and it's not arrogance, it's conscionable a belief. And helium wants to play football."

Lots of Scottish teenagers person moved to Premier League academies earlier adjacent playing a first-team crippled since Brexit, but Miller has chosen a antithetic path.

And fixed his dad's comments astir overmuch helium relishes playing regularly, a determination to the apical level successful England seems little likely.

The lone Premier League broadside linked truthful acold is newly-promoted Sunderland, external.

With the club's proprietor Kyril Louis-Dreyfus employing a strategy focused connected young players, positive the record merchantability of Jobe Bellingham to Borussia Dortmund, it makes consciousness they would beryllium funny successful Miller.

Whether it materialises into an connection remains to beryllium seen.

The Premiership champions are the lone Scottish nine talked astir erstwhile it comes to signing Miller from Motherwell.

A young Scottish subordinate with tons of imaginable is precisely the benignant of signing Celtic would anticipation to make, particularly fixed the deficiency of academy players making the archetypal squad successful the past fewer years.

But with 32-year-old McGregor inactive the undisputed archetypal prime astatine the basal of Brendan Rodgers' midfield three, it could travel down to however overmuch clip connected the transportation Miller thinks helium would get.

That, and whether Celtic can, oregon privation to, conscionable Motherwell's asking terms successful a perchance competitory market.

For Miller's portion helium has stayed arsenic calm arsenic ever astir what the aboriginal holds.

"I've got a twelvemonth near connected my declaration truthful my absorption is to spell backmost into pre-season, enactment arsenic hard arsenic I tin and get acceptable for the season," helium said aft his archetypal Scotland start.

"You get these large clubs mentioned, but it is lone speculation.

"You conscionable request to effort and absorption connected what you're doing and that volition each instrumentality attraction of itself."