Tottenham have sold 21-year-old attacking midfielder William Miller to Championship side Burton Albion after both clubs agreed terms for a 2-year deal.
Miller, a former actor who rose to fame as an 11-year-old upcoming act chosen to play the role of Oliver Twist in BBC One’s Christmas adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic in December 2007, spent last season on loan with the Nigel Clough-led Brewers, playing 15 league games and scoring once.
Miller arrived Tottenham from Leyton Orient Miller in 2012, featuring regularly for Spur’s Under-16 and working his way through the ranks until signing a professional deal in 2015.
The uncapped England youth international featured for Tottenham’s U21 before getting loaned out last summer.
While the one-time screen prodigy bides his time as far as having his football career match his acting career goes, he would definitely be afforded the chance to further grow in leaps and bounds at Burton.
Clough is keen to have Miller back, enthusing: “Will was great to have around the place last year and improved with us so we took the chance to get him back and be part of the squad – you can’t have too many strikers in The Championship and he can play wide as well.”
Could Oliver Twist make Spurs come back to ask for more of him in the coming years as he hopes to impress and earn a spot in Burton’s starting XI?
