A former spectacular midfielder for Rotherham United admits to being depressed due to a lack of playing time.
After helping the Millers to a notable League One promotion and Papa John’s Trophy double towards the end of previous campaign – a season when he found the net on ten occasions – the Swinton lad readily accepts that he was not prepared for what came next.
Now with Huddersfield Town, the midfielder, who joined the Terriers in late August for a seven-figure fee, now looks back on that time as a learning curve and a reminder that things can soon change in football.
Wiles was the subject of several big-money bids from Burnle in the summer of 2022, which were rejected by Rotherham and candidly admits that things affected him for a time last year.
To compound matters, a testing season from a personal perspective would take another significant turn for the worse when he suffered a serious ankle injury in the Millers’ Boxing Day fixture against Stoke City which required surgery and ruled him out until mid-April.
The fates have decreed that Wiles is now stepping out in the blue and white of Huddersfield and not the claret and blue of Burnley in the Premier League.
Water has gone under the bridge in the past year or so and the 24-year-old is admirably not thinking about what might have been.
Now with Huddersfield Town, the midfielder, who joined the Terriers in late August for a seven-figure fee, now looks back on that time as a learning curve and a reminder that things can soon change in football.
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