I can understand why some would want to cut our losses now. I personally still feel that he needs more game time before we write him off completely. You can tell he still trying too hard and overthinking. It would be nice to see what he can do when he’s more comfortable and calm. He’s almost too desperate to prove himself that it’s effecting his performance quite significantly.I love my duracell bunny but he just runs into too many blind alleys and isn't clinical enough. I'd love him to come good but kind of expect him to go in January.
Possibly, yeah. But if all you're doing is bringing energy, maybe it's not a place for you.Bit of strange to rate, did a lot wrong as you point out, but thought his energy rubbed to the rest of team making team perform better when he came on.
Hard to kick on when youre not playing regularlyStill feel there’s a player in there, but he’s really not kicking on. Some players - especially slight technical ones - take a while to bed in. And although he’s been here a while loans/manager changes/injuries have robbed him of a good run at the team.
But honestly I’m really worried that if he can’t make an impact now with a manager of Ange’s style and with how threadbare the squad is, that he might never make it. Deki’s suspension and Son going to the Asian Cup feels quite last chance saloon, let’s hope he takes it.
Exactly what I said. There has been lots of mitigating factors as to why he’s not played regularly with us yet, but he has a real chance over this next few weeks to stake his claim finally. But if he plays like he did tonight in this period I think he’s off by January 31 sadly.Hard to kick on when youre not playing regularly
Hard to play regularly when you're giving the ball away and keep running down blind alleys.Hard to kick on when youre not playing regularly
Someone on here said Johnson is the ultimate ‘flatters to deceive’ player. I disagree. It’s this guy. He often looks sharp and has a low centre of gravity which makes him look skilful, but he contributes nothing. His stats are horrendous for an attacking player. 2 goals and 4 assists in 76 appearances over three seasons. He’s massively regressed too - in the season before we signed him (when he was only 19/20) he had 7 goal contributions in 29 appearances.
That was me. Forgot about Gill, looks like we have two of them!
I’m just a bit shocked that he’s made 76 appearances! Even if most are from the bench.
I don't think they are for us are they?
Honestly this guy sucks and the people still hopeful he will come good have that hope out of the most incredible will, determination and stubbornness because he’s so clearly terrible. Being able to jink about a bit because you’re the weight of a bag of skips does not make you technically good. He’s technically average. He doesn’t pass or strike the ball well, his first touch is nothing more than average. He does nothing more than a few jinky runs per match and simple sideways passes. If he’s asked to do anything out of the ordinary that would require you to have actual talent he fails miserably. As you can probably tell I don’t think I’ve rated a young expensive signing lower than I do this guy for quite a while.