- May 15, 2018
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You all are far too reactionary.
He's not good enough to be a starter for us long term. His technical ability is just not good enough. He doesn't strike a ball well. He can't beat players 1v1 consistently. The comparison(s) to Bale is absolutely ridiculous - Bale was a one of a kind phenom who had incredible strength, pace, and could strike a football unlike just about anyone else in the world. Johnson is a winger with a bit of pace who happened to have found his shooting boots and the ball at his feet more often in the past few weeks than the year before that.
I'm very happy for him to be having a little purple patch here and that he is able to showcase his worth considering some of the absolutely unwarranted vitriol he was getting. You could tell his mental health was in a bad place, so this is the best way he could have responded.
But he has not changed as a player in the last month or so. He's just not good enough as a footballer to be anything more than a squad option.
I fully expect to be downvoted for this post, but we can quote it a couple months from now whenever we hit our next patch of bad form and he gets back to being a scapegoat.
The "little purple patch" continues on!