Adam Johnson: Joining Manchester City is bad for your career

[MC ID]

Shearer giving it to Johnno after his latest crap performance.

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"You could argue Sunderland were also playing with 10 given Adam Johnson’s performance. I don’t remember him making a run, beating a man or getting a cross in.

"Some questioned Roberto Mancini for not playing him often enough at Manchester City. He certainly seemed to have the potential to make it with them.

"Mancini said so himself, which is why he was often hard on him when he questioned his workrate. But in the end he decided to cash in.

"This was a new start, the regular football Johnson craved.

"He has had a few niggles yes, but you have to wonder whether that potential he has will ever be fulfilled."

Shearers right on the money with that I think, though it's not exactly a revolutionary opinion he's holding.

 

[SuperYaya]

"It’s not that you’re not good enough, it’s just that the likes of Yaya Toure are going to play ahead of you, no matter what you do.”

I'm sorry, what? So if Adam Johnson had suddenly started performing like Ronaldo, he wouldn't play week in week out? I'm sorry but 'no matter what you do' is bollocks. Why would we even sign players if we didn't have the intention of playing them given a big improvement?<br /><br />-- Mon Oct 22, 2012 3:57 pm --<br /><br />I lied I'm not sorry.

 

[sergiokun]

Looked piss poor vs Newcastle

 

[TBooksbluearmy]

So Adam Johnson say's a move to Man City is bad for your career. So if winning a Premier League Winners Medal + An F.A. Cup Winners Medal + the Charity Shield Winners Medal was a bad move for him, then I suggest that he gives them back to Manchester City Football Club. The guy is a complete idiot, any player would move to Man City if he felt that he could win something.

 

[Wexford Blue]

Similar story to when we got rid of 'bright, young, up and coming British manager' Hughes. It's the easy story and doesn't require anyone to look beyond the headlines. The truth will usually out...

The same is true in reverse, Milner and Barry get few plaudits despite being regularly excellent for us, but if we got rid, it'd be 'evil City, mistreating established England internationals'.

There's no agenda.. the press are just mainly lazy arseholes who write what they think the majority want to read. There are a few exceptions though.

Mancini would have turned Johnson into a real player, if the raw materials (mental and physical) were there. They weren't, so he didn't.

 

[VOOMER]

i reckon when he looks back at his career,he will think to himself,you know wht if only i worked as hard as i could do,i would of won loads at city and had a long england career,its only a matter of time before he finds his attitude level and it wont be in the prem.

Couldn't agree more.
Saturday was his time to shine, prove he could do it in a big game, show everyone what he's about.
Yet he performed as he did every time he got a start for City in a telling game. Offered nothing, was largely absent from play. Was not an outlet or an option for his team mates and was eventually replaced without even coming close to influencing the game.

The chap in front of me was a big Johnson fan, loved him. Always screaming get AJ on, I would always ask him, for who? Silva? Aguero? Nasri? Why?
Ironically he also rates Kolarov as the worst left bacvk we've had.
I took great pleasure in pointing out to him that Kolarov is not the first left back to influence the game beyond all reasonable levels whilst marking Johnson.

Our worst ever left back(according to some) not only marked Johnson out of the game, but scored and played his best game ever(probably). I guarantee that Jimmy Kebe, Wayne Routledge, Lloyd Dyer would all have given Kolarov a tougher game.

Lets hope Johnson can concentrate on his own game, improve immensely and become a Sunderland regular. I doubt he will, and I see him making one more backwards step in the Prem before finding his level in the Championship.

As one poster stated, Mancini demands winners, not players who need a hug, winners are winners they don't need managers to tell them every week how good they are.
Keegan, O'Neill, Arry all great blokes great motivators will all make you feel 10ft tall but have won about 2 pots between them.

And spent about £500 million between them to do so!

 

[Wexford Blue]

And spent about £500 million between them to do so!

Mancini - Winner as player and manager.
'Arry - Will put his arm around you. Currently on dole.

 

[sergiokun]

So Adam Johnson say's a move to Man City is bad for your career. So if winning a Premier League Winners Medal + An F.A. Cup Winners Medal + the Charity Shield Winners Medal was a bad move for him, then I suggest that he gives them back to Manchester City Football Club. The guy is a complete idiot, any player would move to Man City if he felt that he could win something.

This


He is just bitter mate

 

[Kippaxgirl]

What a whiney-butt. If he had spent as much effort in training and improving his play as he apparently did in the pubs and clubs of Manchester, he would have been in the side on a more regular basis. He was getting paid to be a professional but failed to act like one.

 

[StanGibsonspitchfork]

So Adam Johnson say's a move to Man City is bad for your career. So if winning a Premier League Winners Medal + An F.A. Cup Winners Medal + the Charity Shield Winners Medal was a bad move for him, then I suggest that he gives them back to Manchester City Football Club. The guy is a complete idiot, any player would move to Man City if he felt that he could win something.

Well said. He had enough chances given to him that he didn't take at the club. End of story.