Adam Johnson's Borrowed Time

Never rated him at all. Flash in the pan player.

He can score a goal and do nothing for 89mins. He does not want to get involved and as someone said previously I think he believe in his own hype, and that of the press ...You cant claim a good performance on a goal. Thats only reason why people rated him.

I think he is one to go. He is a good player but I don't think he's get in any other top 4 or 5 side. His decision making is woeful
 
FantasyIreland said:
Watching Valencia,and even Young,tonight tells me all i need to know about Johnsons quality.

Johnson is closer to the washed up Damien Duff in quality than Valencia. Slow, predictable, and easily dealt with.
 
Johnson is very much a 'Match of The Day' player. Other fans would think we're mad for criticising him because his 1:30mins of trickery on MoTD suggests he had a blinder, whereas we all know that was it for the 90. Had massive potential to be a very good player but, like others have said, inflated sense of self worth fuelled by the media have made Johnson impervious to Mancini's wisdom and advice and he is probably destined for an average Premier League career sprinkled with a few more england caps and a lot of time on Thursday nights on Ch5. Shame.
 
FantasyIreland said:
grim up north said:
Which opposition?

The majority we play at home as parking the bus is a popular tactic,our goal difference would be even more impressive.

Saying that,i'd love a formation such as.....

-------------DJ------------
Valencia-Yaya--Silva-Lavezzi
-----------Aguero-----------

So no crosses then, since Aguero is a midget?
 
Guess those who said Johnson "likes a drink" weren't far off the mark?


<a class="postlink" href="http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/city-hope-gifted-johnson-can-clean-up-his-act-7661631.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/foot ... 61631.html</a>

Manchester City's Adam Johnson may have to convince his club that he is capable of putting football before his lifestyle if he is to be retained beyond the end of this season.

Johnson is City's single world-class wide player but the club are still looking for evidence that he has the necessary application to go with the ability which makes him appreciated at the highest levels within the Etihad Stadium as a type of City player who is unlike any other.

There is a deeply held conviction at City that a generation of top players, including Stephen Ireland and Michael Johnson, has been lost because those players could not find the application to go with their talents. The City academy is built around attempts to create more rounded individuals who will not let their talents go to waste in the same way. Johnson has received the City message, to an extent.

The club perceives a calmer, more professional approach to life as the 24-year-old has started to adapt his lifestyle in line with club demands. But he appears to have a way to go to convince Roberto Mancini that he is worth persisting with. Though the club are unlikely to seek a move for the player, he is among those for whom an offer might be considered if one comes in this summer. The former England manager Fabio Capello shared Mancini's doubts about the player's approach to life.

City's frustration with Johnson is all the greater because of what he delivers once on the field. He has scored six league goals despite making only 10 starts this season – one reason that his ability is in no doubt. Mancini is not the kind of manager to put an arm around Johnson's shoulder, however. The club return on Sunday to Molineux, where after a Carling Cup tie in October, Johnson refused to board the bus home as he was so indignant about the Italian's public criticism of him. Mancini was unmoved.

"I am happy he is upset," he said at the time. "I say what I want because, if he were not a good player, then I would not waste my time on him. But because he has everything, I don't want him stopping at this level. I want him up a level and then a level more."

The incident typified the kinds of concerns which lead City to fear that Johnson will look back in two or three years time and wonder what might have been at the Etihad. All that said, Johnson has not been helped by Mancini's disinclination to use wide players.

Meanwhile, analysis by the financialfairplay.co.uk website, to be published today, suggests that City will find it harder to fall within the losses set out by the Uefa financial regime as had been widely thought. The site questions the assumption that £53m can be excluded from City's losses in the 2012-13 season relating to players signed prior to 31 May 2010 – a specific Uefa exclusion. The wage exclusion applies to the 2011-12 season only, the site asserts, placing City on course to miss a £38m target for the initial monitoring period.
 
I guess we know which paper speaks for who.

Yesterday Dzeko.

Today Jonno.

No doubt tomorrow they'll out another "bad egg".
 
Comrade Buka said:
FantasyIreland said:
grim up north said:
Which opposition?

The majority we play at home as parking the bus is a popular tactic,our goal difference would be even more impressive.

Saying that,i'd love a formation such as.....

-------------DJ------------
Valencia-Yaya--Silva-Lavezzi
-----------Aguero-----------

So no crosses then, since Aguero is a midget?

the rags score loads from low crosses, rooney and hernadez are hardly giants.

if we can combine our passing game with the rag like tactics of crossing as a plan b, we'll walk it next year with 3/4 additions.
 

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