Not sure how I feel about AJ at the moment. The whole scenario strikes me as odd.
He has scored some great goals for us this season (Stoke, Norwich, Blackburn, Wolves, Villa) and none of those were easy goals to score. Not to mention, we know he has the ability to be a good winger in his locker somewhere.
What I can't get over is that, it's seemed pretty obvious he is leaving for a while, however, only in November Bobby offered him a new contract worth 70k (If you believe the papers). If there's one thing we can say for Bobby, it is that he plans for the long term. So many of his purchases have been young talented men with very often, something to prove. Whether he had a hand in the Johnson transfer is open to debate but, we know Johnson is cut from the same cloth as players he generally likes.
Anyway the reason I say all this is because, I have a sneaky suspicion that we will see a lot more of Johnson next season. If we bought Bale as well, we could potentially see "Plan 1" be Silva, Nasri, and Yaya taking it down the middle with width from the full backs, and "Plan 2" be Bale and Johnson on the wings, or a combination of the two.
Who knows, but we've seen a few players look like the door will be shown to them and then they've come back to prove their worth. (Lescott, Richards, Barry (?), Balotelli (?)).
I get the feeling Bobby's biggest fear with Johnson is that he'll throw it all away. Obviously I don't know Johnson personally, but if the papers are to be believed he sounds like he likes a night out. Hopefully he can get his head down and show his true potential next season, because I reckon if we sell him, we might just regret it!
