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Michael Johnson
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ShaunyWrightWright
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mikeylad222 said:Threads like this are getting boring now.
Funny people find threads like this boring that are based on pictorial fact of a player who has been well-documented to go out too much but the 1000 pages of Tevez and Eto'o speculation arn't redundant whatsoever.
Ntini77
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john blue said:Looks like freddy flintoff. !
Kind of, but chubbier
Joycee Banercheck
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Stop obssessing about the weight put on over the course of months. Yeah he's put a fair few pounds on, but that won't take too long to get rid of now he can actually fucking run. Simple as. To say "he'll never play for City again" is a bit dramatic.
Ticket For Schalke said:kippax_blueboy said:Best of luck to Micheal over the next few months on the road to complete recovery.
This young lad has had a tough 12 months with injury, is a City player and deserves our support.
real tough, must be real tough pickin up 50 grand and gettin lashed infront of the public eye all the time. feel for the lad i do.
Firstly, MJ isn't on a 50 grand a week contract, nothing even close to that. Due to the way football contracts work, he pulls around £6-8k a week while injured. Whilst this may not seem like a tiny amount (and it isn't), you can knock 50-odd percent off of that from tax and NI contributions. Then with the various pensions and contribution to investment funds set up for him, you can half that again. So, lets call that £1.5-2k a week, still nothing to get worried about.
Of course, MJ has far greater expenses than we do, as he has a mortgage on a large house, tax/insurance for his car (not only is he a young male, he is a footballer too, which means his insurance premiums are about £50 bloody thousand a year), plus other heavy expenses.
He's fucking skint, or as close to it as you can be when you are a footballer.
Despite this, he is a down to earth Urmston lad. Yes, he went on the lash with a bunch of mates and got caught out twice in the press. He's a young lad sat on his own at home with nothing to do all day apart from sit watching his best mates get slaughtered at a game which he knows he could have made a big contribution to, if he wasn't struck down by a badly deformed muscle growth. How many times did you go out with your mates when you were his age? Fucking hypocrites. He's a footballer, not Jesus.
Funnily enough, saw him a few days back driving in his car, he actually looks a bit healthier than that picture shows, but nowhere near his former weight/body shape.
Anyway, stop making stupid jabs at a player whose boots you would probably pay to lace, and start getting behind your club, rag.
GStar
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Joycee Banercheck said:Stop obssessing about the weight put on over the course of months. Yeah he's put a fair few pounds on, but that won't take too long to get rid of now he can actually fucking run. Simple as. To say "he'll never play for City again" is a bit dramatic.
Few pounds? He looks like a completely differnet person, his skin complexion has totally changed, his head shape has changed and his cheeks look like a squirrel's before winter.
I'm all for getting behind him, but these people demanding we blindly back him ,without knowing his commitment levels need to think about what they're saying.
I'd love Johnson to get back and fufill the potential he showed, we laked a player of his ilk badly last season.
However, his body change is so 'dramatic' that he deserves it to be highlighted. Had he stuck to his diet and nutrition, regardless of excercise you probably only see a slight loss in muscle mass and a slight gain in fat storage, you might not even notice it. Its obvious he's been over endulging big style for quite a while.
Its up to him to make the first moves and pull his finger out, then i'll back him 100%.
Joycee Banercheck said:Stop obssessing about the weight put on over the course of months. Yeah he's put a fair few pounds on, but that won't take too long to get rid of now he can actually fucking run. Simple as. To say "he'll never play for City again" is a bit dramatic.
can he run? He's healthy? Link?
Ntini77
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Doing what Ireland has been doing in pre-season would be a good start.
baggy
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Damocles said:£1.5-2k a week, still nothing to get worried about.
Ah, bollocks to that then, might as well get a job down the factory with the rest of us for that pittance...