Michael Johnson.....

[stony]

Who on earth signed Michael Johnson to a 5 year contract in 2009!??

Our club seems really good at giving lengthy contracts to idiots. Danny Mills anyone?

Fair enough Johnson played well in his breakthroguh season, but if he signed for 5 years in 2009, that would have been whilst he had a bad injury and with the background noise of him clearly going out and getting pissed a lot. 5 year contract would appear to be rather financially daft.

It's always easy with the benefit of hindsight, but at the time Johnson was one of the most exciting prospects in the country and the most promising talent to come out of the club in a long time. Even Liverpool were sniffing around him and they were a top 4 team then. Johnson did enough on the pitch to earn that contract, but he's done nothing to earn his wages since.
Most City fans were delighted we had tied him up for 5 years. What happened since then is worst case scenario and no one could have predicted that.

 

[Nicholas van Whatsisface]

Who on earth signed Michael Johnson to a 5 year contract in 2009!??

Our club seems really good at giving lengthy contracts to idiots. Danny Mills anyone?

Fair enough Johnson played well in his breakthroguh season, but if he signed for 5 years in 2009, that would have been whilst he had a bad injury and with the background noise of him clearly going out and getting pissed a lot. 5 year contract would appear to be rather financially daft.

It's always easy with the benefit of hindsight, but at the time Johnson was one of the most exciting prospects in the country and the most promising talent to come out of the club in a long time. Even Liverpool were sniffing around him and they were a top 4 team then. Johnson did enough on the pitch to earn that contract, but he's done nothing to earn his wages since.
Most City fans were delighted we had tied him up for 5 years. What happened since then is worst case scenario and no one could have predicted that.

To be fair to the Club, it was 2008 when we gave him the 5 year contract, not 2009, so he was only just at the beginning of his first injury problem at that point - no-one could have predicted quite how badly it was going to turn out at that point - we were rewarding one of our brightest prospects at the beginning of Sheikh Mansour's reign at City, which I'm sure most fans would have applauded at the time!

 

[johnny on the spot]

I've met many people with similar difficulties. Had it all, the good times rolling then something went wrong and the drink filled the vacuum. Not content with occupying that space, it wanted the rest of him. These aren't bad people and to suggest with Michael Johnson as proxy that all alcoholics are 'fucking wasters' etc is supremely arrogant.

The repeated drink driving is deplorable and he should be punished by a court, probably sacked by his employers. Whichever responsible person failed to drag the kid into AA after the first incident should also have a serious word with themselves. Ultimately what we're left with is the sad remains of another young kid fucked by accidental injury, the covetous largesse of football clubs and alcohol. Two out of these three elements could have been either prevented or helped with the right minds.

 

[johnny crossan]

Balotelli goes out, but doesn't drink alcohol....

 

[Josh Blue]

Balotelli goes out, but doesn't drink alcohol....

The DON!

 

[isab23502]

I'm not sure if this is right but I understand from some of the reports that on at least one of the occasions M Jonno was "just over" the limit rather than off his face. I don't know about you guys but for me this puts a different slant on the drink driving issue - although of course there are other issues.

 

[isab23502]

I'm not sure if this is right but I understand from some of the reports that on at least one of the occasions M Jonno was "just over" the limit rather than off his face. I don't know about you guys but for me this puts a different slant on the drink driving issue - although of course there are other issues.

From what I read on various sites it seems Jonno was 16 mg over on a blood test for one incident and "just over" on the other. Based on 80 mg/100 ml limit it would seem for the 16 mg over incident he would (for example) have had less than a half over the 2 pint equivalent limit. So although he is an offender it sounds like (if I am understanding it all correctly) he was probably very far from bladdered on these occasions and wasn't drinking to excess generally (in excess for a footballer I mean, not a driver). Just trying to get some perspective on the story.

 

[forevermancity]

Pretty obvious that zin has an agenda against him with that wrote up

Doesn't look good for him...I'm hoping for a comeback...not for city..that would be a miracle.

 

[grim up north]

I'm not sure if this is right but I understand from some of the reports that on at least one of the occasions M Jonno was "just over" the limit rather than off his face. I don't know about you guys but for me this puts a different slant on the drink driving issue - although of course there are other issues.

From what I read on various sites it seems Jonno was 16 mg over on a blood test for one incident and "just over" on the other. Based on 80 mg/100 ml limit it would seem for the 16 mg over incident he would (for example) have had less than a half over the 2 pint equivalent limit. So although he is an offender it sounds like (if I am understanding it all correctly) he was probably very far from bladdered on these occasions and wasn't drinking to excess generally (in excess for a footballer I mean, not a driver). Just trying to get some perspective on the story.

As I said earlier one or two who have hung drawn and quartered him on here, have been in exactly the same position just haven't got caught

 

[royle]

He has been caught twice,he would have to be the unluckiest man in the world to have only been over the limit twice and been caught both times,being caught twice suggests to me that driving while over the limit was something he did regularly.