"Jonno is a young player who's had an horrendous time with injuries, and at times you could see it in his face that he was devastated by what had happened to him."As a youngster, all you want to do is to play football, to be out there. Instead he had a year out after doing ever so well at Sunderland at the end of August and then breaking down.
"However hard you work, if you're not playing you put on the odd pound here and there, but believe me, he's been working really hard and he's looking better by the day and by the game."
Johnson is the main reason I don't want us to spend big on midfielders this January. Defenders, fine. I have no real attachment to any of the defenders at the club, and recognise that we can probably upgrade on them (providing MH doesn't mind buying from abroad.) But in Michael Johnson we have an Academy product who is arguably the most naturally gifted footballer we have produced yet. He may not be the best midfielder we could have lining up for us in 2010/11, but I would be willing to take the marginal downturn in quality for the pride in having one of our very own conducting play from midfield like he can.
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This is the mf we've been crying out for to bring on in the final 20 minutes when City have the lead and need to kill the game off. He's incredibly calm on the ball and won't give it away cheaply and will always look to retain possession rather than clear it or hit a desperate long pass
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