by bigmick » Sat Jul 17, 2010 7:39 pm
Johnson is just a modern full back for me, they are all better going forwards then they are going backwards. The days of the likes of Phil Neil or Alan Kennedy are long gone, and these days the likes of Evra, Cole, Lahm etc etc are all a bit suspect if you get at them. Johnson probably isn't in their class yet, but I do think he'll get there. We paid absolute top dollar for him obviously (17-18 million is a huge amount for a full back, particularly for a club with limited resources) but I think it'll prove to be one of the previous managers better buys.
I agree with the poster who says he needs to toughen up a bit mentally, but I really do believe that at his best he can extremely destructive going forward. Defensively he'll only ever be OK, but him and Kuyt on the right really ought to be a pairing which works.
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