Manchester City are desperate to add a left-sided winger to their ever increasing squad after they were tormented by Ryan Giggs last night in their League Cup Semi-Final defeat to Manchester United.
Roberto Mancini will try and lure Johnson to the City of Manchester Stadium to ease the disappointment of last night’s cup exit, but the big question is: Will AJ move to Manchester City to sit on the bench?
There is no way that Mancini will throw Johnson straight into the City side, not at the business end of the season. If he does sign for the blue half of Manchester he is likely to be broken in over the next six months, limiting his appearances in the Premier League which would jeopardise his chances of making the World Cup in South Africa.
Money might talk here though, but I am a believer of ‘proper’ professional footballers and I put Adam Johnson in that bracket. He loves playing football unlike some mercenary-players that have leaked into the footballing world due to the high wages becoming available. Johnson will hate sitting on the bench and if he went to Man City, that is very likely. He spent far too long on the Boro bench thanks mainly to Stewart Downing’s quality and Southgate’s inability to play two wingers in the same game. He needs to play football matches!
Even if this latest rumour does materialise it will certainly bring Chelsea into the equation and, like I mentioned in my last post, it could start a bidding war. The worrying thing is Middlesbrough officials will be looking at the money and not the ‘good’ of Adam Johnson – after all it is a business but because we’ve had him at the Riverside since he was a small lad we should be taking a look at what’s best for both parties here.
The Adam Johnson saga continues..
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Johnson should look at the cautionary tale of Reading’s Steve Sidwell. Dazzled by the bright lights of Chelsa instead of playing regularly for Reading or Newcastle his career hit the buffers by spending too much time on the bench and then not making an impression when he made his briefist of appearnce when the stars where off at the African Cup of Nations.
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We should take the £9 million mentioned in the press and demand them to loan him back to us until the end of the season to help us reach the play-offs. Saw him at Doncaster the other night, he was the only player on the pitch which prevented me from falling asleep, a must keep for Boro. Johno and nakumura would be a force to be reckoned with in this league, also, get rid of Killen, drastic signing from GS !
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