Brennan Johnson

[cassius]

Id have sancho on what hes apparently been offered. 10k a week seems a decent punt.

Ah come on, you'd only want us to sign him so that we'd have another reject player for you to hate the club about signing

[777Kidnappings]

Ah come on, you'd only want us to sign him so that we'd have another reject player for you to hate the club about signing

Least hes a punt at the price of a punt. Johnson on 100k a week or sancho on 10

[UnsyisaRhino]

I wouldn't want another name to potentially take playing time away from our youngsters. Especially one who has such a bad rep. Sancho things he's too good to do the hard work and we shouldn't be bringing players like him into the club.

[Paddockoldie]

Reminds me of Deli, undoubted talent, but just something not quite right in terms of attitude or temperament

[Gary1878]

I am really surprised with the amount of game time he has received so far. I have probably been quite naive given what we know about Moyes. I thought George and Dibling looked great in pre-season and carried that through in the first one or two games.

I just don’t understand the merits of Johnson over those two. But I would understand to have him as an impact player off the bench.

It’s time to give the other guys a run of games, whoever it is.

[777Kidnappings]

I am really surprised with the amount of game time he has received so far. I have probably been quite naive given what we know about Moyes. I thought George and Dibling looked great in pre-season and carried that through in the first one or two games.

I just don’t understand the merits of Johnson over those two. But I would understand to have him as an impact player off the bench.

It’s time to give the other guys a run of games, whoever it is.

Understand if there was any sign of it working but hes barely been in any game

[UnsyisaRhino]

Understand if there was any sign of it working but hes barely been in any game

I think he passes Moyes' hard work eye test.

Essentially, he runs around a lot and looks busy while doing it.

[blueToffee]

I think overall though I'd have a lot more patience if we actually gave more players the same sort of opportunities he's getting.

I don't super rate him, but trying to be fair there are some attributes there you can use...but it feels like we're compounding the problem with how we're playing him plus we're adding in extra frustration with the knock on effect it's having of denying two young wingers (George and Dibling) the playing time they need too (to some degree regardless of what you think of them they have to play more to have any chance of improving and contributing).

I think given his cameo previously he could work as a 20 min left replacement for Barry or just as a winger option then too. The only way this persistence to play him pays off is if he starts scoring regularly and the longer he goes without that happening the worse it looks for both him and Moyes.

[Bumble]

The experiment of using him as a starter hasn't worked. We could see that more or less immediately.

The one game he came on as a sub against tired legs for the last 20 was in the cup, where he scored and had an assist.

I'm struggling to see the thinking at the minute, when the stats back up the eye test.

[TrevorSteven]

For me David Moyes persisting to choose Brennan Johnson in the first eleven is the manifistation of his characther. He has never fancied youth and he has never fancied skillful players.

Johnsons stats this season is shocking and they are telling us that David Moyes treatment of Dibling and George is quite unfair.

8 appearances - 0 goals - 0 assists with an xG of 1,08 and xA of 0,39
He has made 68 passes with a success rate of only 74 percent and 11 crosses with only 27 percent completed.
He has made two dribles where one was successful and the other went bad.
He has been in offside 6 times and I think two of them lead to a goal being disallowed.

For me that is not good enough attacking stats to keep playing so lets look at those defensive contribution that probably would be what Moyes wants from him.
He has made 8 tackles (only 5 succesfull) during those 8 games, 3 interceptions and 1 block. He has won 12 duels where one of them was an aerial duel.

This is really bad defensive stats and historically his defensive stats has always been close to the bottom of the league. These are metrics that clubs like Brighton, Brentford and Bournemouth would have been looking at and said - hell no, we are not signing this guy.

So I guess we are just left with his speed then - as we are told that he is so incredibly quick. Well - is he?

Not really - and when watching the mathces it hasnt looked like he is running from those defenders either. His fastest sprint has clocked in as the 48th fastest player in the Premier League - behind Merlin and Barry and only 0,1 km/h faster than Tyrique George.

So why does Moyes keep playing him?

The answer lays in the only stats where Brennan Johnson scores high. He runs a lot. Unfortunately without quality, with the wrong passes, wrong decisions, wrong anticipation, and not enough speed - but he runs and runs and runs.

As I said Moyes doesnt care about skills and quality he cares about players making an effort. That is the only thing Brennan Johnson does and unfortunately that is enough for Mr Moyes.

[Gary1878]

The only negative I saw from the Newcastle game was this guy.

He just doesn’t run. If you are coming on as sub with 10 minutes to go and 1-0 up, run your bollocks off. It’s the bare minimum. He just doesn’t look arsed at all.

He should be sprinting and closing everyone down with fresh legs, not letting players stride past him into our half.

[Bumble]

The only negative I saw from the Newcastle game was this guy.

He just doesn’t run. If you are coming on as sub with 10 minutes to go and 1-0 up, run your bollocks off. It’s the bare minimum. He just doesn’t look arsed at all.

He should be sprinting and closing everyone down with fresh legs, not letting players stride past him into our half.

Yeh saw that a couple of times.

Absolute nothing player. A fine waste of £100k/wk.

[Cozzie]

The only negative I saw from the Newcastle game was this guy.

He just doesn’t run. If you are coming on as sub with 10 minutes to go and 1-0 up, run your bollocks off. It’s the bare minimum. He just doesn’t look arsed at all.

He should be sprinting and closing everyone down with fresh legs, not letting players stride past him into our half.

This absolutely snapped me.

He made no effort to try and close down the player within 5 yards of him.

He's an absolute disgrace, on top of being total dog shit too.

[Jamokachi]

He was brought on to try and stretch the game, to run in behind... hew was on the shoulder a few times but the ball wasn't played. Barking up the wrong tree if you expect a pressing merchant, save yourselves the energy.

[Cods]

Ploy to make Burn sit back given how good he is at going forward late in games.

We just decided to keep ball instead of searching for a clincher.

Both centre backs on a yellow, why not.