Should Glen Johnson get a new contract?

[Lfc Verve]

I just don't get it.

 

 

Fucking hell.

[Tony Moanero]

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[LFC 6 Times]

Another 3 years of Glen eh? Good luck lads.

[Iceman]

Don't sign any new players that have experience because they don't suit our transfer philosophy, yet keep the shit experienced players we already have and give them longer deals. Yeah that should do it. 

 

Operation fuckwit is go. 

[Hades]

You have got to be fucking joking. Experience? He's the worst possible example for younger players.

[s(k)aturation]

120,000k a week.

 

Oh my good God.

[J-V]

Let Gerrard walk but keep this twat.

[Iceman]

Forget top four, it's amazing we're still in the top flight. It's another shocking decision in a litany of shite decisions.

 

Seems they have no one whose job it is to monitor the supporters popular consensus. Perhaps by visiting forums such as this one, because taking just a cursory glance at a thread such as this, would make it crystal clear that Johnson is not highly rated and is not a player that we would deem it necessary to give a large amount of what would seem to be our rather limited wage budget.

 

Listen to your customers. It's the first rule of business for god's sake. NO ONE RATES JOHNSON. Stop giving him large amounts of our money. 

[Ne Moe Imya]

I'm sure people will say this is kneejerk, and maybe they're right, but this honestly causes the amount of doubt I have in Brendan Rodgers as the long-term manager of Liverpool to go way, way up.

 

I was just starting to come around to the fact that he learns from his mistakes - he may make some mind-blowing mistakes (like signing Lovren for 20m to replace our best defender) but at least he's not stubborn.  If his "philosophy" isn't working, he adapts it to find one that does.  4-4-2 is a failure after 10 games?  He's not afraid to go 3-4-3 and totally change everything if it brings results.  Unheralded youth player Flanagan outplays your 6m signing Enrique?  Fine, play him ahead of Jose and see if we can't win the league that way.

 

I've been waiting to see what he does with Lovren and Johnson, though, just hoping that he would continue in that vein.  These are two players that have shown nothing to recommend them to be on the pitch, Johnson for about 3 seasons now and Lovren ever since he put on a red shirt.

 

I was hoping, really hoping that Lovren would come back from injury and split time with Toure on the bench, maybe playing every now and then when Sakho needs a rest.  That would take balls from Brendan but I was hopeful based on what I mentioned above about him not clinging to mistakes.  Johnson is the same way - an expensive player on big wages, and the question was whether Rodgers had the bollocks to let him walk away for free.

 

If this news is true, and we're offering Johnson a new contract, then maybe Brendan really isn't as good at learning from his mistakes as we'd hoped.  And if that's the case then I'm not really sure he's the man for Liverpool over the long term.  This is a mistake on the level of Lovren if it happens, and it's patently obvious that it's a mistake to everyone with half a brain.

[James Dean]

Frustrating yesterday. You can't run through people Glen. Get that in your fucking head.

[Frankenhooker]

Three years ? Oh dear.

[mouse1989]

I give up

[El Dangerous]

I take it nobody offered him better than our paltry £60k a week then. I bet we're giving him a signing on fee as well!

[Jairzinho]

I refuse to believe this is true.

[Paulie Dangerously]

We've let club legend Gerrard go and keeping this waste of space?

 

Moneyballz

[Mook]

I refuse to believe this is true.

My thinking too.

[Paco]

In terms of gerrard not getting a new contract and johnson supposedly getting one - it must be the age of 30 is the last age they will offer you a long term contract. Skrtel is supposed to be getting a new long term one as well.

 

I don't mind johnson and I think he gets a lot of stick because it coincided with our post rafa demise.

[stringvest]

Johnson's agent has probably been whoring the healthy eater all over the world with zip response. Either take this or a 'pay as you play' with Darlington. 

[ratcatcher]

I think its right that there's probably been little interest from clubs he thought would be interested. Apparently roma expressed an interest but Italian clubs arent that wealthy so they were probably talking a lot less money than even Liverpool were offering.

 

This new deal if he does sign will be nowhere near his current £120k a week. Think £60k to £70k.

[Babb'sBurstNad]

Feed him into a wood chipper and give his wages to Sterling.

[Pureblood]

Seems they have no one whose job it is to monitor the supporters popular consensus. Perhaps by visiting forums such as this one, because taking just a cursory glance at a thread such as this, would make it crystal clear that Johnson is not highly rated and is not a player that we would deem it necessary to give a large amount of what would seem to be our rather limited wage budget.

 

Listen to your customers. It's the first rule of business for god's sake. NO ONE RATES JOHNSON. Stop giving him large amounts of our money. 

 

Is this post some sort of joke?  Personally I am glad the club is not run on this basis. 

[ratcatcher]

Is this post some sort of joke?  Personally I am glad the club is not run on this basis. 

 

Correct. Much as there are some issues I disagree with the club on, monitoring fans wishes on players and team selection is a non fucking starter.

[magicrat]

He should have been told to go in the summer. This is poor especially in the light of the failure to persuade Gerrard to stay in a more limited role. I suppose the difference is Stevie still has some fire in his belly and won't lie down whilst this twat is happy to pocket millions every year for spending half his time doing fuck all.

We just keep shooting ourselves in the foot. Depressing to say the least

[Tj hooker]

Please god say it's not true even st 60k a week, the minimum wage would be to much

[Red Banjo]

Let Suso and Gerrard walk away, but reaffirm the direction of the club to the fans by keeping the player nobody wants.

 

Wow. Just wow.