Player Watch Player Watch: Brennan Johnson
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next season will be the time to judge him.
he has a lot of good moments, you know there is more to come He needs more hunger and confidence .
his a 25 million player atm, who is finding his feet, his young and will improve, if you look at the difference in some of our players a year on, it will be interesting to see how he develops, it’s hard to formulate an opinion as he has had a lot of good moments.
he needs to spend time with son and Ivan
he has a lot of good moments, you know there is more to come He needs more hunger and confidence .
his a 25 million player atm, who is finding his feet, his young and will improve, if you look at the difference in some of our players a year on, it will be interesting to see how he develops, it’s hard to formulate an opinion as he has had a lot of good moments.
he needs to spend time with son and Ivan
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Nick-TopSpursMan
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He is a young player who needs time and patience to develop.
His biggest problem is his lack of aggression and self belief. It affects him in all phases of the game. Defensively it means he’s too hesitant to challenge players. Offensively it means he doesn’t take on his man directly enough and is far too hesitant with his decision making in attack.
He isn’t amazing technically either and it’s made worse because neither are Son or Richarlison. Put them together and you get an attack which lacks the requisite qualities of an elite attack.
If he can develop aggression and self belief though then his elite tier pace and direct running will see him become a valuable member of the squad. He wasn’t the 1v1 winger we needed though and imo that was a much bigger priority for our team.
Let’s give him time to develop though, let Ange work with him.
His biggest problem is his lack of aggression and self belief. It affects him in all phases of the game. Defensively it means he’s too hesitant to challenge players. Offensively it means he doesn’t take on his man directly enough and is far too hesitant with his decision making in attack.
He isn’t amazing technically either and it’s made worse because neither are Son or Richarlison. Put them together and you get an attack which lacks the requisite qualities of an elite attack.
If he can develop aggression and self belief though then his elite tier pace and direct running will see him become a valuable member of the squad. He wasn’t the 1v1 winger we needed though and imo that was a much bigger priority for our team.
Let’s give him time to develop though, let Ange work with him.
TheHoddleWaddle
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I'll have to disagree. He's shown nothing to warrant a first team spot for a team (when 100%) that's a potential contender. He's playing out of necessity.
He might well improve with the likes of bentancur and Maddison back in the side. But at the moment, I'm not seeing a first teamer.
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FibreOpticJesus
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Actually he's English. He chose to play for wales.
TheHodFather
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He was born in England. His mum's Welsh and his dad is the former Jamaican international David Johnson (ex Ipswich and Forest).
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Impspur1
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There’s clearly a player in there, a bit like Richy, just needs something to go for him
FibreOpticJesus
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Yep and he was born and lived in Nottingham
TheHodFather
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I know - he certainly could have played for England. And Jamaica as well. Just pointing out that "he's English" is perhaps a little bit of an oversimplification, but I think we're at risk of straying into a different debate that I've no interest in getting into so I'll leave it there!
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He saw in an interview that he also speaks Welsh.
I’m totally unconvinced by Kulu in the midfield, we end up weakened on the right side and ineffective in moving possession in the midfield. The balance looked better when Kulu got back out right and GLC came into midfield.
Trent Crimm
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lol. The pattern is
2 great games = generational, elite talent
2 shit games = toxic wanker, he’s shit, play one of the U8’s or spend 200m on a replacement everyone pretends they’ve “Scouted” from age of 3.
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Never? How come ?
I think the issue with Kulu at 10 is his positioning is much higher, he’s almost like a second striker rather than a 10. maddison and lo celso play the role more as attacking 8s, they come deeper a lot to retrieve the ball and link play etc.
I think Kulu is good at 10 when we have the legs in biss and sarr who can both beat the press too but when you have hojberg or skipp in there, it means we have a big gap and lack bodies in there.
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He’s probably played a lot more minutes than Ange was hoping for in his first season without the likes of madders, Lolo or even biss and Richy supporting him like we would have liked.
The team has so many issues with players out of/just finding form, players wanting to leave and obviously our injuries. It’s been a tough start for him but he seems to have a good attitude and I’m sure it will happen for him. May just take longer than we need.
The team has so many issues with players out of/just finding form, players wanting to leave and obviously our injuries. It’s been a tough start for him but he seems to have a good attitude and I’m sure it will happen for him. May just take longer than we need.
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He's been fine for me.
If not for a couple of inches he'd have 3/4 more goals for us so I'm not overly fussed atm. Certainly talent there and I'm happy enough with it. Nice few assists as well so doing something.
If everyone's fit does he start every game? Likely not. But same can be said for a lot of our players. Whilst Ange seems to overall like a settled team, I also think if he has options and someone's not fit/not 100% he'd rotate. And I like Brennan as a good option to have with the potential to grow into more of a fixed part of our team.
If not for a couple of inches he'd have 3/4 more goals for us so I'm not overly fussed atm. Certainly talent there and I'm happy enough with it. Nice few assists as well so doing something.
If everyone's fit does he start every game? Likely not. But same can be said for a lot of our players. Whilst Ange seems to overall like a settled team, I also think if he has options and someone's not fit/not 100% he'd rotate. And I like Brennan as a good option to have with the potential to grow into more of a fixed part of our team.
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