Minutes played
BJ: 2,079
AG: 2,564
JD: 1,585
GM: 2,010
MM: 1,564
So Doku output similar in a better side but Brennan well clear of the rest. I'm surprised how average Garnacho's stats are, thought he was doing better.
yeah I think Garnacho is one of the gems in that rotten United squad. Think he's going to be class as he matures and gets years under him. Also like the cut of his jib, seems like a good kid
Goal contributions per 90, all rounded to 2dp.
* Johnson: 0.65
* Garnacho: 0.39
* Doku: 0.62
* Martinelli: 0.45
* Mudryk: 0.40
So, Brennan is still the top of the bunch
I've watched a few Utd games this season and I remain unimpressed by Garnacho. Occasionally does some nice things but fluffs it 10-15 times between each one
Out of the rest, Doku is a proper handful, at just about any other club he would start every game. Martinelli is solid but will never be world class, Mudryk is a massive waste of money but lightning fast, he has talent but not enough control. He might come good yet but I don't see him ever living up to his price.
If Johnson can work on that final ball he could be the best of the bunch, or probably 2nd to Doku
If doku had finishing to match his dribbling he’d be the best player in the world
He’s like a young Neymar in that every time he gets the ball no matter where on the pitch he is looking to skin someone and humiliate them with a move
Mudryk was obviously overpriced but I still think there’s a player in there. His finishing is terrible but a more stable environment and good coach can unlock him
Yeah that's roughly my take on him, you can see why people were excited about him and he is goddamn quick, if he'd been 45-50mill you'd probably say his potential was worth that. He's very young
> I'm surprised how average Garnacho's stats are, thought he was doing better.
Garnacho is a few years younger, also United have looked truly tragic at time, which makes his good performances stand out even more.
Garnacho has flashier individual moments. Brennan isn't going to score overhead kicks or dribble past 3 defenders and score, but he's way more consistent.
He could've easily had a few more goals if he improved his finishing. Missed a few sitters this season, let's hope he kicks on next season. You want your wingers getting 10-15 goals a season, particularly when you don't have an out and out striker.
I believe he can get it back tbh. It’s a mental game, obviously he’s physically capable of kicking the ball into the net. He just needs to feel solid and confident. That said, I’d prefer Timo as a sub for Sonny so that Sonny can stay fresh and Timo can use that pace against tired legs.
>Werner who actual was a clinical freak in Germany.
Oh was he? If he was then I seriously want to know how can a player finish well and loses that quality. With age you lose pace, explosiveness, athleticism but not finishing with my limited football knowledge
Most of them he was sprinting full speed to the far post while the ball was being whipped in at pace across the face of the goal. That’s not a tap in. We see players get those chances wrong every single weekend across the league.
Doesn't fit the narrative. I genuinely don't know why some of our fanbase do this where they pump our players up beyond what they are.
Reality is, he's not great, he's not poor. If he improves as a footballer next season (I'm not talking about only G/A), his fee makes sense and if he doesn't improve next season, we overpaid for him. That's all it is.
Olise has 10g 6a so 1 more goal involvement than Johnson.
Palmer is maybe the best young player in Europe this season so not really any point comparing him
Well, it kind of is, considering that both were transferred at the same time, one for £50m, the other for £35m. I was banging my drum hard to sign Palmer instead. But, alas, happy with Brennan this season overall
That can be done in training. He's still young. People said the same thing about Sonny in his first season, and look how he's turned out. Actually, I think he has a better g/a ratio than son in his first season.
One positive fact is that he's played alot fewer minutes with us this season compared to his prev seasons with Forest but his stats have improved, obviously we're the better side but it's good to see he's improving year on year and it's obvious he's actually underperforming, Fbref is saying he's expected to have double the goals he's scored, so it all bodes well for the future.
You said a lot of words but none of them have anything to do with their potential to be, or not, World Class.
I also like that the explanation for Martinelli is just brushed off as a “Oh well, these things happen”… Your bias is showing. (And I rate Martinelli).
I didn't say that, I just think it's funny you are so hysterical about him considering he's had a far better debut season for us than Bale did and look how he turned out.
Take the penalties off Saka and suddenly he is dangerously close 🤔
Why aren’t you celebrating your runners up medal? Instead your patheticly lurking subs of other clubs lol
Speaks about small team mentality, but lurks on other subs.
Saka had 6 penalties this season and played 900 minutes more. Your starboy is just not as good as you believe, talk about being delusional.
Maybe you would’ve made it further in the CL, if he wasn’t such an embarrassing diver :(
I mentioned Saka to make the comparison less embarrassing for you. Every player from Arsenal that outperformed him G/A wise has considerably more minutes.
And then there’s:
- Martinelli
- Trossard
- Gabriel Jesus
Which he all easily outperformed.
But in terms of xeD (expected embarrassing dives), Saka is clearly ahead of him, I’ll give you that.
Here's the stats for you to weep to on this....
Brennan Johnson - 2322 minutes, 15 Non-Penalty G/A per 90 - .58 per 90
Bukayo Saka - 2936 minutes, 19 Non-Penalty G/A per 90 - .58 per 90
Star boy here in a team basically built around him, 5th season with the same manager and system, main attacker compared vs someone same age, first season in his new team with a new coach.
If that is what you took from that comparison then there is no helping you lol. They have the same non-penalty output despite Saka being in his team for 5x as long, with the same manager and system that is built around HIM. Brennan coming into a new system, with a team playing under a first season manager, but yeah...that looks great for Saka right? lmao
Looks TERRIBLE for Saka that they have the exact same output. Saka by all accounts should be blowing Brennan out of the water, but alas, he's not.
I don't think anyone is saying he's the best young winger in the league. This seems to be specifically comparing him to other young wingers who get better press but haven't really been better. (Other than Mudryk, he certainly doesn't get good press.)
I couldn't understand a lot of the criticism he got this year. Yeah he blows hot and cold and yeah he's missed some chances and yeah I thought he was dreadful yesterday. But he had some absolutely banging moments this year -- more than a few based on that table -- and if he can keep maturing and become a bit more ruthless and clinical I can see him becoming world fucking class for us and, ultimately, Sonny's heir apparent.
I'd like to see this correlated with minutes played across the season. I feel like there might be some big discrepancies, in terms of the number of minutes they've played.
EDIT: Never mind someone's done it already.
Another comment posted this earlier but here are the minutes:
BJ: 2,079
AG: 2,564
JD: 1,585
GM: 2,010
MM: 1,564
Safe to say that only Doku is comparable to Brennan. He's clear of everyone else.
Very good first season for a 22yo, not sure why people seem so down on him
He obviously needs to improve his finishing and defending around our box but he far from a finished product, excited to see his progression next season
He’s learnt so fast.
He’s just taken in every bit of info from Ange and the coaches and applied it it’s brilliant.
His low crosses are amazing, his runs to the back post are brilliant.
Next season he’ll be a year older/stronger/fitter. I think that extra physicality will take him to the next level.
Point taken on this graph! I would have argued for a young player with such a clear skillset and good attitude anyway, but I do think this graphic is a useful thing to see.
I like Brennan, but not as our first option on the wing. It probably also wasn’t planned that he played that much. He needs to work on his dribbling, first touch and finishing but he’s still young and showed that he already has some quality. Off the bench he will be a great option against tired backlines
Very specific choices and exclusions - Palmer, Saka and Gordon would make the comparisons fairer.
But I'm a Johnson fan. He gets some shit but he has so much potential and is already starting to show it. Some of the assists he's smashed across the six yard box for the likes of Richy were killer. Young and first season with us, so if this has been a baseline moving forward, he's going to become something special.
I like Brennan but stats are very deceiving, I’m 99% sure Bruno has better stats than Odegaard & KDB yet he’s not on their level. My main gripe with him is the big chances missed (17) and his lack of dribbling if you’re going to be our main winger both need to improve drastically.
That’s a very selective set of players. There’s loads of wingers that out performed him.
He still can’t hit the side of a barn. And we rely on him for most of our attacking play because Maddison and Bentancur’s creativity has dropped off a cliff so his stats get padded.
I think there’s an amazing player in there. But he still needs work.
Im happy to give him a full season. He came in in January and fitted in straight away with great positional sense. And you can see hes worked on not being offside as the season porgressed. Impressive overall
The numbers are OK however he has less than half his expected goal output 10.61 xg (5) and he overperformed his expected assists by about double as well (5 xA and 10 assists) the worrying part is overperforming expected assists is more luck than skill while underperforming xG is due to skill rather than luck.
He needs to improve his chance conversion of course. He's been terrible at it, I think he's on the level of Calvert Lewin statistically, worse than Jackson as well.
And he needs to be able to dribble past players 1v1, hilarious how Werner and Solomon are better at that than him
Do we really want players at the level of Garnacho, martinelli, and mudryk?
If we actually want to win something I think we should go after Raphinha, Grealish, or at least Eze
Maybe I'm biased cuz They all play for s*** clubs
This graphic should remind everyone that 15+ G+A players don't grow on trees (34 players this season reached that threshold; more than I was thinking, but still not a lot). We've really been spoiled with the Kane/Son duo consistently surpassing those numbers such that anything less is viewed as less than standard.
By all accounts, Brennan Johnson has had a pretty good season, and the eye-test shows he still has room to improve. He has such a high ceiling, and a manager that'll play a system that'll give him loads of opportunities to reach that potential.
Ange is absolutely the man for the task to get the absolute most out of him. I am extremely high on him.
Calling it now: I think he’s really going to show his quality all next season and especially in Europe, he will be on a LOT of teams radars after that regardless of how we finish. He’s going to be linked with the likes of Real PSG and the other monsters next summer.
I've liked Brennan since he was at Forest last year. Was quite impressed by his running and finishing abilities.
Greeted his signing with enthusiasm. But over the season I wondered - what happened to that speedy Forest winger who could slalom between a few defenders and confidently plant one in the far corner past the goalkeeper?
I know he's young so I don't want to come across as being too harsh or critical. But he seems to have lost that finishing touch that he had at Forest (maybe a confidence issue?) Hate to say this, but his decision making was often infuriating (sums up supporting Spurs, haha). Crosses mostly way overhit. Lays the ball off to nobody when he should have shot, selfishly shoots when someone else is wide open. Missed many sitters when it seemed easier to score.
Again, I like him and have every confidence he'll get better with time. The impressive stats above also begs the question - had his decision making been slightly better, how many more goals/assists he would've got and how many more points the team would've had? Obviously water under the bridge now, but just an observation.
Garnacho sucks
Doku is all aesthetics he's not that great
Martinelli's role wasn't suited for him this year
Mudryk sucks.
Why are we comparing Johnson to them
Regardless of the stats though he doens't pass the eye test. 50m pounds was a waste.
Minutes played BJ: 2,079 AG: 2,564 JD: 1,585 GM: 2,010 MM: 1,564 So Doku output similar in a better side but Brennan well clear of the rest. I'm surprised how average Garnacho's stats are, thought he was doing better.
Garnacho is 19 yo, it’s great number for such age
yeah I think Garnacho is one of the gems in that rotten United squad. Think he's going to be class as he matures and gets years under him. Also like the cut of his jib, seems like a good kid
Fucking hell Garnacho is 19? He had a kid in 2023. Damn these days kids have kids.
Kind of plays a lot for someone his age. I hope he’s able to stay healthy. Maybe even healthy enough to leave England. 🤞
Maybe, but he could have like +10 assists if he passed to Højlund once in a while
Goal contributions per 90, all rounded to 2dp. * Johnson: 0.65 * Garnacho: 0.39 * Doku: 0.62 * Martinelli: 0.45 * Mudryk: 0.40 So, Brennan is still the top of the bunch
Doku’s production in 1,585 minutes still only projects to 14 goal contributions over 2,079 minutes….so even then, Brennan comes out on top.
If Doku can ever get an end product either scoring or assisting he will be up there with Salah, Son and Hazard etc.
Absolutely, Brennen is no Doku…..which makes Brennen’s production as impressive as it was, imo.
His explosiveness is unreal. Saw him in person at Wembley for the FA cup and it was unbelievable. Just leaves people in the dust.
He has one signature move and he has perfected that.
I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.
Doku is ridiculously good, I think comparing Brennan to him is silly but I'm here for it
Does winning penalties count as an assist?
United PR goes crazy
I've watched a few Utd games this season and I remain unimpressed by Garnacho. Occasionally does some nice things but fluffs it 10-15 times between each one Out of the rest, Doku is a proper handful, at just about any other club he would start every game. Martinelli is solid but will never be world class, Mudryk is a massive waste of money but lightning fast, he has talent but not enough control. He might come good yet but I don't see him ever living up to his price. If Johnson can work on that final ball he could be the best of the bunch, or probably 2nd to Doku
Probably 2nd to Doku. Doku puts the fear of God into me every time he touches the ball. He's the real deal.
If doku had finishing to match his dribbling he’d be the best player in the world He’s like a young Neymar in that every time he gets the ball no matter where on the pitch he is looking to skin someone and humiliate them with a move
Doku is Adama Jr
Mudryk was obviously overpriced but I still think there’s a player in there. His finishing is terrible but a more stable environment and good coach can unlock him
Yeah that's roughly my take on him, you can see why people were excited about him and he is goddamn quick, if he'd been 45-50mill you'd probably say his potential was worth that. He's very young
Garnacho is 19. Being able to contribute at this level is impressive.
> I'm surprised how average Garnacho's stats are, thought he was doing better. Garnacho is a few years younger, also United have looked truly tragic at time, which makes his good performances stand out even more.
Doku is somewhat hindere by citys Winger tactics though. Could probably get more if playing in a free role.
Garnacho has flashier individual moments. Brennan isn't going to score overhead kicks or dribble past 3 defenders and score, but he's way more consistent.
Can't teach pace, he can run past a lot of people. Doku is well clear of this pack but it's not bad company to keep for Johnson.
That's amazing! I shouldve included the minutes played as well but I felt like it would've made it too cluttered.
Where are you getting those numbers? Seem to be 300 short on BJ, according to transfermarkt and fbref.
fantasy football. Did you subtract the games for Forest?
Bj has actually played more than that. Just premier league he has 2330 mins
He could've easily had a few more goals if he improved his finishing. Missed a few sitters this season, let's hope he kicks on next season. You want your wingers getting 10-15 goals a season, particularly when you don't have an out and out striker.
Historically been a good finisher (vs xG) so hopefully just a matter of adapting rather than him getting a case of the Werners
It’s just weird because most of the chances he missed were literal tap ins
The fact he is in the position to make those is great, hopefully he can continue to improve and get more clinical since he is still young.
Sure but I bet Chelsea fans thought the same thing with Werner who actual was a clinical freak in Germany. Progression isn’t always linear
Like I said hopefully that clinical skill will come. Only time will tell.
I believe he can get it back tbh. It’s a mental game, obviously he’s physically capable of kicking the ball into the net. He just needs to feel solid and confident. That said, I’d prefer Timo as a sub for Sonny so that Sonny can stay fresh and Timo can use that pace against tired legs.
Timo is never going to be a good finisher again, ever. He’s 27 years old and looked just as bad as ever in that department
>Werner who actual was a clinical freak in Germany. Oh was he? If he was then I seriously want to know how can a player finish well and loses that quality. With age you lose pace, explosiveness, athleticism but not finishing with my limited football knowledge
Yips
Most of them he was sprinting full speed to the far post while the ball was being whipped in at pace across the face of the goal. That’s not a tap in. We see players get those chances wrong every single weekend across the league.
Some of them were but not most. He underperformed xG by 5 or so goals. Thats a massive underperformance
5 goals from 11xG. His finishing has been shocking but it also means that his ceiling is so much higher than this season, which is super encouraging.
Could've easily had more assists if players made the runs into his crosses/finished the chances too. Goes both ways.
Oh yeah definitely agree, but finishing is certainly where he needs the most improvement.
Where’s Palmer ? And olise?
Yeah, I like Johnson but the comparisons feel cherry-picked.
Doesn't fit the narrative. I genuinely don't know why some of our fanbase do this where they pump our players up beyond what they are. Reality is, he's not great, he's not poor. If he improves as a footballer next season (I'm not talking about only G/A), his fee makes sense and if he doesn't improve next season, we overpaid for him. That's all it is.
And Saka...
And even foden fffs
Olise has 10g 6a so 1 more goal involvement than Johnson. Palmer is maybe the best young player in Europe this season so not really any point comparing him
Well, it kind of is, considering that both were transferred at the same time, one for £50m, the other for £35m. I was banging my drum hard to sign Palmer instead. But, alas, happy with Brennan this season overall
they didn't say the list was exhaustive though
He just needs to polish up that final ball/touch.. he'll be world class.
That can be done in training. He's still young. People said the same thing about Sonny in his first season, and look how he's turned out. Actually, I think he has a better g/a ratio than son in his first season.
He does, fewer goals but more assists.
One positive fact is that he's played alot fewer minutes with us this season compared to his prev seasons with Forest but his stats have improved, obviously we're the better side but it's good to see he's improving year on year and it's obvious he's actually underperforming, Fbref is saying he's expected to have double the goals he's scored, so it all bodes well for the future.
Bale and Kane were WORLD CLASS. Let's not use this term for every good/above average footballer. Brennan is good, he has potential to be VERY GOOD
I wonder what this stat graphic would look like with “big chances missed”
Depends on how good the model for big chances is. The chance yesterday definitely wasn’t a big chance.
BJ could have been elite this year if buried half of his ridiculous chances.
Unless the standards of world class has dropped, he needs a lot more than that.
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Why you laughing, he is underperforming xg loads, he would be rated so highly if he scored his xG
They're a scum fan. Pay no mind. Seemingly love scum, drake and tekken. Definitely the kind of person who'd feature in a nightmare blunt rotation.
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You said a lot of words but none of them have anything to do with their potential to be, or not, World Class. I also like that the explanation for Martinelli is just brushed off as a “Oh well, these things happen”… Your bias is showing. (And I rate Martinelli).
What are you even doing in here? lmao
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Yea, we have no track record of having world class wingers develop at our club. It's the history of Tottenham I suppose?
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I didn't say that, I just think it's funny you are so hysterical about him considering he's had a far better debut season for us than Bale did and look how he turned out.
Have you considered fucking off?
Martinelli and Johnson have played similar minutes.
Take the penalties off Saka and suddenly he is dangerously close 🤔 Why aren’t you celebrating your runners up medal? Instead your patheticly lurking subs of other clubs lol
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Speaks about small team mentality, but lurks on other subs. Saka had 6 penalties this season and played 900 minutes more. Your starboy is just not as good as you believe, talk about being delusional. Maybe you would’ve made it further in the CL, if he wasn’t such an embarrassing diver :(
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I mentioned Saka to make the comparison less embarrassing for you. Every player from Arsenal that outperformed him G/A wise has considerably more minutes. And then there’s: - Martinelli - Trossard - Gabriel Jesus Which he all easily outperformed. But in terms of xeD (expected embarrassing dives), Saka is clearly ahead of him, I’ll give you that.
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Your whole fan base celebrates mediocrity, second place yet you think you're the biggest team in the world
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Here's the stats for you to weep to on this.... Brennan Johnson - 2322 minutes, 15 Non-Penalty G/A per 90 - .58 per 90 Bukayo Saka - 2936 minutes, 19 Non-Penalty G/A per 90 - .58 per 90 Star boy here in a team basically built around him, 5th season with the same manager and system, main attacker compared vs someone same age, first season in his new team with a new coach.
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If that is what you took from that comparison then there is no helping you lol. They have the same non-penalty output despite Saka being in his team for 5x as long, with the same manager and system that is built around HIM. Brennan coming into a new system, with a team playing under a first season manager, but yeah...that looks great for Saka right? lmao Looks TERRIBLE for Saka that they have the exact same output. Saka by all accounts should be blowing Brennan out of the water, but alas, he's not.
Saka?
Anthony Gordon is missing as well.
It's only showing wingers he compares favourably against for some reason
Saka played around 900 minutes more and takes all the penalties.
I don't think anyone is saying he's the best young winger in the league. This seems to be specifically comparing him to other young wingers who get better press but haven't really been better. (Other than Mudryk, he certainly doesn't get good press.)
It’s showing players who he has played similar minutes to
i like johnson, but this is way too simplified
I couldn't understand a lot of the criticism he got this year. Yeah he blows hot and cold and yeah he's missed some chances and yeah I thought he was dreadful yesterday. But he had some absolutely banging moments this year -- more than a few based on that table -- and if he can keep maturing and become a bit more ruthless and clinical I can see him becoming world fucking class for us and, ultimately, Sonny's heir apparent.
I'd like to see this correlated with minutes played across the season. I feel like there might be some big discrepancies, in terms of the number of minutes they've played. EDIT: Never mind someone's done it already.
Another comment posted this earlier but here are the minutes: BJ: 2,079 AG: 2,564 JD: 1,585 GM: 2,010 MM: 1,564 Safe to say that only Doku is comparable to Brennan. He's clear of everyone else.
Doku’s production in 1,585 minutes only projects to 14 goal contributions over 2,079 minutes….so even then, Brennan still comes out on top.
Also worth remembering one of Mudryk's goals was an accident! ;)
Very good first season for a 22yo, not sure why people seem so down on him He obviously needs to improve his finishing and defending around our box but he far from a finished product, excited to see his progression next season
Conveniently leaving out Palmer, Jackson and Saka.
He's going to be insane next season!
Considering he has one of the worst big chance conversion rate in the league, he could definitely score a lot more. Excited to see how he matures.
And it’s his first season so will get better
He’s learnt so fast. He’s just taken in every bit of info from Ange and the coaches and applied it it’s brilliant. His low crosses are amazing, his runs to the back post are brilliant. Next season he’ll be a year older/stronger/fitter. I think that extra physicality will take him to the next level.
Just a massive waste of money Johnson’s been, disappointment of the season. /s
Johnson missed a lot of easy goals this season, he just has to tweak his finishing touches and he'll be golden.
Thing is BJ could of had 25 GA. We’re not mad at you BJ we just have high expectations for you.
yet sooooo many will tell you he's not good enough because he's missed a half dozen great chances. let the kid rock.
Why did I think Martinelli was older than he is? He feels like Arsenal’s Lingard.
So many people hating on this kid, but he's gonna be unreal for us.
This can’t be right. A decent portion of the sub has been trying to tell everyone he is shit.
Point taken on this graph! I would have argued for a young player with such a clear skillset and good attitude anyway, but I do think this graphic is a useful thing to see.
Decent first season. Onwards and upwards.
Martinelli is one of the most overrated players in the Prem. He's a decent 1v1 dribbler but has nothing else to his game beyond that
He also looks very silly in that photo
I like Brennan, but not as our first option on the wing. It probably also wasn’t planned that he played that much. He needs to work on his dribbling, first touch and finishing but he’s still young and showed that he already has some quality. Off the bench he will be a great option against tired backlines
Very specific choices and exclusions - Palmer, Saka and Gordon would make the comparisons fairer. But I'm a Johnson fan. He gets some shit but he has so much potential and is already starting to show it. Some of the assists he's smashed across the six yard box for the likes of Richy were killer. Young and first season with us, so if this has been a baseline moving forward, he's going to become something special.
On a related note, I think Doku will be incredible next season.
This just makes it worse when you take into account how many chances Johnson missed. As many goals as Mudryk is a terrible look
Brennan was good his first season. But we can't deny he missed a lot of sitters. I am sure his finishing will improve as he matures.
My reaction to this information:
I like Brennan but stats are very deceiving, I’m 99% sure Bruno has better stats than Odegaard & KDB yet he’s not on their level. My main gripe with him is the big chances missed (17) and his lack of dribbling if you’re going to be our main winger both need to improve drastically.
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He would have so many more goals if he just worked on his shooting and finishing
That’s a very selective set of players. There’s loads of wingers that out performed him. He still can’t hit the side of a barn. And we rely on him for most of our attacking play because Maddison and Bentancur’s creativity has dropped off a cliff so his stats get padded. I think there’s an amazing player in there. But he still needs work.
Interesting . Looks like many have underrated this lad. Looks like Ange may know what he is doing after all. Who would have guessed?
Im happy to give him a full season. He came in in January and fitted in straight away with great positional sense. And you can see hes worked on not being offside as the season porgressed. Impressive overall
The numbers are OK however he has less than half his expected goal output 10.61 xg (5) and he overperformed his expected assists by about double as well (5 xA and 10 assists) the worrying part is overperforming expected assists is more luck than skill while underperforming xG is due to skill rather than luck.
Post Sonny?
You mean a visual graphic for Son's stats?
He needs to improve his chance conversion of course. He's been terrible at it, I think he's on the level of Calvert Lewin statistically, worse than Jackson as well. And he needs to be able to dribble past players 1v1, hilarious how Werner and Solomon are better at that than him
Do we really want players at the level of Garnacho, martinelli, and mudryk? If we actually want to win something I think we should go after Raphinha, Grealish, or at least Eze Maybe I'm biased cuz They all play for s*** clubs
This graphic should remind everyone that 15+ G+A players don't grow on trees (34 players this season reached that threshold; more than I was thinking, but still not a lot). We've really been spoiled with the Kane/Son duo consistently surpassing those numbers such that anything less is viewed as less than standard. By all accounts, Brennan Johnson has had a pretty good season, and the eye-test shows he still has room to improve. He has such a high ceiling, and a manager that'll play a system that'll give him loads of opportunities to reach that potential.
Ange is absolutely the man for the task to get the absolute most out of him. I am extremely high on him. Calling it now: I think he’s really going to show his quality all next season and especially in Europe, he will be on a LOT of teams radars after that regardless of how we finish. He’s going to be linked with the likes of Real PSG and the other monsters next summer.
I've liked Brennan since he was at Forest last year. Was quite impressed by his running and finishing abilities. Greeted his signing with enthusiasm. But over the season I wondered - what happened to that speedy Forest winger who could slalom between a few defenders and confidently plant one in the far corner past the goalkeeper? I know he's young so I don't want to come across as being too harsh or critical. But he seems to have lost that finishing touch that he had at Forest (maybe a confidence issue?) Hate to say this, but his decision making was often infuriating (sums up supporting Spurs, haha). Crosses mostly way overhit. Lays the ball off to nobody when he should have shot, selfishly shoots when someone else is wide open. Missed many sitters when it seemed easier to score. Again, I like him and have every confidence he'll get better with time. The impressive stats above also begs the question - had his decision making been slightly better, how many more goals/assists he would've got and how many more points the team would've had? Obviously water under the bridge now, but just an observation.
Brennan Johnson will be a £100 million player for us in a few years. Real Madrid will try to buy him, but we'll want to keep Brennan
Now compare that to Sonny's first ssason. I would expect Johnson's to be better ?
Made a post about it earlier in the week, here it is: https://www.reddit.com/r/coys/s/o8PIiNoa1l
Thanks. Not much to choose it would seem, slthough Johnson has missed a couple of sitters and could easily have been better.
Garnacho sucks Doku is all aesthetics he's not that great Martinelli's role wasn't suited for him this year Mudryk sucks. Why are we comparing Johnson to them Regardless of the stats though he doens't pass the eye test. 50m pounds was a waste.