Mikey Johnston

Good news, hopefully that's the ongoing issue resolved . He will have a big part to play this season,

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Get him back and ready to go.

 

Hoping they’ve solved his calf? problem, bhoy does get kicked a lot but playing for the hoops he better get used to assault by hammer-chuckers, hope he’s not another player who misses chunks of each season with niggling injuries

 

I like Mikey, but, he’s is far too lighthweight and doesn’t really have a bit of dig about him, for want of a better term.

I think of Forrest when the rat was here and his tracking back and defensive work and I couldn’t imagine Mikey putting that sort of graft in.

 

Johnston was superb at Ibrox in the 2-0 game in every aspect, backed Boli up on several occasions and tracked Tavernier every time.

Also, Forrest didn’t always have that attitude. In the Deila era my overriding memory of him is sitting down claiming for fouls whilst the other team broke on us.

Rodgers transformed that side of him.

 

Not as long as I thought it would be, we have enough players to cover until he returns, providing he doesn't breakdown thereafter of course

 

Agree just think with his recurring injuries even when he's fit he'll struggle to get mo out the team, build confidence and match fitness with wee 6 month loan, I'd love to see him play every week asap.

 

I’m willing to give him as much time as he needs, mate, but, you can’t be using that as an example of why he’ll be a success here. He’s far too lightweight.

Forrest adapted his game and attitude and became an integral part of every one of the last 10 seasons. I can’t imagine the wee man doing the same but I hope I’m wrong.

 

I wish the boy a speedy recovery and hipe it solves his injury problems but in the mean time we really need to bring someone in in loan or something because who do we have who can play here dembele christie maybe Ntcham 1 is still in development 1 probably starting cam and the other is our back up cam/ holding midfielder

 

Christie and Ntcham are both best through the middle and Dembele is a wee guy. They have absolutely fuckall in common wae Mikey. We have El Younoussi

 

Hes a special talent we need to take advantage of.

Grit , bite and dig are buzzwords that get flung about in Scottish football all the time but in reality we have plenty of that. What we need more of is technique and finesse.

When we are getting put out in Europe it won’t be because we didn’t have enough dig or bite. Imo that kind of attitude has held us back for too long.

If he can stay fit he will be one of our best players.

 

It's no secret I love him. I think he's an absolutely phenomenal talent and one of the best we've produced for a long time..

His injuries/breaking down are a concern though. He needs some sort of Christie regime for a year or 2 to bulk up/become more of an athlete..

4/6 week's isn't too bad. Sounded like he was gonna be out for 3/4 month's..

Should be eased back in. He'll be a big asset for the 10.. . as long as he stays injury free..

 

Leaves us short of love, very few have the imagination to have a go.

 

I appreaciate Rodgers as a very capable attacking minded manager but I don't like the idea he found Forrest and Broony. Ronny overplayed Broony a player who would have won the Somme, we all knew Jamesy had confidence issues and to attributive to one man I think is wrong. He maybe said the right words but we all knew that's all he needed. I think was actually happened was Jamesy was young and unconfident and as he matured like we all do he found his personality and decided to relax rather rather than panic. Broony was always good so there's no credit there. Rodgers is an excellent manager but he's overrated, not by us, by himself, he * off because he shat it in case he lost the 10 for fear of his reputation and the lost of the room.

Mikey has all the qualities and he wants to play for us. Imagine it all came together for us, size doesn't matter when you have anticipation.

 

I agree here that MJ clearly has bags of ability and I believe as he gets more opportunities will continue to develop.

I do hope he uses the recovery time wisely to work on his strength as that would make him a better player, my only criticism of MJ is that he can be bullied out of a game at times particularly the games with them.

The tactic used against him was to get tight and press him aggressively before he could get turned. With his skills if Mikey had the strength to hold off the full back he could then turn them inside out and take this tactic out of the game either levelling the full back in his wake or having them back off for fear of this happening to them giving Mikey more time on the ball to drive at defences.

 

Should be back from injury soon, any update?
Could do with him back as we are thin on the ground left flank.