Glen Johnson
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He is too casual, that is the only problem with him...just because of no competition to him, he think he can do whatever he wants. So many attacks get disrupted because of his chicken head passes. I always wonder whether he thinks about football or something else when he has the ball near the opposite box, waits, waits, waits ......... .......... ......... ........ finally gives away the ball 
Lucas isn't the best defensive motherfucker in the league. He isn't even a motherfucker.
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Telegraph - Glen Johnson's £100,000 per week contract will not be renewed by Liverpool
[article=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/liverpool/10583023/Aston-Villa-expose-Liverpools-hidden-flaw-a-fragile-defence-that-cracks-under-strain.html]There were smiles in Anfield’s directors box despite Liverpool's dissatisfying draw with Aston Villa.
However, rather than John W Henry skipping back to Boston having enjoyed the kind of entertainment that has become a feature this season, it was Everton manager Roberto Martínez who was beaming following an encouraging scouting mission.
Martínez’s Everton are the next visitors to Anfield for a Merseyside derby with major consequences for the scrap for fourth. He will have been scribbling furiously in the 'plus point’ column after a flawed home display, and counting the hours until Romelu Lukaku gets here. Christian Benteke and Gabriel Agbonlahor destroyed Liverpool for 45 minutes.
Only two sides have visited this stadium this season and attacked – Villa joining Southampton in being rewarded for ambition – and it will worry Brendan Rodgers how fragile his defence is under strain.
Villa should have been four up before Daniel Sturridge started the salvage operation that ended with Steven Gerrard’s equalising penalty.
Liverpool possess one of the most exciting attacking set-ups in the Premier League but this has camouflaged an untrustworthy defence.
It was evident from the first 60 seconds that Rodgers picked the wrong formation to accommodate Sturridge’s return, Steven Gerrard asked to shield the back four while Lucas started on the bench. The experiment was abandoned after 30 minutes, Villa unlucky to be only an Andreas Weimann goal in credit at that stage.
Liverpool ended the half with Glen Johnson a temporary centre-back, 4-4-2 becoming 3-5-2. Lucas’s introduction at the start of the second half confirmed the initial error.
“For me the system is irrelevant,” Rodgers said. “But we never got control of that midfield and we couldn’t really build the game from behind.”
Rodgers’s miscalculation in trying to evolve his side is not the theory or intent, but the timing and overestimating the qualities of his defence to thrive without customary protection.
Mamadou Sakho, Daniel Agger and youngster Jon Flanagan’s reputation is enhanced every fixture they miss.
This was so bad that it made some pine for Jose Enrique.
The on-loan Aly Cissokho is an easy scapegoat but he is not Liverpool standard. Johnson is playing like he is sulking because his £100,000-a-week contract will not be renewed, while Martin Skrtel has spent the 18 months resembling an eastern European bouncer who winces at the sight of a hen party. Kolo Touré’s enthusiastic style currently induces a sense of anxiety rather than order. Even goalkeeper Simon Mignolet, who started the season so well, is building a portfolio of errors, although given what was immediately in front of him it’s no wonder he was flapping. His mistake enabled Benteke to double the lead on 35 minutes.
Liverpool’s defenders are fortunate to be playing behind the third best player in the world. In previous home games Suárez won the game before the opposition could launch an attack, but when Liverpool need to dig in they are vulnerable.
Suárez earned the penalty here – cleverly, if you are a Liverpool fan; cynically, if you are not – but Villa did not complain much. Not even Brad Guzan. He said: “I was pretty confident in myself that I hadn’t touched him so I said to him: 'Did I touch you?’ He said; 'I don’t know.’ That’s the honest truth of it. Sometimes they go for you and sometimes they don’t.”
Villa’s pace, movement and one touch football makes it bewildering they don’t win more, although Lambert believes the side is progressing quicker than many think. “People think we are doing poor and we are sitting 10th - it’s really, really incredible, the perception,” Lambert said.
Benteke repeated his display here last season, while if Agbonlahor produced this consistently he would be earning England attention. “It is baffling he is never mentioned,” said Lambert, who confirmed that Matt Lowton was absent for disciplinary reasons after missing training on Friday.
Draws like this pay the mortgage for spin doctors, managers able to disguise discontent at missing three points by accentuating the positives of one. Liverpool would have lost this fixture last year so although this result and performance puts fanciful title aspirations into perspective, it is a mere hitch in the hunt for a Champions League place.
If Martinez is still smiling after the next Anfield fixture, however, the reappraisals will start.[/article]
[article=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/liverpool/10583023/Aston-Villa-expose-Liverpools-hidden-flaw-a-fragile-defence-that-cracks-under-strain.html]There were smiles in Anfield’s directors box despite Liverpool's dissatisfying draw with Aston Villa.
However, rather than John W Henry skipping back to Boston having enjoyed the kind of entertainment that has become a feature this season, it was Everton manager Roberto Martínez who was beaming following an encouraging scouting mission.
Martínez’s Everton are the next visitors to Anfield for a Merseyside derby with major consequences for the scrap for fourth. He will have been scribbling furiously in the 'plus point’ column after a flawed home display, and counting the hours until Romelu Lukaku gets here. Christian Benteke and Gabriel Agbonlahor destroyed Liverpool for 45 minutes.
Only two sides have visited this stadium this season and attacked – Villa joining Southampton in being rewarded for ambition – and it will worry Brendan Rodgers how fragile his defence is under strain.
Villa should have been four up before Daniel Sturridge started the salvage operation that ended with Steven Gerrard’s equalising penalty.
Liverpool possess one of the most exciting attacking set-ups in the Premier League but this has camouflaged an untrustworthy defence.
It was evident from the first 60 seconds that Rodgers picked the wrong formation to accommodate Sturridge’s return, Steven Gerrard asked to shield the back four while Lucas started on the bench. The experiment was abandoned after 30 minutes, Villa unlucky to be only an Andreas Weimann goal in credit at that stage.
Liverpool ended the half with Glen Johnson a temporary centre-back, 4-4-2 becoming 3-5-2. Lucas’s introduction at the start of the second half confirmed the initial error.
“For me the system is irrelevant,” Rodgers said. “But we never got control of that midfield and we couldn’t really build the game from behind.”
Rodgers’s miscalculation in trying to evolve his side is not the theory or intent, but the timing and overestimating the qualities of his defence to thrive without customary protection.
Mamadou Sakho, Daniel Agger and youngster Jon Flanagan’s reputation is enhanced every fixture they miss.
This was so bad that it made some pine for Jose Enrique.
The on-loan Aly Cissokho is an easy scapegoat but he is not Liverpool standard. Johnson is playing like he is sulking because his £100,000-a-week contract will not be renewed, while Martin Skrtel has spent the 18 months resembling an eastern European bouncer who winces at the sight of a hen party. Kolo Touré’s enthusiastic style currently induces a sense of anxiety rather than order. Even goalkeeper Simon Mignolet, who started the season so well, is building a portfolio of errors, although given what was immediately in front of him it’s no wonder he was flapping. His mistake enabled Benteke to double the lead on 35 minutes.
Liverpool’s defenders are fortunate to be playing behind the third best player in the world. In previous home games Suárez won the game before the opposition could launch an attack, but when Liverpool need to dig in they are vulnerable.
Suárez earned the penalty here – cleverly, if you are a Liverpool fan; cynically, if you are not – but Villa did not complain much. Not even Brad Guzan. He said: “I was pretty confident in myself that I hadn’t touched him so I said to him: 'Did I touch you?’ He said; 'I don’t know.’ That’s the honest truth of it. Sometimes they go for you and sometimes they don’t.”
Villa’s pace, movement and one touch football makes it bewildering they don’t win more, although Lambert believes the side is progressing quicker than many think. “People think we are doing poor and we are sitting 10th - it’s really, really incredible, the perception,” Lambert said.
Benteke repeated his display here last season, while if Agbonlahor produced this consistently he would be earning England attention. “It is baffling he is never mentioned,” said Lambert, who confirmed that Matt Lowton was absent for disciplinary reasons after missing training on Friday.
Draws like this pay the mortgage for spin doctors, managers able to disguise discontent at missing three points by accentuating the positives of one. Liverpool would have lost this fixture last year so although this result and performance puts fanciful title aspirations into perspective, it is a mere hitch in the hunt for a Champions League place.
If Martinez is still smiling after the next Anfield fixture, however, the reappraisals will start.[/article]
It makes sense GlenJo is sulking. We are in a messy situation if we cannot sell the cunt in the Summer.
If it's true, then the question about why he's getting away with it every week becomes even more pertinent. If it's true then as soon as Flannagan is back, I hope the useless, overpriced, overpaid-for, selfish cunt never kicks a ball for us again. I hope he goes back to West Ham in the Summer, he's been the weak spot of our defense for years.
Yep, Glen Johnson is baffling me. I was always a big fan of his but not anymore. I don't think i've ever seen a player play within himself to this extent. He doesn't defend, he doesn't attack, he doesn't care. He takes throw ins and thats about that.
Pity he wouldn't do an Alonso and play out of his skin knowing a move is on the table. He'll be back at West Ham or out foreign this time next year.
Pity he wouldn't do an Alonso and play out of his skin knowing a move is on the table. He'll be back at West Ham or out foreign this time next year.
The attacking part is what really irks me. He's never been a great defender, but he's playing like a coward when he gets the ball. He rarely tries to beat his man, and will almost always pass the ball back ... The fact he's not adding anything in the attacking third is making his average (at best) defensive displays even more unacceptable.
u mean glenjo or hendo?
I'll guess Glenjo by the thread title
Twitter saying he's been shite cos he needs a knee op
I read that earlier too but not convinced. If you've got a semi-serious knee problem needing surgery it's something that can't be out off, no?
Or maybe he's just shite.
Brendan says Glen will be out for an indefinite period because of a number of injuries
If true, translation: "Suspended indefinitely for conduct detrimental to the team"
Niggling injuries would make sense like.
It'd make more sense than him playing shit cos he wants a move to another team anyway.
It'd make more sense than him playing shit cos he wants a move to another team anyway.
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