Thursday, November 12, 2009

Liverpool: That's Why We Signed Him

When Liverpool paid Portsmouth £18m for Glen Johnson more than a few eyebrows were raised and plenty of those raised were from us Reds fans. The more Johnson plays for Liverpool though the more you can see that he is becoming worth every penny that we paid for him as he adds a whole new dimension to the Reds side.

The England internationals inclusion in Fabio Capello's squad for the match against Brazil seemed strange given the fact that Johnson was injured and had missed our recent matches so returning against Birmingham seemed unlikely. The defender did return though and he showed exactly what we'd been missing in his absence as just about everything that was good about Liverpool against Birmingham came down the right side, with most of this coming through Johnson who tormented the Birmingham defence. Phillip Degen had done fairly well filling in for him but he's not the player that Johnson is really is he.

Plenty of Portsmouth fans came on onto VL when we were rumoured to be chasing their star player saying how good he was, with a number of us not seeming to appreciate this. After we signed him they returned again to VL saying how much they'd miss him and how well they thought he'd do for us and I think they are being proven right. I knew he was good from seeing him on television playing for Portsmouth and England but he's certainly better than I was expecting. He's a defender first and an attacking force second but his defending is fairly good as well, certainly better than I remembered seeing.

Keep up the good work Glen, even though the MOTM poll is saying David Ngog was the Man of the Match against Birmingham it was quite obviously you (again).

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