DJ

[Warton PNE]

I think that if Johnson gets the offer of a nice juicy signing on fee and an extra 50% on his pay packet he will be off like a shot.

He will then all of a sudden become shit and we can do better anyway, just like Ben Pearson. 🤷‍♂️

Pearson would be, by far, our best midfielder still. He is so far clear of everyone else we have in that area.

 

[Thracia]

Last season and this, we’ve won more games (percentage wise) without DJ than with him. www.soccerbase.com

And we've lost more games (percentage wise) without DJ than with him this season too.

And while you're saying "the previous two seasons the figures were better for wins with DJ in the team, but there was only five percent in it" - well, there was only 4% in it on your "won more games without DJ" metric last season, but that has been presented here without such qualification.

Never in his career has he cracked double figures for goals from open play (although he got 12 in 19/20 with a lot of penalties).

So what? Even our strikers rarely "crack double figures from open play".

Has this hurdle been carefully set up because Alan Browne once scored 10 from open play 3 years ago?

This is all-told a very peculiarly selective set of stats.

... comparatively his figures haven’t set the world - or this team - alight on a consistent basis over the past five years.

Whose have?

Being brutal, and I don’t mean this in a bad way, he’s a mid-table playmaker in a midtable team.

To state the bleeding obvious, they're all mid-table players in a midtable team.

The idea is to ditch the shit players dragging the team down to their level, and replace them with better.

 

[Staffordwhite]

Lies, damned lies and dodgy statistics. (There’s a reason I normally leave this stuff to the kids. 🤓)

I understand the comebacks, no problem.

But I was answering @California_PNE ’s take that if you took DJ out of this team, we’d basically be screwed and that he rarely misses games.

Even with the limitations of the squad for the past two seasons, that’s not exactly been the case on either score.

Would it be a weaker squad without him?

Probably, yes. But we’d only know if/when the club replaced him. 😑

 

[SF]

DJ is good in a possession based side, a pressing side, and a counter attacking side. He's a proper talent.

 

[Mercersbus]

How people can’t see he’s basically our best player really baffles me. He’s the one player that can put his foot on the ball and hold onto it for more than a couple of seconds to calm things down.

Get rid of DJ and people will really be in for a shock I think

Mark my words

Ali Ungolo MCcanti will be our next superstar, Give him regular starts and watch !!!!

 

[Mercersbus]

Pearson would be, by far, our best midfielder still. He is so far clear of everyone else we have in that area.

Beg to differ , Ali MCcann is equal and will develop into our most prized asset !!

 

[SF]

Beg to differ , Ali MCcann is equal and will develop into our most prized asset !!

If he was as good as Pearson then he'd have started under both managers. He may be one day, but definitely not yet.

 

[Warton PNE]

Beg to differ , Ali MCcann is equal and will develop into our most prized asset !!

Ali McCann is absolutely nowhere near the level of Pearson. I swear McCann could make a 5 yard pass and he'd get compared with Romario.

 

[MrHodgeheg123]

Beg to differ , Ali MCcann is equal and will develop into our most prized asset !!

If he was as good as Pearson then he'd have started under both managers. He may be one day, but definitely not yet.

Ali McCann is absolutely nowhere near the level of Pearson. I swear McCann could make a 5 yard pass and he'd get compared with Romario.

I think we should get @BPIG - GBNF unbiased opinion on this.

 

[BPIG]

I think we should get @BPIG - GBNF unbiased opinion on this.

You know where I stand. Je Suis Ben Pearson.