Adam Johnson coming in on loan?

Adam Johnson to sign for in Summer 2012 Transfer Window:

Everton 1/1
Liverpool 9/4
Tottenham 6/1

Sunderland 11/1
Aston Villa 14/1
QPR 20/1
Stoke 20/1
Fulham 50/1
Lille 50/1
West Ham 50/1

Also heard that Jags and Adam Johnson have hardly left each others side at England training. Read into that what you will.

"Everton are hopeful that Johnson will not be the only City player arriving on loan, with Moyes also eyeing deals for striker John Guidetti and defender Dedryck Boyata."

I also heard that Dempsey had been in talks with the club.

Whether true or not or whether they will not mature into deals I would not like to say but they would address the balance of our team so here is hoping.

If we really do want City players, anyone acting professionally would have included our demands as part of the Rodwell negotiations.

This wouldn’t exactly be exactly rocket salad, or, to cite John Cleese, a pictorial proposition by Ludwig Wittgenstein.

It says a great deal that I always now sniff incompetence whenever we are in negotiations. Oh for the days of John Moores and how we used to handle transfers.

Hi Brian Marwood? Yeah Bobby Elstone here. I demand you pay 50% of Johnsons wages for the season or were pulling the plug on the loan deal!!

Yeah, we drive a real hard bargin. Would love it to happen but I aint even considering it.

Clubs who arent complete piss takers may wanna loan him and, gasp, even pay him the going rate!

They got him for a steal initially as well, about 7's I think. A mate of mine had been going on about getting him for months when it was looking like he was leaving Boro. He is exactly what we need. Great to watch as well.

Despite my cynicism regarding our cost cutting, the only way to get Johnson is as part of a bigger swap than the Rodders deal, or a loan.

Hi Brian Marwood? Yeah Bobby Elstone here. I demand you pay 50% of Johnsons wages for the season or were pulling the plug on the loan deal!!

Yeah, we drive a real hard bargin. Would love it to happen but I aint even considering it.

Clubs who arent complete piss takers may wanna loan him and, gasp, even pay him the going rate!

They are still paying Santa Cruz a reported 80k a week and a spurs mate of mine told me they offereded to pay 60k/week of Abebayor's wages to get him sold to Spurs, Spurs would pay him 110k/week (their max) so that he wouldn't have to take a pay cut on his current 170k week! He apparently doesnt want to take the deal though as he doesnt want a 60k/week pay cut in two years time (spurs would offer him a 4 year deal but he only has 2 years left on his city deal)).

I think we could get Johnson in with City still paying some of his reported 80k/week wages.

They are lovers? Pie-in-the-SkyBet.com are offering odds of 1/5 on them tying the knot before Christmas. Apparently they have been spotted house hunting for a love nest in Cheshire.

More chance of Michael Johnson signing from City.

He's a good player and his old fells loves the Blues, now I know that mightn't carry much weight with the people who actually make the decisions to buy but to us fans loyalty, being a hard grafter, having a fair bit of skill and having a player come out and say that kind of stuff does mean something!
A perfect replacement for Rodwell, Young, and with the potential to be a loyal addition to the squad.

Skybet putting 1/5 on something happening means they've fulfilled their allocation on the 'book' for that selection. If betting trends turned and people backed 2nd 3rd in the book then the 1/5 would shorten, as Skybet want to make the price as tempting as possible. As a novelty market doesn't have much money in it, relatively small bets affect the odds offered by the bookmaker much more dramatically. 5 x £50 bets on a novelty selection could sway something from evens to 1/5. 5 x £50 bets on the 2nd favourite at the Grand National, obviously won't have any impact whatsoever as it is a drop in the ocean in relation to the book.

He's at the wrong Manchester club, at Utd he'd be first name on the England sheet Mancini has shredded him at City.

If Moyes brought him here and got him playing to his true potential I'd go round and apologise - honest - offer to clean his car an' everything.

I heard from a good source that when they were discussing Rodwell over the last 2 weeks Johnson had discussuions with Everton but could not agree wages.

I really wish the FA would prevent clubs like City and Chelsea offering ludicrous wages and signing up all the talent then not playing them.

I used to play wide left - although, to be fair, that was a few years ago...

What are my salary expectations? How does £576.92 a week sound? £30,000 a year would do me fine. And for that I'd bring in some biscuits every Friday and share them around at elevenses.

If we brought those two in I'd be well chuffed.

Completely different kettle of fish.

One I feel Mojo himself would have been partial to, after a team bonding session on the ale and a nice smoke.

Remember when he had a black eye and tried to make out he had been playing with his daughter and was accidently butted by her wooden rocking horse?

Couple of tales from Evertons "legendary" early 90's pre/post season tours under Kendall in Mark Wards book are nuts. In fact just playing for Kendall in the early 90's sounds nuts!!

Seriously, though, finances aside, Adam J is absolutely not a Moyes type of player so I can't see it happening. He has a bit of a run and a dribble, adopts double the teapot position then trots around for a bit. He'd be deaf in one ear by the time Dour Davie had finished with him.

Apart from which, we've already had one AJ. (Yup, we forgot Andy Johnson!)

One I feel Mojo himself would have been partial to, after a team bonding session on the ale and a nice smoke.

Remember when he had a black eye and tried to make out he had been playing with his daughter and was accidently butted by her wooden rocking horse?

Couple of tales from Evertons "legendary" early 90's pre/post season tours under Kendall in Mark Wards book are nuts. In fact just playing for Kendall in the early 90's sounds nuts!!

Great young playmaker available on loan. 23 years old. Arteta but better.

According to all press reports Arsenal, AC mIlan and similar clubs are after him on loan. Maybe he just has a loud mouth agent but if not and they are actualy after him I doubt we would have much hope of outbidding them, even for a loan signing

Catterick was in charge until 1974 so it was him.

Here is a link to the contract letter between Everton and Ipswich for the exchange.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:David_Johnson_transfer_letter.JPG

If only things were that simple now!!!

Yeah, David Johnson. Him with the muzzie!

Lyndon B Johnson was a Democrat so therefore "on the left" - he'd fit in nicely with his great-nephew Leighton, I reckon. Not sure we should go down that road, though. Otherwise, we'll be snapping up that little Italian fella to fill the vacancy on the right. What's his name? Oh yeah, Mussolini.

I must admit, I am a bit Johnson-centric. That girl who won the Taekwando gold medal - I was sure she was Jade Johnson! Turns out she's a Jones. Despite a mountain of evidence to the contrary, I just automatically think anyone who's any good is called Johnson.

So (he said, contradicting what he'd said earlier), Adam Johnson - get him in. Also, counter-intuitively, Roger Johnson - who had a stinker last season for Wolves but was decent for Birmingham before that). Not Glen Johnson though, obviously...

(cue Blazing Saddles snippet too long for me to type - although Gabby Johnson's authentic frontier gibberish often makes a lot more sense than many of the posters on here - present company etc etc....)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NaQxUEfxt0&feature=fvwrel

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