Football at it's most base level is about balance. It's why we have players suited to different tasks situated across the pitch. Johnson does indeed score a certain type of chance but to get those goals means we sacrifice too much due to everything else about his game being so poor. So for me the loss of balance isn't compensated by the goals he scores, because the goals he does score are as much down to the rest of the team's work as they are to his movement and finishing. He isn't able to affect a game independently of the work of others so the loss of balance isn't worth it with him, because despite his 14 goals we still finished 17th in the league, something he contributed to in part due to his very low involvement numbers, his inability to keep the ball and his inability to progress the play, if he doesn't lose it immediately he just passes backwards killing the moment and often the momentum. Essentially playing with 10 men when he's on the pitch leads directly to the performances and losses we saw so often last season and we've seen bits of it again this season already.
