michael johnson the future england star that never was?

Yeah, he certainly went downhill. My mate works for city and just said after his injury he lost his head and started drinking a lot. Never recovered from there by the sound of it.
 
In an interview with the Manchester Evening News, Johnson revealed that he has been battling mental health problems and has spent time in the Priory.

He said: 'I am more disappointed than anyone but that’s the way it goes.

'I have been attending the Priory Clinic for a number of years now with regard to my mental health and would be grateful if I could now be left alone to live the rest of my life.'
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I thought he was a great young player what I saw of him a few years back, probably the best English all-round midfield prospect I'd spotted since Frank Lampard Jr. I was clamouring for Arsenal to buy him back in 2008, perhaps it is just as well we didn't.
 
HangTime said:
I thought he was a great young player what I saw of him a few years back, probably the best English all-round midfield prospect I'd spotted since Frank Lampard Jr. I was clamouring for Arsenal to buy him back in 2008, perhaps it is just as well we didn't.
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Moving away from Manchester might have really helped him?

But back to the OP, it is really sad and as a City fan there is an almost special attachment that we have to players who come through the academy and back then it looked like we had really found a superb player. I don't know what we did or didn't do but I would like to think that as a club we offered him everything we could and the saying "You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink" is pretty appropriate here as he just seemingly couldn't cope no matter what we did.
 
Difficult to say how he'd have got on in London; my experience of people with mental health issues is that a change of scenery doesn't fix the underlying problem, but YMMV.
 
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