Johnson made the bench but has earned his 3rd straight DNP today. Gladbach lost 1-0. Johnson has 11 starts and 7 sub appearances in 31 league matches this season.
After his contract is done next summer, it's either retirement or MLS for him. I suspect the recurring back problems he had a couple of seasons back never went completely away. It's not the sort of thing you can get 'cured'.
I had high hopes for Fabian nearly 5 years ago, coming off an impressive World Cup performance and a couple solid seasons with Hoffenheim. Unfortunately, he's only had 1 season since then where he's started even half of his club's Bundesliga games and that's now 3 or 4 seasons ago.
Shame, as I still believe a healthy FabJo is top 3 in our pool for both technical and tactical abilities. He could start at a number of positions on the best USMNT XI...that said, given his health, I'm sure he'd be happy to be a part-time player on a big team. Wish we could've had him in the fold earlier in his career
Folgende Spieler stehen der #FohlenElf für #BMGTSG nicht zur Verfügung: @stindl28 (Schienbeinbruch), @Mams_Dcr (Aufbautraining nach Muskelbündelriss), @FabianJohnson23 (Wadenzerrung), Raffael (Wadenzerrung) und Christoph Kramer (Gelbsperre). pic.twitter.com/1voGHv7njq— Borussia (@borussia) May 2, 2019
5⃣ Borussen fallen für #FCNBMG aus:❌ @stindl28 (Schienbeinbruch)❌ Raffael (Zerrung in der Wade)❌ @FabianJohnson23 (Zerrung in der Wade)❌ Patrick Herrmann (Zerrung im Oberschenkel)❌ @Mams_Dcr (Muskelbündelriss im Oberschenkel) pic.twitter.com/7heFcTIGVm— Borussia (@borussia) May 9, 2019
Johnson zurück, Hoffnung bei Herrmann - Gladbach: Gesperrter Neuhaus muss ersetzt werden #BL https://t.co/6pBFu2q4F8— kicker ⬢ Bundesliga (@kicker_BL) May 14, 2019 Returned to training
Johnson does not make the 18 for the final match of the season against Dortmund. He'll finish the season with 11 starts and 7 sub appearances.
no Gold Cup no big deal, as he's with Gladbach on their China tour. 🇨🇳✍️😀 #ChinaTour2019 pic.twitter.com/PGdNtecjFy— Borussia (@borussia) May 21, 2019
Starts in friendly: In 1️⃣5️⃣ minutes, we will be underway against @GuangzhouRFFC ⚽Today's lineup: Sippel - Johnson, Hanraths, Jantschke, Wendt - Kramer, Hofmann, Neuhaus - Herrmann, Drmic, Plea 🐎#DieFohlen #Chinatour2019 pic.twitter.com/PUJTuJOlo6— Gladbach (@borussia_en) May 22, 2019
http://www.footballshirtculture.com/19/20-Kits/borussia-monchengladbach-2019-2020-puma-home-kit.html their new kits for the season. quite an interesting look. does anyone know if smoke and monchengladbach are somehow associated?
BMG won the friendly 4-0 btw. Haven't seen any mention of Fabio in the couple of very brief match reports I saw.
This short article seems to suggest that Fab could be moving on. http://www.fussballtransfers.com/nachricht/gladbach-duo-konnte-gehen_105487
It had been reported that he and FC Cincy had reached a deal before the beginning of their first season in MLS. MLS nixed the deal saying that FC Cincy had to go through the MLS allocation order even though Cincy was not even in MLS when the deal was struck! https://sports.yahoo.com/mcintyres-...nson-fc-cincinnati-fell-though-232741388.html
will be weird to see Brooks and Chandler as the only ones left from those 4 more successful German-Americans which includes Jones and Johnson. Although Chandler has tough competition to regain his place after being out almost all season. the other guys were never really that successful or consistent.
Yep. Just goes to show the success rate is not great, no matter where you're born: German-born Germaricans who were "the next coming..." (give or take) Green Johnson Jones (and he was... just came to late.) Chandler Brooks Boyd Zelalem Williams Yeldell Wooten Heck, I've almost got a full side there!
actually Green is USA born. you also got Morales, George, Gotz, Parker Bros, Toljan, Gipson, Costly. Not bringing up the younger ones who still are trying to breakthrough pro level. in the end Jones, from the list only those 4 were consistent 1BL players. The rest were 2BL and lower or struggled in 1BL. A lot of players listed are already late 20s/30s. So one can tell more about them.
Only one to live up to the expectations was Jones. Fabian had a flash, then fizzled. The rest, meh. Even Brooks. But he has time to prove good, yet.