SPECULATION - Adam Johnson

[TBM]

He's without a club at the mo......could be worth a punt in 9 months time?

[linkenholtroyal]

na it would cost to much for the supervision round the womens youth development squad.......

[Kuhl_Runnings]

He'd probably love playing in front of the North Stand.

[Royal Ginger]

Pre-season trip to Thailand? Asking for trouble

[JIM]

we cant wait 14 years for his release.

[tidus_mi2]

Don't touch this guy with a 50ft pole, if Ched Evans was poison for a football club, this guy is radioactive waste.

[percy_freeman]

He's going to Man Utd. As soon as he heard they had players Young, Blind and Keane it was a no brainer!

[Maneki Neko]

Id be happy to have him here tbh.
Sleeping with a 15 yr old girl is hardly the worst kind of paedoing

[linkenholtroyal]

Actually you do have a point she could have lied about her age or be 15 and 364 days one more day and shes legal. It is hard to judge without knowing the full story. It is very easy to wave the waggy finger without knowing everything.

[Maneki Neko]

tbf the prosecution say he knew full well she was under age.
but still
they would say that

[maffff]

His text messages prove he knew, and it was nearly a year until her birthday. Allegedly.

[Tommio]

Id be happy to have him here tbh.
Sleeping with a 15 yr old girl is hardly the worst kind of paedoing

After seeing his texts there's no defending him. Disgusting man

[Jagermesiter1871]

Either way it's a bit weird for a 28 year old to be sleeping with a 16 year old.

[Mr.Swainey]

Actually you do have a point she could have lied about her age or be 15 and 364 days one more day and shes legal. It is hard to judge without knowing the full story. It is very easy to wave the waggy finger without knowing everything.

[Maneki Neko]

My m8 Phil went out with a 17yr old bird when he was 27. They went out for ten years. No one thought anything of it really. she was exeptionally fit, and we did call him paedo Phil after that

[From Despair To Where?]

Actually you do have a point she could have lied about her age or be 15 and 364 days one more day and shes legal. It is hard to judge without knowing the full story. It is very easy to wave the waggy finger without knowing everything.

Have you seen the transcripts of the texts? Why the hell do you think he pleaded guilty to two of the charges? And why would he do internet searches regarding the age of consent and the legality of sex with a minor? To be honest I reckon that with the other two charges, there's not even a question of guilt or innocence, it's a question of probably guilty or guilty beyond reasonable doubt.

From the evidence already in the public domain, he's clearly a despicably manipulative pcunt and no-one I'd want anywhere near the club.

[SCIAG]

He certainly knew he was breaking the law. No sympathy with him on that regard, and no possible way you can spin it to blame the victim.

He is not on the level of Evans or King if it's true that all he did was unbutton her jeans with her consent and pressure her for more. But I think it's harder for a football club to justify employing someone who used his position to impress and pressurise a 15 year old girl than it is to justify employing people who assaulted women away from football.

[RoyalJames101]

He certainly knew he was breaking the law. No sympathy with him on that regard, and no possible way you can spin it to blame the victim.

He is not on the level of Evans or King if it's true that all he did was unbutton her jeans with her consent and pressure her for more. But I think it's harder for a football club to justify employing someone who used his position to impress and pressurise a 15 year old girl than it is to justify employing people who assaulted women away from football.

Hasn't Evans made an appeal regarding his case? That story sounded a lot more "wishy washy" than this one and also nothing to do with age.

[SCIAG]

He certainly knew he was breaking the law. No sympathy with him on that regard, and no possible way you can spin it to blame the victim.

He is not on the level of Evans or King if it's true that all he did was unbutton her jeans with her consent and pressure her for more. But I think it's harder for a football club to justify employing someone who used his position to impress and pressurise a 15 year old girl than it is to justify employing people who assaulted women away from football.

Hasn't Evans made an appeal regarding his case? That story sounded a lot more "wishy washy" than this one and also nothing to do with age.

It wasn't wishy-washy at all, and the fact that it is "nothing to do with age" makes it imo much worse. He had sex with a woman who had not consented to it - that's rape, clear as day. He can't argue that it is a technicality.

Anyway, having read the victim's testimony in this case, I'd no longer be comfortable with the club employing Johnson unless he exhibited clear signs of reform (such as going into schools to teach about consent).

[Ian Royal]

Anyway, unless he exhibited clear signs of reform (such as going into schools to teach about consent).

Is that a joke?