So, was he overpriced? Overrated? Should he instead play on the wing?

Glen Johnson wasn’t the most straightforward of signings, right from the start. Portsmouth still owed in the region of £8m for signing Peter Crouch a year earlier; money that, with hindsight, clearly wasn’t going to be paid in cash.

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