Thought I'd throw this in having seen a similar poll for Jack Hendry. Was astounded to read this morning that johnston has now racked up 59 appearances in the hoops. I agree with "wheres ra burds" that hes too lightweight and against the rangers pushed off the ball too easily. He has talent but is he really Celtic first team quality? Right now , probably aye but next season? Those 59 appearances mustve passed me by. 2017 his 1st appearance. For me hes a luxury player who does well in a winning fluent Celtic side. When the coin flips hes nowhere yet still came on before Griffiths and ajetti at the bigotdome and that had me spitting fire at the telly ( sorry telly) I think we should punt .
I think the position we now find ourselves in winter it would be madness to think of punting the younger players like Mikey and hendry just yet.
We have to nearly rebuild a whole new squad for next season and don't think we have that luxury to do so with the amount of players required.
The more experienced players with the likes of Rogic, griff and Bitton etc who I believe have no longer got anything to offer to improve the team so don't see the sence of keeping them.
The younger experienced players like ntcham, boli, Christie etc seem to have developed such a bad attitude that I don't see the sense of keeping hold of either.
For the likes of Johnstone, hendry, Luca, Henderson etc now is the time to either step up next season or move on. May be only squad players but with a proper management and coaching team put in place will give us these answers next season, so believe it would be to early to punt them just yet.
As for Johnstone, I still think with the amount of games he has missed a decent run of games is required as still a long way short of being an automatic starter still.
Hope we can get in players where we could loan him out until Christmas and see what he has got to offer from there if anything when we take him back.
A huge season ahead for some of these younger players ahead and weather they can really make it at the club and deserve to be given the opportunity to see if they can hit the heights required, as just getting rid increases the amount of players required as there will also be mistakes made in the transfer market as there always is, just we have made far to many of late and hoping with PL traitor out of the door that this improves dramatically.