{"id":430573,"date":"2011-05-26T09:43:24","date_gmt":"2011-05-26T09:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/26\/johnson-set-to-leave-leeds-united\/"},"modified":"2011-05-26T09:43:24","modified_gmt":"2011-05-26T09:43:24","slug":"johnson-set-to-leave-leeds-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/26\/johnson-set-to-leave-leeds-united\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnson set to leave Leeds United"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" align=\"right\" width=\"226\" cellpadding=\"0\" readability=\"1\">\n<tr readability=\"2\">\n<td readability=\"4\">\n<div readability=\"7\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/53004000\/jpg\/_53004584_johnson.jpg\" width=\"226\" height=\"170\" alt=\"Bradley Johnson\" border=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Johnson has scored 17 goals in his Leeds career<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>Bradley Johnson looks to have played his last game for Leeds United.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The midfielder, 24, has turned down a new deal at Elland Road and according to his agent has received other offers, including two from the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>Manager Simon Grayson told the club website: &#8220;It&#8217;s disappointing but it looks like Bradley won&#8217;t be re-signing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a situation we wanted resolving as a club because we are looking ahead to next season. We felt we made the player a suitable offer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Grayson added: &#8220;I&#8217;d like to thank Bradley for his contribution while I&#8217;ve been here, but the contractual situation that we work in nowadays means that players have the ability to make choices such as this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Johnson joined Leeds from Northampton Town for an undisclosed fee in January 2008 and went on to make 24 appearances that season.<\/p>\n<p>He found first-team opportunities limited during his first full season and joined Brighton on loan.<\/p>\n<p>But after the sacking of Gary McAllister as Leeds manager in December 2008, Johnson established himself as a regular under new boss Grayson.<\/p>\n<p>Last season he made a total of 44 appearances for the club as they narrowly missed out on the Championship play-offs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/shared\/img\/o.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"10\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<div readability=\"3.46775844422\">\n<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.bbc.co.uk\/o.gif?~RS~s~RS~Sport~RS~t~RS~_SportRegChk~RS~i~RS~(none)~RS~a~RS~Domestic~RS~q~RS~~RS~z~RS~15~RS~\"%20height=\"1\"%20width=\"2\"%20alt=\"\"%20\/%3E%3C\/p%3E%3C!--%20E%20BO%20--%3E%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3C\/div%3E%3Cimg%20src=\" width=\"1\" height=\"10\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>see also<\/p>\n<hr class=\"pufff\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/shared\/img\/o.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"10\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>related bbc links:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/shared\/img\/o.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"5\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>related internet links:<\/p>\n<p>The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/shared\/img\/o.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"10\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>FROM OTHER SPORT SITES<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/c.moreover.com\/click\/here.pl?z4672411148&#038;z=1250248740\">Telegraph<\/a>\u00a0<span>Norwich manager Paul Lambert says leaving Carrow Road was &#8216;never an option&#8217;\u00a0&#8211;\u00a01 hr ago<\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/shared\/img\/o.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"10\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>See original here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/go\/rss\/-\/sport1\/hi\/football\/teams\/l\/leeds_united\/9497466.stm\" title=\"Johnson set to leave Leeds United\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Johnson set to leave Leeds United<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Johnson has scored 17 goals in his Leeds career Bradley Johnson looks to have played his last game for Leeds United. 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