Comparing Johnson to similarly priced (or more expensive) players in the same age range, Johnson’s 8 goals and 3 assists for a bottom of the table Forest side is more single season production than Doku, Madueke, Mudryk, Ferrán Torres, and Nico Williams have ever achieved in significantly higher scoring teams in the French, Dutch, Ukrainian, and Spanish leagues. Antony’s last season at Ajax he had 8 goals and 4 assists. Anthony Gordon’s best Everton season was 4 goals, 2 assists.
Hard to escape the conclusion that people are just being snobby because he’s from the PL and UK. Players from the PL always get judged way more harshly on these boards than unknown foreign players, just look what people were saying about Maddison before we signed him.