Sam Johnstone needs to leave. His head and his heart are no longer at the Hawthorns. I don’t blame him. His form over the last season and a half has been examplary but I think he’s suffering from the Valrian malaise that’s settling over the club. He’s used to seeing good teams playing proper football in front of him. I know last season was anything but successful but he had Okay, Gallagher, and Pereira pulling the strings. Remember Sam from his vantage point is seeing the game more or less as as we see it. And he is seeing all the incoherence, the lack of anything resembling a proper plan and an absolute inflexibility on the part of the manager. Okay, you’re understandably fed up Sam. So are we all. Sadly, unlike you, we don’t have the option of moving on.