‘Boro are currently joint leaders of the Championship with Johnson being in particularly good form.
Although there is still talk of players moving away from the Riverside.
“We have a very strong squad,” he told the Northern Echo.
“We let Stewart Downing go, but we have a better team than most in this league but all we can do is try to perform. Our only aim is to get promotion.
“It is important that we keep this squad together, but I don’t think we can afford to think about what might or might not happen to the squad.
“There’s time left, so there is always going to be talk about different players leaving.”
