Glen Johnson has slammed former Stoke City team-mate Saido Berahino’s attitude in a brutal character assassination.

On Wednesday, the Championship club confirmed they had terminated the 26-year-old’s contract, which still had three years left to run.

Stoke wanted Berahino out after he was charged with drink-driving in February and banned for eight weeks for testing positive for drugs.

Getty Images - Getty 3 Glen Johnson says Saido Berahino has one of the most toxic attitudes he ever came across in football

They planned to sack the striker for gross misconduct, but were told it was not an option by lawyers, and have agreed to give him a £2.5MILLION pay off to get rid.

Stoke signed Berahino from West Brom for £12m in 2017, but he failed to score for TWO whole seasons in 2016/17 and 2017/18 before finally finding the net in the Championship.

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While he impressed during his early days at the Hawthorns, the latter years of his career have been littered with disciplinary issues.

And former England defender Johnson has branded the 26-year-old is one of the worst professionals he has EVER encountered in football and says he appeared to have a ‘vendetta’ against Stoke.

The former Potters star did not hold back when asked about Berahino by talkSPORT hosts Jim White and Natalie Sawyer.

On whether he liked Berahino:

“No, if I’m being brutally honest. I’ve worked with loads of players who may not have been up to the level, but they’re nice people and they work hard and try. He wasn’t at the level and he didn’t try, so it’s hard to accept.”

Asked if he had an attitude problem, he said: “Totally. Big time.”

Getty Images 3 Saido Berahino was not a popular man in the Stoke dressing room

Berahino’s toxic attitude once annoyed the ENTIRE Stoke team:

“If you were on the bench or not in the matchday squad, you’d have to run after the game. Of course, no players liked doing it because they’re angry at not playing in the first place and you may be running at 10.30pm, but they were the rules and everyone did it, but Saido would jog.

Say we had a day off the following Sunday [after a match], because Saido didn’t run, everybody had to come in on that day – even those who played.

So what happens on Sunday is we turn up for training, Saido phones in sick and there was uproar. Where do you go from that? There was total disrespect and that’s what he was like on a daily basis and the fact they paid [up his contract] with three years left to go says it all.”

Berahino appeared to have a ‘vendetta’ against Stoke:

“He had the wrong mentality and attitude from day one and for whatever reason, when he was at Stoke, he was going against the grain. If we were told to be somewhere at 10 he would turn up at ten past – it was like he had a vendetta from the start. It was strange to watch because every now and then you’d see glimpses of his talent in training and think ‘yeah, you can play’ but he didn’t ever seem to want to push himself.”

getty 3 Saido Berahino was once linked with a move to Spurs during his West From heyday – and it seems they dodged a bullet

Warns interested clubs they shouldn’t go near Berahino:

“If I was a manager or club owner, I wouldn’t take him if you paid me. The good lads I’ve mentioned wouldn’t lead by talking in the dressing room, it would be by what they did on the training pitch. When I was a kid I’d watch the first team play and see who was putting the effort in and decided I wanted to be like them. Without them knowing it I’d mimic what they were doing, so you think people do similar, but at the end of the day you can only lead a horse to water.”