So you don’t rate him then if you don’t want him centre or right?
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Ex-Spurs Player Brennan Johnson
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So you don’t rate him then if you don’t want him centre or right?
Where else can he play?
For another team.
No I don't.
The guy gives 100% and more, he has skills, but he is a headless chicken most of the time, making the wrong decisions time and time again. He loses the ball an awful lot, and he is just so predictable and easy to defend against. Especially on the right.
He just ain't good enough. If you could merge, Johnson and Kulu, that would be great. Kuluson.
It's just a shame that those two players have serious flaws you just can't ignore.
Kulusevski is still a good player to have on the squad. He just shouldn’t be playing 90 minutes every match like Ange had him doing.
His stats from yesterday. He has played 5 times for us this season including 3 starts for a total of 240 minutes. In fairness to him in that time he has 2 goals which is a great return per minutes. He also only has 20 touches, no assists and no big chances created across those minutes.
Il never disrespect him because of his contribution to the Europa League win but he simply has to be moved on.
Fucking hell,that is grim. Could you put up Xavi’s to see what a sub should be doing.
No doubt that we overpaid for Johnson. The way Ange played was great for him as we attacked down the left, Solanke would make a run into the left of the box leaving Johnson to come in from the right for a finish. Yesterday Udogie was often in down the left but nothing came of the crosses. . Would Johnson have got on the end of some of them. Frank tried to buy Johnson for Brentford but seems to be easing him out. Ange might come in for him.
One touch every 12 minutes this season. Jesus wept.
We have always been bad at selling players whilst their stock is high but we can improve out team for greater need. In the summer we should have moved him and think we could have got our money back (after 2 years depreciation). That money would have given us enough funds to have been in a position to over bid for Savinho (we also could not have made Tel permanent and used those funds). I'll blame Levy as he was here then and is now not. The way we play now, I cannot see BJ starting ahead of Kudus, Muani or Kulusevski at RWF. Just imagien how poor we would have been yesterday withe the same starting XI but Johnson in for Kudus?
Not sure who would pay us 40-50m. Feel like our best bet would be a desperate bottom half club that plays on the break. If we're lucky we might be able to sell him to West Ham if they end up with Nuno - can't think of any other clubs dumb enough to spend that much on him.
I suspect he'll be exactly the type of player we'll struggle to sell. He won't want to take a step down and he won't get Spurs wages anywhere else. Probably have to take big hit to get him out the door.
Interesting times for Johnson.
He scores goals but could end up last in the rotations for attackers.
He scores goals but could end up last in the rotations for attackers.
Another one we’ll lose millions on. You send any scout to watch him and he’ll come away and tell his club to don’t be so fucking stupid!!
Yeah he was a weird signing to begin with. Felt like another classic opportunist Levy move: homegrown, available a bit cheaper (lol) due to Forest's financial issues but not suited to Ange's style and obviously limited. For all his failings, Ange did do well to get so many assists (season 1) and goals (season 2) out of him. Building an attack around BJ tap-ins and crosses obviously isn't great though.
Feel like that's the case with so many of our middling/failed signings: Sissoko, Rich, Solomon, Johnson, Aurier etc. Levy feeling like he can take advantage of a situation to save a few quid but ends up with a flawed player who isn't really what we need or what the manager asked for.
The key part was "after 2 years depreciation". Typically players value depreciates over the course of their contract, also known as player amortization. For example, if a new player is signed for £100m on a five-year contract, amortisation means that fee is listed as £20m per year for five years in the books. Johnson signed for us for £47.5M pounds and signed a 6-year contract. So if we got £31.5M for him in the last window we'd have balanced the books on him. I actually think that, as his stock was high coming out of last season, and there were a dearth of forwards available this summer, we'd have easily got more than that. Newcastle offered £55m for Wolve's Strand Larsen in August despite him only joining them from Celta Viga for £23M in July.
