Yeah looks like Bellamy has absolutely seen enough. Playing a bloke without a goal in 29 without in preference.I didn’t know he was fucking dropped for WALES
Another coach who has found him out.
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Not moved on, just on the back burner while he bumbles around the medical cupboard.
I thought it was a good article. The £50m thing has really taken expectations well above his ability in truth. He's a £20m player. A squad player for a top half PL team.An article about BJ:
Brennan Johnson: What's up with Wales and Spurs 'mystery'?
Brennan Johnson should be a key player for Wales but, as well as being in and out of Spurs' team, he finds himself out of favour for his country.www.bbc.co.uk
Mate,if a scout goes and watches him there’s no way he comes back to whoever and says Johnson is worth £20 million. I’d take a quarter of that so I don’t need to suffer watching him anymore. I find it bizarre that he still starts the odd game.
I reckon at his age and with his record (which is ok, as in, he'd do a job for a bottom half PL team) ... he's probably worth around £20m, give or take. But yes, it does feel like we play him as much as we do because we spunked fifty big ones on him.
I dont understand how we paid them the amount we did. Its just not logical. The more you put in context with other Epl peers it's strange. Fishy even.
I don't think it is that fishy. We are shit at scouting.
Scouting team probably looked at goals/assists and his highlight video, which is basically all counter attacks.
We were absolutely had. That’s who we are !
Another case of us trying to go big, within our usual constraints of course, on the basis of little evidence that the guy in question is the real deal; and failing miserably.
In this case there was not even a high quality season at the top level prior like Solanke, or an international reputation that far exceeded his club one like Richarlison. Just a then 22 year old who is also homegrown, showing glimpses of a potential squad player.
Going big on middling players, which is what these guys are, is infinitely worse than going cheap.
In this case there was not even a high quality season at the top level prior like Solanke, or an international reputation that far exceeded his club one like Richarlison. Just a then 22 year old who is also homegrown, showing glimpses of a potential squad player.
Going big on middling players, which is what these guys are, is infinitely worse than going cheap.
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This is definitely the reason we targeted him and ended up overpaying.
If we get offered £20 million take their hands off!
If we could combine Johnson's best qualities with those of Kudus, we would have a player who would command and merit a 100 million fee.
Right now, and unless Johnson finds a way to do a bit more than what is still the hardest part in football (scoring goals), it won't be a regular start for club or country.
It's also an inescapable fact that following Bale, Kane and Son, for country and club, the comparisons were never going to be reasoned or reasonable.
I like Johnson but we need even more from him, and I'm not sure it will out.
Will however always be in a Prem team for the next 5 or 6 years, because he will always score goals.
Right now, and unless Johnson finds a way to do a bit more than what is still the hardest part in football (scoring goals), it won't be a regular start for club or country.
It's also an inescapable fact that following Bale, Kane and Son, for country and club, the comparisons were never going to be reasoned or reasonable.
I like Johnson but we need even more from him, and I'm not sure it will out.
Will however always be in a Prem team for the next 5 or 6 years, because he will always score goals.
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I still say play him in the middle, get him in there with the opposing CBs and tell him to give as good as he gets. Have him doing lots of tackling sessions in training with Romero and Bentancur - get some aggression into his game. Hire someone like Graham Roberts or Duncan Ferguson to mentor him.
I firmly believe that anyone with Johnson's eye for goal and ability to finish should be able to play as a central striker. When we first signed Modric, everyone thought that he wasn't strong enough to play in central midfield but it became his best position and turned him into one of the best players in the world. If players don't do anything outside of their comfort zones, they don't develop.
I firmly believe that anyone with Johnson's eye for goal and ability to finish should be able to play as a central striker. When we first signed Modric, everyone thought that he wasn't strong enough to play in central midfield but it became his best position and turned him into one of the best players in the world. If players don't do anything outside of their comfort zones, they don't develop.
It’s not the hardest part of football. There are extremely limited footballers who score goals in this league ffs. Much rarer types of player than a poacher out there, give it a rest .. this mentality belongs in the era where Inzaghi carved out a top level career.
He has 2 league goals in 12 appearances this season. Not sure about Wales. They seem to have realised he sucks too and some player from Nantes plays over him.
Garbage. More of your bias.
Name 5 so-called extremely limited players/attackers who score goals in any number?
5.
Don’t think there’s any point in training him on tackling and aggression. He’s shite at that and even training him on that constantly will only improve him to not very good.
Work on crossing, taking a man on. He’s done that before, although not often, so at least any improvement will have a greater effect.
Aggression is a thing you have. It’s in you. You can’t train that.
He seemed lively, direct and aggressive enough for forest (also kicked richy up in the air) previously. He wouldn’t be the first player to arrive at Tottenham and lose a yard of pace, and large portion of motivation and ability.
Wissa is a clumsy fucking mess of legs and scored 19 league goals ffs. Brentford have another in Schade who got 11 and can barely control a football. There’s two on the same team last season! Fucking Soucek in this league (arguably one of the worst footballers around technically) hit solid numbers repeatedly from midfield. Chris Wood and Hwang Hee Chan both hit double figures seasons previously.
The difference here is that these are units who offer aggression and an out ball. Johnson offers meekness. He has one top asset: off the ball movement. Beyond that he’s a bog standard championship winger who has been replaced in his NT by a guy with a few assists for Nantes.
The goalscoring stuff is all guff. He has less goals per 90 than Harvey Barnes in his Pl career. Less assists per 90 than Harvey Barnes. And exceeds his xG less than Barnes because Barnes is a much more varied finisher who is a threat from the edge or beyond too.
And Barnes is bang average & doesn’t start for Newcastle because he’s technically mid in possession. Same as Johnson except Johnson is more of a hider. When we finally come to sell Johnson we will take a huge hit and the clubs lining up will be poor - and the whole ‘hardest thing to do in football!’ cliche will look as stupid as it’s always sounded.