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Ex-Spurs Player Brennan Johnson
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you aint gonna win wars with wimps, hes gotta go. bottled a few duals yesterday, that will surely anger frank, as it should do! it should infuriate everyone at the club when they see someone ducking duals.
hes the only player at the club that does this now, its proper deflating to everyone, cant be having that.
hes the only player at the club that does this now, its proper deflating to everyone, cant be having that.
Ok yeah, I could see us getting 30m for him.
Thing is Johnson's a weird profile. 55m for Strand Larsen is nuts but he's a PL proven number 9 and a profile many teams want. Equally Elanga who they paid load for is a much more typical pacey winger that neatly fits into their system. I still don't really know what Johnson is: he's not a 9, 10 and lacks most of the qualities you'd want from a conventional winger. I guess a wide forward/second striker who is only good in the box or in open space?
I really struggle to see any top 10 team like Newcastle even looking twice at him as you've either gotta kinda build your attack to cater to his specific strengths or play him off a striker in a front 2. Would have to be a Brentford/Wolves/West Ham type club I think.
The depreciation is only relevant to the P and L and FFP accounting. Levy always had high prices in his head regardless of this, hence us never selling players. Hopefully we are more comfortable taking a hit on price paid and look at in deprecation terms rather than original buy price / Levy’s perceived value
Yeah when you boil it down you're still taking a 20m hit on a peak age player. You expect an older player to depreciate and cost that in when buying them.
When you buy a 22 year old you'd be hoping they at least retain their value.
Based on his general play no other club in their right mind will want him and certainly not for the 30million that is being bandied around.
Frank has already seen enough of Johnson to ensure he is not in his plans.
Playing with Johnson is like being down to 10 players.
Enough is enough cut our losses and let him go for whatever we can get.
Frank has already seen enough of Johnson to ensure he is not in his plans.
Playing with Johnson is like being down to 10 players.
Enough is enough cut our losses and let him go for whatever we can get.
Remember that Newcastle had already lost Callum Wilson and Isak was on strike, and they were sitting on a potential 125M windfall. They went into the last days of the window with no forwards and Gordon (their emergency makeshift) suspended for 3 games.
My original point was that we are bad at selling players at the right time. Johnson's stock will never be higher than it was after winning the Europa League final and hitting 18 goals last season. Even if we took a depreciation loss on him. Go back and read the comments from earlier in the window - the majority on here were outraged at even the suggestion of selling him.
That is exactly the point I was making. Hopefully Levy is no longer involved we will not keep players like Johnson (or Gil, or Ndombele or Reguilon etc.) around for years paying their salaries when they are not contributing.
His goals can be valuable to some shitshow like West Ham tbf. As utterly limited as he is, 12 PL goals is worth 30M
He’s not getting a game and when he gets five mins, he looks worse than hopeless. Why would he stay?
Has he indicated that he’s unhappy? Has the club mentioned his name when players are getting moved on? ……….the only people that are going on about him leaving or going are folk on here
He’s dreadful. Of course he’s not going to be happy with a bit part role. Kudus has clearly taken him spot
Considering he scored the winning goal in our only trophy for 15 years he’s done remarkably to be so thoroughly rejected by this fan base.
That’s a shocking state to be in.
That’s a shocking state to be in.
Yes the early signs are good for Kudus whether he keeps that up time will tell, I’m not defending Johnson he’s lightweight and certainly not a 90minutes guy but getting on his back is no helping in any way he’s a Tottenham player he should be supported wasn’t his fault he’s been landed with that price tag.
No-one gets in his back, his song is commonly sung. He’s awful. Shit on the right, even worse on the left. No effort, no flair, just a brilliant knack of scoring goals. Sell
Yep look at Richarlison. This fan base is incredibly sentimental half of these donuts were raging at me in the Europa win aftermath for saying Ange was 100% gone. Absolutely incandescent with anger at the truth. So for Johnson to have so many openly wanting him gone is a remarkable 'achievement'.