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Ex-Spurs Player Brennan Johnson
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It’s not a loss though in football accounting terms. We bought him for £47.5m two and a half years ago. His value has depreciated since then by almost half (book value is thus ~£24m). So in PSR terms we’re making a small profit of £11m).
Thats all irrelevant. Its about goals and assists. So far he has 6 goal involvements in half a season being a starterAfter GW17 he was in the top 10 for take-ons, duels won, possession won, and assists.
He might not be playing that well on the eye, but on paper he's doing pretty well
Would we be able to field a team if that were to happen?
Nope, so I am going to wait before jumping for joy about any players we sell or buy under. Frank's tenure
When I start to see player development, I might be more excited about the idea of us letting players go because right now, only a fool would back Frank's judgement on players too much..
In the right system he is effective, but he has a lot of limitations as a player. He's just not a Spurs player though.
I have no idea what system the current manager wants us to play, but it is clear that he does not want BJ. Selling him is an indication that the board, for now at least, is backing Frank. Selling him is the right call. Backing Frank is not.
I have no idea what system the current manager wants us to play, but it is clear that he does not want BJ. Selling him is an indication that the board, for now at least, is backing Frank. Selling him is the right call. Backing Frank is not.
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Johnson scored lots of goals last season and still had detractors.
My point is that statistics tell only part of any picture.
Goals win games. Its that simple.
The transfer fee we paid for Brennan had a lot to do with Forest needing the money and they were happy to risk the points penalty which they got to get the extra money, Ange wanted him so we paid over the top for him.
Extract from a report regarding Forest and Johnson.
Key facts
Extract from a report regarding Forest and Johnson.
Key facts
- The club was found to have significantly breached PSR over the accounting period covering the past three seasons (2020/21 – 2022/23).
- The transfer of Brennan Johnson was the key factor in enabling the club to comply with, or breach, PSR.
- Atletico Madrid submitted a conditional bid of €50m for Brennan Johnson on the PSR deadline date 30 June 2023.
- Brentford FC submitted bids for the player of £32,5m, £35m and £40m in July and August 2023.
- Brennan Johnson moved to Tottenham Hotspur on 1 September 2023 for a fee of £47.5m
I know and that's my point. Johnson,given a fair chance scores goals. Clearly not seen as enough, which is fine but if we replace him with some fancy dan winger who barely troubles the net, I will just shake my head.
I can only assume we have goals and more as an expectation in any player we are pursuing, because this is a Frank-inspired sale, so the club are backing his judgement, yet another club's manager is obviously in disagreement
After GW17 he was in the top 10 for take-ons, duels won, possession won, and assists.
He might not be playing that well on the eye, but on paper he's doing pretty well
Maybe he should play CM, because those numbers are nice, but let's be honest he's very been very underwhelming as an attacking player. Looks like the second coming of Lucas Moura
Hopefully we're selling to make way for some serious signings this window.
Mickey! Was there last night.
He is also being triple marked cause he's the only threat. If we sell Johnson and get a proper LW on Kudus calibre for the other side you will see his involvement skyrocket as they cant just ignore a whole side of the pitch
Rich is 6th highest scorer and Kudus is 3rd highest assister
Suggests to me the rest of the team aren't pulling their weight
Surely though if he is surpass to requirements for the new manager , it’s not unfair to ask how we are intending to replace his goal contributions for the team?
Getting rid of him is fair enough however To be half way through the season and have OG as our joint second scorer whilst binning off last seasons top Goalscorer just seems bizarre
I’m fucking amazed at this place sometimes. Do other teams forums argue about this too?
What about other sports? I don’t get rugby, but imagine the speedy wee fuckers are scoring the points and the big cunts are doing the defending? Are top quality batsmen in cricket derided because they can’t bowl? All US sports seem to have specialist positions, is it just us that now want every player to do everything?
Johnson is utterly shite at so many things, but seems pretty decent at the old fashioned scoring goals thing.
We’ve lost the point of this sport. I pine for the days you’d se an attacker doing fuck all except scoring. That’s his job.