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From a different perspective, if we were told that we’d spent collectively on Bissouma, Sarr, Bentancur, udogie, Maddison, Solomon and Johnson (whatever that figure turns out to be), I think we’d all sit there and think ‘seems about right’. Most of those have turned out to be absolute bargains so fair play to our recruitmentWill be typical Spurs to blow £40-50m on a player who doesn’t quite fit and isn’t at the level we need, in a key position. If we get the recruitment right out wide, our ceiling as a team will explode.
If we sign Johnson then imo we will still be looking for a winger in January or the summer once we realise he isn’t good enough. Except we probably won’t have the budget because we’d have blown £40-50m on Johnson.
So if it turns out we’ve overspent a bit on Johnson (and perhaps vdv and Porro- certainly Richarlison) then I guess we have to take the rough with the smooth.
personally I agree that nico Williams looks like the standout option at rwf (and diaby would have been good too).
But there is no denying that Johnson has desirable attributes. Much like Lennon I think it’s his acceleration rather than his top speed that is valuable here
I’m also intrigued by reports that jota is having his contract annulled in Saudi too because if he’s available I’m sure we would be interested (and linked too, previously?)