BRENNAN JOHNSON will be missed at Spurs – and it is “sod’s law” that Mohammed Kudus has picked up an injury two days after the Welshman’s exit.
That is the view of Ben Davies, who knows all about Johnson’s qualities as he plays with him for the Wales national team.
Winger Johnson was Tottenham’s top-scorer last term with 18 goals but was largely overlooked by Thomas Frank this season after the £55million summer capture of Kudus.
It led to Frank sanctioning Johnson’s £35m sale to Crystal Palace on Friday, only for Ghanaian Kudus to limp off with a left thigh issue against Sunderland on Sunday.
Davies, 32, said: “It’s sod’s law that when one guy leaves, Mo picks up something.
“Brennan is a great player, I’m lucky that I get to play with him on the national team as well as here.
“I think he’s going to be missed here but this is the business of football.
“When players aren’t playing, other suitors will come along and that’s what’s happened.”
Kudus will likely have a scan on Monday to assess the damage of his injury with Frank possibly giving an update in his pre-Bournemouth press conference.
Johnson only started six league games for Spurs this term, prompting his switch to Selhurst Park.
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But that is far more than veteran Davies has played, with this weekend’s 1-1 draw against the Black Cats the 32-year-old’s first start of the campaign.
He marked it with a goal by turning home from a first-half corner, taking Spurs’ tally of league strikes from flag-kicks this term to nine.
Spurs fans were left frustrated when Brian Brobbey snatched a point late in the second half, but Davies is seeing the positives of three games without defeat.
The ex-Swansea man added: “That’s the positive to look at but we’ve got a stretch now, I think it’s five games in 15 days where it’s intense.
“You can see at the end of that game that both sides were pretty flat out, it’s not really an excuse and we’ve got to go again in the next three days.
“To score was good, we’ve been working on set-pieces a lot and everyone has to do their job and I feel like I did mine.”
Davies has been linked in the French press to Nice during this window.
It comes as Spurs have big interest in Brazilian left-back Souza, 19, of Santos.
On the Nice talk, Davies added: “That one is out of my hands. When you’re in your 30s, you just want to play as much as you can and then go from there.
“But right now, I got a chance to play (against Sunderland) and I did my best.”