Interest in Tottenham forward Brennan Johnson is mounting ahead of the January transfer window with Crystal Palace among his growing list of admirers
Thomas Frank has indicated he would like to keep Brennan Johnson at Tottenham in January - despite growing transfer interest in the out-of-favour Welshman.
Crystal Palace are understood to be leading the charge for the 24-year-old, who joined Spurs for £47.5million from Nottingham Forest in September 2023.
Frank said when asked whether Johnson could depart, providing the financials were right: "Overall, I’m happy with Brennan. He trained well today.
“We mentioned before that he has played some very good games on the right and [Mohammed] Kudus has come in, so that’s been a little bit of bigger competition there, not that he can’t play to the left. “In general I’m happy with Brennan. We haven’t done too much in terms of [preparation for moving] players out. I think he’s a big part of what we have when we’re playing a lot of games."
While Frank claims he'd like to retain the versatile forward's services, Johnson has been an unused substitute in two of the past four Premier League matches.
When pushed on whether he'd like to keep hold of the Wales international, Frank replied: “Yeah, I think we will be playing a lot of games so it’s important to have enough to shoot with."
He added when asked whether he would accept the prospect of Johnson eyeing a new challenge due to his lack of minutes: "I will not speak about Brennan, but I think any player that maybe does not play all the time will probably always have a thought about that, but we need more than 11 players."
Johnson's Tottenham contract runs until the summer of 2029 and Frank is also hopeful the club will recruit new players this winter.
The Spurs head coach said: "We will 100 per cent be in the market and be ready and if we can find the player or players to improve the team we should be ready for that.
"If we can’t and we know the January window is super super complex and a difficult window, I don’t think we should use money on a player we don’t really believe in, who can’t really move the needle.
"Because will that be a little bit helpful for maybe the next six months but doesn’t do anything long term? Then I’m not interested. For me we need to think now we need to win tomorrow and then we need to make good decisions for the long term. If we don’t do that there is no chance we can fulfil the potential of this club."