Tottenham Hotspur underwent a sea of changes in the summer transfer window last year. Many of those changes were good, such as bringing in Mohammed Kudus and Xavi Simons to boost their attack, as well as waving goodbye to Daniel Levy as the club's chairman. Other moves stung, like replacing Ange Postecoglou with the eminently disappointing Thomas Frank or letting Son Heung-min finish his career off in MLS.
Just as well, not everyone has the same opinion of what is a positive or a negative transformation at the club. Take, for example, the most recent transfer decision Tottenham made when they started off the January window with a bang by selling Brennan Johnson for one of the club's highest ever fees of 33.5 million pounds.
According to reporting from Football.London's Alasdair Gold, the Johnson sale to local rivals Crystal Palace has not been met with resounding praise. Gold says that within the dressing room, Tottenham Hotspur players are upset at the club's upper management for selling Johnson because the Wales international was such a popular player.
Tottenham support their own
Like with the Ange Postecoglou firing, there was an outpouring of support from large swathes of the locker room on social media for Brennan Johnson. Obviously, Johnson is a likable bloke and scored the winner in the Europa League Final to forever etch his name in the Tottenham books, and you would expect nothing less than public praise for the player.
However, it is surprising to see that the Tottenham players do not understand the merits of why Spurs sold Johnson with a legitimate transfer offer on the table. Johnson, after all, has not been important to Tottenham this season, struggling badly off the bench or as a starter on either wing with little all around ability as a pure winger.
Tottenham have to sell at a right time and generate some sort of revenue from players who are not important to the team, and this was clearly the only time Tottenham were going to get anywhere near 30 million pounds for Johnson, a backup right winger soon to become a third stringer with Dejan Kulusevski's return to health.
It is nice that his teammates leave behind fond memories of Johnson, but Tottenham should not worry about what the players think at a time like this. The most important thing to keeping the morale up and helping the club is to invest that money in the right player and to start winning some dang games.