Spurs could land “outstanding” £30m Johnson upgrade

There is no such thing as a escaping it: this season is popping right into a catastrophe for Tottenham Hotspur.

Ange Postecoglou’s aspect discover themselves within the backside half of the Premier League desk, with extra losses than wins to their title, and as issues stand, they appear to have an ever-growing harm listing that has completely decimated their defence.

Nevertheless, there have been a few positives to take from the marketing campaign to this point, resembling their progress within the League Cup and the truth that Dejan Kulusevski has taken a giant step ahead this 12 months, however the supervisor nonetheless wants Daniel Levy and Co to dip into the switch market this month and supply him with extra choices.

Happily, reviews from late final month did hyperlink the membership with an in-form attacker who’s gained comparisons to the Swede and may very well be a dream improve on Brennan Johnson.

Spurs’ attacking choices

So, whereas the defence has been a large downside for Spurs this season, each by way of how defenders have carried out and the variety of them who’ve been injured, the assault has usually been fairly good for the North Londoners.

For instance, the Lilywhites have already discovered the again of the web on 41 events of their 19 league video games, and there are 5 gamers with seven or extra objectives in all competitions within the squad.

Furthermore, whereas he isn’t essentially been a whole game-changer for Postecoglou this season, summer time signing Dominic Solanke has now discovered his toes within the crew and at the moment has an excellent haul of ten objectives and 5 assists to his title in simply 25 video games.

Likewise, Kulusevski, regardless of taking part in in a midfield position for a lot of the marketing campaign, already has seven objectives and eight assists in simply 28 appearances, which implies he is averaging a purpose involvement each 1.86 video games – greater than justifying the “world-class” tag given to him by expertise scout Jacek Kulig beforehand.

Lastly, whereas he could be irritating at instances and has a handful of poor video games this season, Johnson has been a helpful attacker for the supervisor, racking up a haul of 11 objectives and three assists in 28 appearances, which comes out to a mean of a purpose involvement each different sport.

Nevertheless, whereas the Welshman has been good, a participant Spurs had been linked to only a few days in the past may very well be the right improve, particularly as he is been in comparison with the unimaginable Kulusevski.

The Spurs goal who may substitute Johnson

So, to get straight to the purpose, the participant in query is Celtic star Nicholas Kühn, who, based on a report from journalist Graeme Bailey late final month, is a participant Tottenham are desirous about.

The report claimed that whereas the Scottish giants are eager to maintain the German attacker in Glasgow this month, a large supply may tempt them into promoting and, based on one other report from the Commonplace again in November, that charge may very well be as much as £30m.

Now, that is actually some huge cash for a participant from the Scottish Premiership, however given the actual fact he is outperforming Johnson and has been in comparison with Kulusevski, he may very well be value it.

So, earlier than we take a look at how he is outperforming the Welshman, it is value inspecting this comparability to the previous Juventus star and the place it comes from.

It primarily stems from FBref, which compares gamers in comparable positions in Europe’s high 5 leagues, the Champions League and Europa League then creates a listing of the ten most comparable gamers for each, and, on this occasion, has concluded that the Swede is the second most comparable attacking midfielder or winger to the German over the past twelve months.

One of the best ways to see the place this comparability has come from is to have a look at the underlying metrics by which the pair rank carefully, together with, however not restricted to, non-penalty anticipated objectives, assists, photographs on course, passing accuracy and extra, all per 90.

With that mentioned, why do we expect he may very well be an improve on Johnson? Merely put, his output for the Hoops this season has been completely sensational.

For instance, in simply 26 appearances, the “excellent” right-winger, as dubbed by former Celtic star Aiden McGeady, has scored 14 objectives and offered 11 assists, that means he is at the moment averaging a purpose involvement each 1.04 video games for the Glaswegian aspect.

Now, there may be actually one thing to be mentioned for the extent of opposition he’s dealing with north of the border, however his output is to this point forward of the previous Nottingham Forest ace’s at this second in time that this appears like a switch value taking a danger on.

In the end, Johnson has been a beneficial participant for Spurs and Postecoglou this season, however in the intervening time, it feels as if Kühn’s ceiling is simply that bit larger, and subsequently, the North Londoners ought to do what they’ll to convey him to N17 this month.