Player Suggestions For The 2021 Summer Transfer Window

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Im at the point with Johnson where if he isnt going to sign a contract that protects the club's investment in him then he needs to be escorted to the door. He's not the next Ronaldo even if his dad thinks he is.  We'll get by without him and he'll be free to go amd play for Brentford reserves. No one player is bigger than the club especially one that to date has only put in a handful of questionable performances in for it.

As hinted at by someone else, I'm sure once the window closes and he hasn't got the option of a move it'll be easier to get the contract signed. He'd only be losing himself income at that point

Or he'll be 1 step closer to forcing a move away from the club...

Surely, if the window is closed he physically couldn't move so aside from having one less week on his contract I'm not sure how that would be the case?

Say he's on around 5-10k now and a new contract would be 3 times that (I don't know what the going rate is). For the next three months he'd be down a few 100k theoretically. Probably gives us a little more leverage if anything. He's still got 2 years left too not one so there is no major rush. I'm confident it'll be sorted during the international break.

Or we'll get a big offer and sell...(I hope not, would be a bit gutted)

It means that he's down to 18 months left on his contract in Jan, which is the next time we can sell him thus probably reducing what we could possibly get. If he/his dad is thinking long term, that couple of 100k could be relatively insignificant. I dunno - just playing devil's advocate, I think he will sign a new contract, I think both he and his dad want to stay.

But do they want to stay, pick up the decent money and then dictate the favourable terms on which they then leave in the future?  In my book you earn the right to dictate those kinds of things when you've proved your worth on the pitch. And especially not when you've not made one iota of an impression on the first team at any stage in your short career. It's not like he's Rooney leaving Everton to go to Man Utd.