Brennan Johnson

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I'd like to think with the current positivity and injection of energy around the club I think he will sign a new deal. He will not leave then for anything less than 20m.

If he wins out in the contract with us and secures his £8m release fee effectively he could leave as and when he chooses. He'd basically be in a position at every window where HE and he alone gets to decide if he's leaving or staying. The club would be mad to allow him to dictate such terms and I hope they stick to their guns.

Both parties know he's not going to get a clause below market value. An 8m clause and he just be sold for 8m straight away! I'm sure there's creative clauses they could put in depending on results.

I dont think we should sell in Jan though unless we get 15m+. We'll still get that in the summer and he's a mainstay of the team, wouldn't be able to replace him and can use him to push up the table. His value will increase if he keeps doing well and there's always a chance he signs after seeing the progression

Interesting post.  Good to read.

If the club get offered double figure millions, he's gone.

Tricky situation.  Maybe something the club and the academy could learn from.  Are we going to have future situations like this?

I do recall with Chris Bart Williams, the club refused to play him?

Doubt it will come to that as BJ offers alot to the team, at least up to January.  The impasse likely says he's moving on.

It's a precedent the club will probably not want to dwell on.  The Academy do a fine job developing 'kids' for the club and need to enjoy the fruit of that to partly sustain/fund the transfer policy.

He's replaceable.  (Though Forest's recruitment has made historical hard work of replacing the academy players through recruitment.). Forest's scouting needs to do better to have the next Brennan lined up if the answer isn't 'in house.'  Brentford managed to sell and recruit.

The club needs to be more progressive and long term with recruitment.  Seek.  Find.  And they are, allegedly, moving in that direction.  

SA.

Its the way football works. Kids come in get developed and move on. That funds football clubs. What Brennan wants to do is to take a large slice of the funds and pocket it for himself. Hes a talented lad but in my book its not yet his money to pocket. The future of the club depends on its ability to trade its assets in the market. Tom Ince is a player who had a lot of the playing characteristics that Brennan's got now and who's been advised to put money ahead of his football. What's he now? He's just a 2nd tier club's reserve player who everyone looks at and thinks he's wasted his talent. Brennan needs to take note because he seems to be treading a very similar path.