Brennan Johnson

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Maybe thats a tpuch optimistic but think we will still get the £18M that was on the table in January.

Im just hoping thats irrelevant. Win our next 4 games and he will sign a PL contract with us.

Assuming a sale is to take place this summer, the modest length of his contract is only relevant to a buying club if they're daring enough to take the risk of waiting for his contract to expire, like we seem to be with Jed Wallace. As Brennan's a hot prospect, if one club is prepared to wait, another wont be and that club will pay a decent fee to secure his services. I think we'll get top dollar if we circulate his availability this summer. Maybe that's even happened already? I'd set the level high and see if there's any nibblers on the line. 

Brennan seeing out his contract would mean another 12 months of earning low money. And it's probably really low compared to the other players, I bet he's only earning £3 or 4k p/w at the moment. The loss in wages by staying put might be £2m alone so it's not necessarily the obvious thing for them to do. And that would be on top of the money he's not earned this season by refusing to sign a contract. So the sweet spot for both parties is this summer.