According to a report, Tottenham is now pursuing a “special” Everton target.

Everton and Tottenham Hotspur are

engaged in a fierce competition for the

Leeds United star Wilfried Gnonto.

Tottenham Hotspur is interested in Wilfried

Gnonto, and Everton may pass on the Leeds

United attacker.

Rahman Osman, a reporter for the London

World, believes that Tottenham is competing for Gnonto.

Osman states that Everton are still the

frontrunners to sign Gnonto having shown

major interest in him this summer.

Tottenham are ‘not too far behind’ though

and Gnonto wants to land a move away

from Leeds as soon as possible.

Leeds are seeking around £20million for

Gnonto and a bid will now be considered for

the Italian talent.

London World’s full report adds that Gnonto

would jump at the opportunity to move to

London and join Tottenham this summer.

Tottenham and Leeds have already struck

one deal of late with defender Joe Rodon

making a move to Elland Road.

Maybe Gnonto was discussed during those

talks with Tottenham now weighing up

whether to fight Everton for his signature.

Wilfried Gnonto an alternative to Gift Orban for Tottenham

Tottenham have sold Harry Kane to Bayern

 

Munich, losing their talismanic goalscorer

just a few days ago.

Spurs will surely look to bring in an attacker

but the rumours seem to be pointing

towards a versatile attacker rather than an

out-and-out centre forward.

Nottingham Forest attacker Brennan

Johnson is one option whilst there have

been strong links to Gent sensation Gift Orban too.

Gnonto offers another option in a similar

mould – a young talent with pace and the

versatility to play across the front line.

The 19-year-old – formerly of Inter Milan –

joined Leeds from Swiss side FC Zurich last summer.

Gnonto is a diminutive talent at just 5ft 7in

tall but caused problems for defenders last

season with two goals and four assists in 24 Premier League games.

Hailed as a ‘special talent’ by former Leeds

and Tottenham stopper Paul Robinson,

Gnonto clearly has major potential and

Ange Postecoglou may now seek to lure him to North London.

Tottenham Hotspur may be focusing most of

their attention at present on slimming down

their exceedingly bloated squad, but theyr’e

still linked with making moves for

potentially three more new players. One of

the positions they’re looking for is that of

forward and/or wide attacker, and a name

that has come up frequently as of interest is

Nottingham Forest’s Welsh international

Brennan Johnson.

But Spurs aren’t the only club potentially

interested. According to the Telegraph, West

Ham is also taking a look at Johnson as an

option to replace Lucas Paquetá, who is

closely linked with a move to Manchester

City this summer.

The Telegraph notes that Johnson was the

subject of a rejected £35m bid from

Brentford early in the summer, and that it

could take as much as £45m to get him out

of the City Ground.

 

Put me down as one who doesn’t see what

all the fuss is about Brennan Johnson. While

Johnson is still young — only 22 — and his

output can be looked at potentially as a good

player on a really crappy team, his stats just

really don’t impress that much, especially

for a player being rated at £45m. Johnson

had an exceptional season in 2021-22, the

year Forest blitzed through the

Championship, with 16g+10a but that didn’t

really translate to the Premier League last

season — 8g+3a on 52 shots and a

npxG+xA/90 of just 0.29. What he is good at

is progressive carries, with a quite good

2.64/90, so he’s adept at getting the ball

forward. You can squint and say that’s of use

in an Ange Postecoglou side and he has a lot

of room for growth, but he just doesn’t

profile as a particularly good forward at the

moment, and with Spurs looking for reliable

output to replace that lost by Harry Kane I just don’t see it.

So maybe we should be grateful that

another club like West Ham is interested in

Johnson? I’m going to go with that. I’d like to

think that Spurs’ interest in Johnson is as a

potential option in the event that we’re not

given the Gift we’re all expecting this

summer, but even so I’d like to think there

are plenty of players that would be a better

fit than Brennan Johnson, especially at that

price point. It’s a no for me, Clyde.