Brennan Johnson is benefiting from the “excessive” calls for positioned on him by Tottenham boss Ange Postecoglou and proving himself to be an elite participant, says his Wales supervisor Rob Web page.
Johnson has taken time to settle at Spurs following his £47.5million transfer from Nottingham Forest in the course of the closing minutes of the summer season switch window.
The 22-year-old ahead has but to attain and suffered a hamstring harm on his first Premier League begin for Tottenham, ruling him out of motion for a month.
Johnson’s second Premier League begin towards Chelsea on Monday additionally ended prematurely when he was sacrificed after Spurs have been lowered to 10 males by defender Cristian Romero’s crimson card.
However Johnson has proven indicators of promise in North London with an excellent help for Son Heung-min’s winner at Crystal Palace, whereas he additionally arrange the Spurs skipper for a disallowed effort towards Chelsea earlier than his first-half withdrawal.
“Brennan’s at a giant, large membership now pushing for high 4 so the calls for on him shall be excessive,” mentioned Web page, who welcomed Johnson again into his squad after harm for this month’s decisive Euro 2024 qualifiers towards Armenia and Turkey.
“The squad of gamers he’s obtained round him now shall be barely completely different, however I’m not involved in any respect. Even by coaching with the gamers he’s with will convey him to a different degree.
“We’ve all seen the potential. After I labored with him on the Beneath-21s and the youthful age teams, I might see he was going to go (to the highest).
“It’s taken him a bit of little bit of time to rise up to that commonplace, however he’s proven glimpses of it.
“What’s essential now’s that he sustains that degree by enjoying with these gamers and the calls for of the supervisor there. He’ll completely do this.”
Johnson has solely scored twice in 22 Wales appearances – towards Belgium and the Netherlands within the Nations League – and that may be a disappointing return for a participant thought-about to be Gareth Bale’s pure successor within the Dragons’ ahead line.
Web page instructed that’s all the way down to the way in which Wales have beforehand been structured as a workforce however he insists, as evidenced by final month’s beautiful 2-1 win over World Cup semi-finalists Croatia, they’re evolving as an attacking unit.
He mentioned: “Nearly all of the video games within the World Cup and Nations League A we have been the underdogs and never going to have a whole lot of the ball.
“Our defensive construction needs to be spot on if not you’re going to get came upon, however as we evolve I’m asking extra from the ahead gamers and we noticed that towards Croatia.
“I introduced Jack Lester in (as assistant coach), who’s top-of-the-line forwards I performed with and coaches I’ve seen. It was an space I needed to enhance and I’ve seen a distinction already.”
Wales will keep away from the play-offs in March and qualify mechanically for subsequent summer season’s Euro 2024 finals in Germany in the event that they beat Armenia in Yerevan on November 18 and Turkey in Cardiff three days later.
Web page mentioned: “I like Brennan as a 9 purely due to his tempo. He did that for us in Latvia (when Wales received 2-0 in September) and there’s not a defender on the market who’s going to need to play towards him and DJ (Daniel James) as a result of tempo frightens defenders.
“However I’m not going to pigeonhole him as a 9. He can play in any one of many entrance three positions simply.”
