It is honestly going to take a lot longer than any Tottenham Hotspur supporter would like to admit for this club to truly turn things around and become a top four team in the Premier League again, because as the 2025/26 season is showing everyone, Spurs have fallen very hard in terms of their quality and mentality.
So much has to change about how this club is fundamentally run from the way they are coached, to the way the players approach the games philosophically, to the personnel decisions that are made by the front office in terms of recruitment.
Tottenham keep telling fans that a change is coming and that things will be different in the future, even finally firing Daniel Levy this past summer transfer window. Yet at the end of the day, all Tottenham fans see before them is the same old Spurs.
Fabrizio Romano has confirmed the transfer
Well, to kick off the winter transfer window, Tottenham are actually making moves that show important progress in an underrated aspect of a club's success: selling players. After notching their first Here We Go of the window by finding a new loan destination for the unwanted Manor Solomon, Spurs have made their first permanent transfer of the window, too.
As was rumored heavily, Brennan Johnson will indeed be heading to Crystal Palace this January, as Fabrizio Romano has green lit this Premier League blockbuster transfer between London rivals with his fabled Here We Go.
Tottenham Hotspur and Palace had already agreed to terms on the transfer, and, now, Fab says that Johnson has said his yes to "personal terms" with the Eagles. Spurs will get 33.5 million pounds out of the deal, and while that is a little less than the 35 million pounds everyone thought, it is more money than Johnson would have been worth to them as a backup right winger - and even a third stringer once Dejan Kulusevski returns from a knee injury.
While there was nothing unexpected about Johnson getting sold to Crystal Palace this winter, the transfer shows an important change in approach by Tottenham. In the past, Tottenham would have held onto Johnson until he rotted away on the bench without playing and then would have gotten maybe 20 million pounds out of him.
Now, Spurs are getting a pretty decent fee for a player who is pretty good and holds sentimental value for them, but, in all reality, is not good enough to be a true star forward at the Premier League level and therefore would not fit Spurs future goal of being a top four team again.