Not but six months after Brennan Johnson moved from Tottenham Hotspur to Crystal Palace, the Welsh international is switching sides from another European championship side to another Premier League side, as Everton have just bagged the right winger. The thing is, they sent a more athletic and productive winger in Dwight McNeil back the other way to a club that has been much more successful than the Toffees lately.
It is really telling that Palace are getting rid of Johnson just a couple of months after winning a major trophy and a couple of months more than that of having him after spending a club record 35 million pounds to sign him from Spurs.
Johnson was woeful for Palace, in truth. Unlike at Tottenham in the 2024/25 Premier League season, Johnson didn't even score goals for Palace, while he was just as terrible at doing anything a winger is supposed to do like beat the man off the dribble, progress the ball, playmake and create, or track back and defend.
Brennan Johnson wasn't good enough for Tottenham
He was exactly like this for Tottenham, though he did lead the team in goals in the 2024/25 Premier League season and even scored the winning goal in the Europa League Final against Manchester United. And while that goal will forever live in the club's lore and Tottenham fans should be grateful to Johnson, the reality is that Johnson was part of a team that finished 17th in the Premier League and was also the worst player on that entire team for the first half of the 2025/26 season when they ended up getting even closer to relegation.
Johnson just was not good enough for Tottenham, and yet because of his goal against Man United, there are many Spurs fans lamenting the sale in January and calling him an icon or a club legend to this day.
That is blasphemous and revisionist history at its finest. You can respect Johnson and what he did for the club without egregiously mislabeling him as a legend or pining for him to come back. Yes, he scored some goals and Tottenham do need goals, but he cost the team more goals and more points in the table in ways that are not directly registered. But because goals are so visible for people to see, fans latch onto them instead of thinking of all the goals that were missed opportunities.
Tottenham signed Mohammed Kudus as a much needed upgrade on Johnson, and if he and Wilson Odobert never got injured last season, nobody would even care about Johnson right now and would instead of be talking about how amazing the right wingers were last season. Sure, selling Johnson was part of what led to the depth issue, but Johnson as a starter was not the answer either, which is why he was sold after doing absolutely nothing in the first half of the 2025/26 season. He wasn't good enough, and the 35 million pounds Spurs got was absolutely worth it.
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