- Aug 13, 2005
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Negotiations with Spurs are currently at an impasse because of Forest’s valuation of Johnson at £50million.
Daniel Levy, Tottenham’s chairman, is reluctant to pay so much and, with Brentford backing off from their long-term pursuit of Johnson, that means a financial compromise will have to be found for a deal to happen.
However, Sangare’s potential availability has been known to a number of Europe’s top clubs and Forest have always realised he was an ambitious target who may have aspirations of joining a higher-ranking team.
As talks continue, however, it may all become hypothetical anyway unless a deal for Johnson happens.
Evangelos Marinakis, the Forest owner, has taken charge of the process, along with his son, Miltiadis, and is willing to sell Johnson as long as he thinks the money is right. If not, Forest are prepared to keep the Wales international and that would make a possible transfer for Sangare extremely difficult for a club that wants to remain on the right side of the financial fair-play rules.
I don’t like the sound of that last paragraph at all.