Johnson has emerged as Spurs’ subsequent switch goal of one other busy summer time which has seen them spend round £165million, but in addition recoup greater than £100m with the sale of Harry Kane to Bayern Munich.
Spurs have determined relatively than signing an outright alternative for Kane they'll unfold the targets throughout the squad, and the upcoming push to signal the 22-year-old, who can play throughout the ahead line, is a part of that technique.
Forest don't need to lose a participant who scored 10 targets, and added three assists, final season and can demand £50million for Johnson, who's homegrown.
Spurs are unwilling to pay that a lot for Johnson and can try to barter a decrease charge.
Forest earlier within the window rejected a bid value near £40m from Brentford for the Wales worldwide, who can be of curiosity to Chelsea.
Spurs are additionally eager on decreasing the scale of their squad earlier than Friday’s 11pm deadline. The likes of Davinson Sanchez, Eric Dier, Tanguy Ndombele, Djed Spence and Hugo Lloris may all depart.
Asked on earlier this week if Spurs should promote earlier than they purchase once more, supervisor Ange Postecoglou mentioned: “Not necessarily. These kind of things are pretty fluid, they can happen pretty quickly.
“At the moment you can see by doing the maths we have got too many players in terms of when we submit our final list, there will be guys here who won't be on that list if nothing changes so I am pretty sure that will change. From now until the end of the window I am sure there will be some movement.”
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