As the current campaign comes to dusk, Hugo Lloris’s future at Tottenham Hotspur looks blurrier than ever before as the North London side prepares list of potential goalkeeping targets to replace the skipper.
Likes of Gianluigi Donnarumma, Dean Henderson, Nick Pope, Ugurcan Cakir, and many more lined with a summer move to N17. One of the names rumoured with a Spurs switch is West Bromwich Albion goalkeeper Sam Johnstone, after his impressive antics between the sticks for the Baggies despite them sticking to the bottom of the Premiership for the majority of the ongoing campaign.
With West Brom’s survival hopes looking slim, multiple reports across English press states that Sam Johnstone is all but likely to depart. And according to reports by Evening Standard, the Baggies have set a £10million price tag on Sam amid interests from multiple Premier League clubs.
The Athletic, last month, revealed that Tottenham had sent ‘feelers’ out over bringing Johnstone to North London, as well as his England teammates in Dean Henderson and Nick Pope.
Despite West Brom’s miserable return to the Premier League, Sam Johnstone, according to FBREF data notes made the most saves in the English top tier (123) despite facing the most shots on target per game (5.74), as the Former Manchester United keeper boasts save percentage of 69.1%, the twelfth-highest in the Premier League.
Johnstone is contracted with Sam Allardyce’s side till the summer of 2022 and is expected to be bagging around £32.5k-per-week. With only about three Tottenham first-team players earning lower than what Johnstone is earning as of now, it does look like a safe bet financially. Considering he is coming cheaper than about all of Tottenham’s targets and will not ask for any astonishing weekly wages – it’d be a safe & smart bet.
For Hugo, he is linked with a move to his homeland with Mauricio Pochettino and Paris Saint-Germain. The Evening Standard brought out a quote from Hugo Lloris about his relationship with Poch: “My future is linked to Mauricio’s, that is a certainty. He matters a lot to me and our relationship goes beyond football – it is a partnership.”
