Crystal Palace are set to complete the signing of Brennan Johnson from Tottenham Hotspur, with the forward hopeful of joining in time to be available for the visit to Newcastle United on Sunday.

Johnson is undergoing a medical at Palace and poised to sign a four-and-a-half year deal. If the move is completed before noon on Friday, he can be named in Oliver Glasner’s squad at St. James’ Park.

The Athletic reported in December that Palace had reached an agreement with Tottenham over a deal to sign the Wales international. A fee approaching £35million (€40m; $47m) would represent a club-record transfer for Palace and the fourth-highest sale in Spurs’ history.

Johnson finished as Tottenham’s top scorer last season with 18 goals in all competitions but has not featured as frequently under new head coach Thomas Frank.

Of the 24-year-old’s 22 appearances in 2025-26, only six have been starts in the Premier League.

The Athletic reported earlier in the window that Johnson was Palace’s main target for the January window as manager Glasner looks for reinforcements to compete both domestically and in Europe.

Following Eberechi Eze’s summer move to Arsenal in August, Ismaila Sarr and Yeremy Pino have been utilised the most as the two No 10s in Glasner’s preferred system.

Johnson would provide competition for both with Daichi Kamada, Justin Devenny and Eddie Nketiah offering other options.

Johnson came through the academy at Nottingham Forest, helping the side achieve promotion to the Premier League in the 2021-22 season. He signed for Spurs in September 2023 for £47.5m.

He has gone on to make more than 100 appearances for Tottenham, scoring 27 goals, including the winner in the Europa League final in May that secured the club’s first trophy in 17 years.

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‘A Spurs legend but move makes sense’

Analysis by Jack Pitt-Brooke

Brennan Johnson will always be a Tottenham Hotspur legend. But that does not mean Spurs were wrong to let him go to Crystal Palace in the January window.

It was Johnson who won Spurs the Europa League final last May, their greatest moment of the modern era. He will forever be a hero for that one touch alone.

But Spurs have struggled to sell at the right time in recent years, often hanging on to players for too long, seeing their market value decrease. They have not been anywhere near ruthless enough at moving players on and making money which they can re-invest. That has been a large part of the reason why the squad has deteriorated in the last few years.

Johnson is not in Thomas Frank’s first team, neither on the right nor on the left. While he has strengths, the case for cashing in now is clear. It is precisely the sort of move that Tottenham have traditionally not done. Which is why it makes sense.