Picture of Ronaldo Nazario encouraging the Tottenham dressing room after a case of abuse on social networks | Relief

It has been less than a month, but that has changed. From mid-September, when the defeat in the London derby against Arsenal the hate mongering against Brennan Johnson: fans filled their social networks with insults and abusive messages, causing the footballer will close the official Instagram profile. Drag to total black. To disappear. Don’t read. Criticism of his performance made him want to step down. “I hate that we have normalized this“, announced his coach, Ange Postecoglou, to talk about what happened.

Behind closed doors, however, the support has been at its highest. His few goals – five since his arrival a year earlier – were not even a problem for the coach, who he continued to rely on Johnson as a starter. And everything changed.

“We are talking about a young boy who Maybe he lacks confidence right now, things just haven’t worked out for him.. But he comes here every day, he works like the best, he asks for ideas for improvement, he does everything right. He is very hurt. It’s not like he’s going out and doesn’t care or is late. What is your fault? His crime is that he does not perform at the level that people expect from himPostecoglou added.

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What has happened since then is a scoring streak not seen at Tottenham since Harry Kane in 2018. Six games, six goals scored: Coventry, Brentford, Qarabag, Manchester United, Ferencvaros and Brighton. All in a row. In fact, after he scored against Coventry in the Cup (in the 88th minute and completed the comeback), he did not seem happy and did not celebrate the final whistle.

Such has been disturbance by Brennan Johnson that his partner James Maddison took advantage of him to a story in your account after one of the games. There you see Johnson’s face on an original photo of Brazil’s Ronaldo Nazario christened “Brenaldo”. So he had to explain himself to the media: “I thought it was funny and we put him in the team group. I don’t think I will tell him to get off social media. – again,” he said.

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