Bournemouth have identified Tottenham’s Brennan Johnson as a potential replacement for Antoine Semenyo, who is primed to join Manchester City in a deal worth £65m.

City are accelerating talks with Semenyo’s camp and are at the front of the queue to trigger the Ghana winger’s release clause, inserted last summer when Semenyo extended his contract at Bournemouth.

City are the only club to push ahead with a move for Semenyo, the 25-year-old who has excelled in the Premier League, but rival clubs retain an interest in the player.

His previous club Bristol City, are due 20% of any profit that Bournemouth, who signed Semenyo from the Championship side for £10m in 2023, bank from his expected sale.

Crystal Palace are also admirers of Johnson and Spurs are thought to be open to doing business on a player they signed from Nottingham Forest for £47.5m a little more than two years ago. It is unclear whether Spurs would rather sell or loan the Wales international.

Johnson has struggled for game time under Thomas Frank this season and has started just one of Tottenham’s past seven matches.

Johnson was Spurs’ leading goalscorer last season and struck the winner as they won the Europa League to earn their first major silverware since 2008. But the 24-year-old has not prospered under Frank, who succeeded Ange Postecoglou in June.

After Spurs’s 1-0 victory at Palace on Sunday, in which Johnson entered as an 85th-minute substitute, Frank maintained Johnson is an important member of his squad. “I think Brennan is very important for us,” the Dane said. “Maybe he didn’t get many minutes, but unfortunately, we can only play 11 players.

“We spoke about it before with Mo [Kudus], who has come in and put his stamp on that right-winger position. Then, [on] the left, we tried different solutions. I think Brennan is an important player for us.”