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 the 25-year-old, but rival clubs retain an interest in the player.

Bristol City, are due 20% of any profit 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 one of Tottenham’s past seven matches.

He was Spurs’ leading goalscorer last season and struck the winner in the Europa League final 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, when Johnson came on as an 85th-minute substitute, Frank maintained Johnson is an important member of his squad. “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.