Johnson Deal Completed
Friday, 12th Jan 2001 10:36

Nottingham Forest say the deal for David Johnson is now complete and that the player has is likely to go straight into the squad for Sunday's game with Crystal Palace.

The striker told the official Forest website: "I'm delighted to be here and hopefully I can score a few goals to help Forest win promotion. I could have stayed at Ipswich and possibly picked up a Worthington Cup winners' medal … but I desperately want first team football which is something I haven't had so far this season."

The former King of Portman Road added: "As soon as I learnt of Forest's interest in me, I set my heart on a move to The City Ground. It's a great move for me and I can't wait to get started. Hopefully I'll be involved against Crystal Palace on Sunday."

TWTD still has Town Topics on a number of Johnson related issues at http://www.twtd.co.uk/towntopics including who the player lined up is. We are also running a frontpage poll on whether we should have let him go and a Thank You Johnno mail page: http://www.twtd.co.uk/johnson

class="storytext">John McGreal is set to be back in the squad for Sunday's live Sky game with Leicester City. The centre-half has missed the last two games with a knee injury, but has now recovered sufficiently.

While he has been out he has been replaced by Titus Bramble. The young defender has been critical of some of his own performances, but given that he is still only 19 he can be forgiven the odd error or two. The Town number-19 said: "In recent games I felt I did well against Tottenham but I was only average at Morecambe and Birmingham."

Mark Venus is Town's main worry for Sunday. The man Ron Atkinson said was his tip for Player of the Year picked up a thingh problem when colliding with Dele Abedola during the match on Tuesday night. George Burley said: "Mark did well to finish the match on Tuesday. The injury was painful afterwards but is improving."

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