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Brennan Johnson is benefiting from the \u201cextreme\u201d demands placed on him by Tottenham boss Ange Postecoglou and proving himself to be an elite player, says his Wales manager Rob Page.<\/p>\n

Johnson has taken time to settle at Spurs following his \u00a347.5million move from Nottingham Forest during the closing minutes of the summer transfer window.<\/p>\n

The 22-year-old forward has yet to score and suffered a hamstring injury on his first Premier League start for Tottenham, ruling him out of action for a month.<\/p>\n

Johnson\u2019s second Premier League start against Chelsea on Monday also ended prematurely when he was sacrificed after Spurs were reduced to 10 men by defender Cristian Romero\u2019s red card.<\/p>\n

But Johnson has shown signs of promise in North London with a superb assist for Son Heung-min\u2019s winner at Crystal Palace, while he also set up the Spurs skipper for a disallowed effort against Chelsea before his first-half withdrawal.<\/p>\n

\u201cBrennan\u2019s at a big, big club now pushing for top four so the demands on him will be extreme,\u201d said Page, who welcomed Johnson back into his squad after injury for this month\u2019s decisive Euro 2024 qualifiers against Armenia and Turkey.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe squad of players he\u2019s got around him now will be slightly different, but I\u2019m not concerned at all. Even by training with the players he\u2019s with will bring him to another level.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve all seen the potential. When I worked with him at the Under-21s and the younger age groups, I could see he was going to go (to the top).<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s taken him a little bit of time to get up to that standard, but he\u2019s shown glimpses of it.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat is important now is that he sustains that level by playing with those players and the demands of the manager there. He will absolutely do that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Johnson has only scored twice in 22 Wales appearances \u2013 against Belgium and the Netherlands in the Nations League \u2013 and that is a disappointing return for a player considered to be Gareth Bale\u2019s natural successor in the Dragons\u2019 forward line.<\/p>\n

Page suggested that is down to the way Wales have previously been structured as a team but he insists, as evidenced by last month\u2019s stunning 2-1 win over World Cup semi-finalists Croatia, they are evolving as an attacking unit.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cThe majority of the games in the World Cup and Nations League A we were the underdogs and not going to have a lot of the ball.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur defensive structure has to be spot on if not you\u2019re going to get found out, but as we evolve I\u2019m asking more from the forward players and we saw that against Croatia.<\/p>\n

\u201cI brought Jack Lester in (as assistant coach), who\u2019s one of the best forwards I played with and coaches I\u2019ve seen. It was an area I wanted to improve and I\u2019ve seen a difference already.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wales will avoid the play-offs in March and qualify automatically for next summer\u2019s Euro 2024 finals in Germany if they beat Armenia in Yerevan on November 18 and Turkey in Cardiff three days later.<\/p>\n

Page said: \u201cI like Brennan as a nine purely because of his pace. He did that for us in Latvia (when Wales won 2-0 in September) and there\u2019s not a defender out there who\u2019s going to want to play against him and DJ (Daniel James) because pace frightens defenders.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I\u2019m not going to pigeonhole him as a nine. He can play in any one of the front three positions easily.\u201d<\/p>\n

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