No surprise, given how particular it was for him and his membership. The aim was Johnson’s twentieth of the season for membership and nation – his finest return in a single marketing campaign – and gave Spurs their first piece of silverware since 2008.

“I am so glad proper now,” he stated. “This season has not been good in any respect, not considered one of us gamers care about that now.

“This workforce has not received a trophy for 17 years, it means a lot.

“All of the followers get battered, we get battered for not profitable a trophy. We needed to get the primary one. I am so glad. Ever since I got here right here it has been ‘Tottenham, good workforce however cannot get it finished’, however we bought it finished.”

Discovering himself seventeenth within the Premier League was not what Johnson would have anticipated when he joined Spurs from Nottingham Forest for a charge in extra of £45m in the summertime of 2023.

Whereas his outdated membership have been one of many tales of the season, difficult for a Champions League spot, his present employers and boss Ange Postecoglou have been ridiculed for his or her dismal home marketing campaign.

However Johnson, who additionally scored in Spurs’ Europa League semi-final win over Bodo/Glimt, stated he and his teammates owed Postecoglou a debt of gratitude for “trusting in us” over the course of a profitable European marketing campaign that defied their struggles within the Premier League.

“He has finished his job,” stated Johnson. “He stated he wins within the second yr and he has, if there’s ever a time for a mic drop, it is now [when he speaks to the media].

“I can not thank the supervisor sufficient for a way a lot belief he has in us, and he has a extremely great way of getting us up for it.”

Johnson added: “Tottenham Hotspur being seventeenth within the Premier League shouldn’t be ok. We had an unbelievable Europa League run. The followers have been so good, house and away, and so they had the sting over the United followers. They had been all right here an hour earlier than the sport, they bought us by the sport.”