Harry Kane

leelee · Jul 23, 2021

The Sun look like absolute tools now. Plastering that story all over their front page ??

Ashley1974 · Jul 23, 2021

Yid121 said:
Probably the best price we'll ever get for Kane whilst maximising his time here.

Part of me wonders how long we'll have of peak Kane with his ankles and he's 30 next summer but then look at walker, well into his 30s and the pace is still there.

The process of accepting him leaving is beginning, I do worry about the quality of strikers out there, clearly hard to replicate Kane.

no he isn't. He is 27 as of right now and turns 28 on Weds.

Stoof · Jul 23, 2021

Pekoni said:
It was a joke. There’s nothing masterclassy in this.

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

mstill13 · Jul 23, 2021

Well this fell apart quicker than the Super League!

jpascavitz · Jul 23, 2021

Anyone have access?

luRRka · Jul 23, 2021

wiggo24 said:
To be fair all these kind of briefs came from the club during the summer we lost Bale. There would be no upside in saying anything else given that we haven't yet completed any deals.

Still not sure he'll be staying but I think the biggest indication will be our spending (or lack thereof) rather than any media reports from now until the end of the window.

But there was nothing from Madrid that summer saying they would never pay anything close to the price tag

Ashley1974 · Jul 23, 2021

Slight aside; but what has happened to ever handing in a transfer request? It hardly ever happens nowadays.

sidford · Jul 23, 2021

Ashley1974 said:
Slight aside; but what has happened to ever handing in a transfer request? It hardly ever happens nowadays.

All about money. The player loses out on loyalty payment which is usually paid from transfer fee. Players have copped that if a club wants to sign you they will and you don't need to hand in transfer request and miss out on cash.

kieranfitchett · Jul 23, 2021

AG currently live talking about Kane etc

SpartanSpur · Jul 23, 2021

'Softening stance' is simply us moving from 'not for sale at any price' to we'll consider selling for £160m.

Seems Harry is hopeful that City will actually pay up. If he were on here I think he'd be swimming in rainbow ratings...

Looks like Levy has taken a leaf from the Dortmund book and it's totally the right move. He sets a realistic but high price and then the onus is totally on the buying club and how much they want him.

Hard for Levy to be painted as the bad guy by Harry if the move falls through, City just didn't want him enough as we all know they have the funds if they really wanted to.

Trent Crimm · Jul 23, 2021

luRRka said:
But there was nothing from Madrid that summer saying they would never pay anything close to the price tag

Didn’t ZZ mention a price of 90m. Ultimately setting the price. Sure he did.

Timberwolf · Jul 23, 2021

Ashley1974 said:
Slight aside; but what has happened to ever handing in a transfer request? It hardly ever happens nowadays.

The last high profile one I remember is Zaha.

That went well.

Lifelong · Jul 23, 2021

Ashley1974 said:
Slight aside; but what has happened to ever handing in a transfer request? It hardly ever happens nowadays.

Even if he did hand in a transfer request someone still has to meet our valuation….and with three years still to run on his contract I’ll be very surprised if anyone gets even remotely close to that….

Lamelasrightfoot82 · Jul 23, 2021

Complete different topic, but if we would sell Kane, what would people think about Abraham + Ings as recplacement?

I'm curious why Abraham never gets mentioned, he seems to want to leave Chelsea and is a good striker.

sidford · Jul 23, 2021

Lamelasrightfoot82 said:
Complete different topic, but if we would sell Kane, what would people think about Abraham + Ings as recplacement?

I'm curious why Abraham never gets mentioned, he seems to want to leave Chelsea and is a good striker.

Spurs and Chelsea don't do business together so wouldn't happen

wizgell · Jul 23, 2021

Ribble said:
Whilst I'm sure he's still a fan at heart football is also his career and the club is his place of work, and that's going to affect his perception massively in comparison to ours. Tbh it's why, even though positions have come up where I'd be a really strong candidate, I'd never work for Spurs.

I can appreciate that, and whilst I don't know what your job is, I can't imagine it would result in you scoring goals in front of screaming fans, your family and friends in the stadium of your boyhood club? Aren't these the things we are led to believe players dreamed of as a kid when they try to remind us they are mere mortals?

I for one, when I was dreaming of turning pro as a kid dreamed of one day captaining Spurs, wearing my favourite number, scoring in front of the Park Lane. Sure I used to tell my Nan I'd buy her a house but Harry can buy any house he likes and still continue to break records for his boyhood club, something he has told us is an ambition of his.

I'm not here to blame Mourinho but you can't help but think that if he had never darkened our waters, Kane would be intent on leading Spurs for years to come and little brother would be happy sipping the free wine Daniel Levy serves up in hospitality lounges at the new stadium. That Amazon chat really got into their heads for me.

'Bruv, if Jose says you can reach a different level then just imagine all the posh restaurants I can eat in off your name...I mean just imagine the clubs you could play for!' And then they wind up tarting themselves out to City of all places.

panoma · Jul 23, 2021

Cinemattis said:
We need at least one striker and one or two forwards/attacking players this summer. If Kane does leave we would need one more.

Bale
Vinicius
Lamela
Kane

Not one of them will be replaced by Parrott, Scarlett or Clarke. At least noe for a year or two (in Clarke´s case most likely never).

Gil comes in for Lamela. But he´s 20 y.o. and no-one can expect him to be a concistent player in his fiorst PL-season at that age.

The problem is that there are just a handful of players that are remotely close to be on the same goal scoring level as Kane. Mbappe and Lewandovski would never join us. Ever. The former would cost borth of 200million (sold to PSG for 163M a few years ago). Lukaku wouldn´t either, and he would cost at least 80-90 million. We could of course try to convince Haaland that we are building a new, young and exciting team with Gil, Damsgaard, Skipp and him. I doubt that would be sufficient to convince him though. And if we were able to, he would still cost at least 100-120M this summer. Next summer he has the 75M clause being activated, but the whole world knows that, and there are several clubs that would give him twice per week thant we would.

Bale and Kane both counted as HG. Kane also as a club trained player. Gil, if I understand correctly - as he´s under 21, will not count against the HG-rule.

What HG-players can we realistically get and can help us develop as a team and get the goals needed?

Danny Ings, one year older than Kane, has been mentioned by many. Also a player with injury problems - both old and recent. Because of his age he won´t really bridge the gap until Scarlett and Parrott (hopefully) are at a stage when they can step and be relied upon as regular PL starters. But Ings i definitely a good player and one that has a at least a couple of top years left in him.

What other players could possibly help fill the void if Kane is leaving? A HG, proven PL-scoring and -assisting shaped hole?

Forget about the Fodens, Mounts, Rashfords and Greenwwods: they won´t leave their clubs for us - not now as we would be a step down both on sporting level and financially.

Aston Villa´s Ollie Watkins? He won´t come cheap! If Villa is even remotely interested in selling.
Chelsea´s Tammy Abraham? Reportedly Arsenal is interested and maybe in discussions.
Leeds´ Patrick Bamford? Will be 28 later this year. Leeds probably not interested in selling - would take a sizeable bid.
Leicester´s Kelechi Iheanacho? Uncertain if he counts as HG (at Man City since he was 18), and more than doubtful that Leicester would sell.
ManUtd´s Jesse Lingard? Several clubs are after him, but also reports he wants to stay and fight for a spot/new contract at MU.

My personal favourite - by far - would be Everton´s Dominic Calvert-Lewin (24). Perfect age. Ticks a lot of the boxes we would like to see in a forward/striker. They probably wouldn´t let him go for anything less than £50M. If they know we are replacing him with Kane-money from City, even more.

DCL and Ings would be a very interesting pair. Proven goal scorers. And would most likely cost us anywhere between 70-90M in total (Ings costing 20-30 and DCL covering the remainding).

Agree, DCL could be a shrewd signing.

Imagine the Everton transfer forums if they follow up buying Andros and Gray with selling DCL. Ouch.

Lifelong · Jul 23, 2021

Lamelasrightfoot82 said:
Complete different topic, but if we would sell Kane, what would people think about Abraham + Ings as recplacement?

I'm curious why Abraham never gets mentioned, he seems to want to leave Chelsea and is a good striker.

For me Ings is far too injury prone and abrahams is bang average so a big no from me….

Ashley1974 · Jul 23, 2021

sidford said:
All about money. The player loses out on loyalty payment which is usually paid from transfer fee. Players have copped that if a club wants to sign you they will and you don't need to hand in transfer request and miss out on cash.

Timberwolf said:
The last high profile one I remember is Zaha.

That went well.

Lifelong said:
Even if he did hand in a transfer request someone still has to meet our valuation….and with three years still to run on his contract I’ll be very surprised if anyone gets even remotely close to that….

thank you.

So you would think that if Kane was serious on leaving, he would hand one in, or least intimate to Levy that he will hand one in (and waive whatever fee he would have got), because if it's all about winning trophies, missing out on a few £m would be irrelevant.

SpartanSpur · Jul 23, 2021

Lamelasrightfoot82 said:
Complete different topic, but if we would sell Kane, what would people think about Abraham + Ings as recplacement?

I'm curious why Abraham never gets mentioned, he seems to want to leave Chelsea and is a good striker.

I watch a lot of Chelsea and Abraham just seems to be found wanting at the very top level and especially in big games. As much as they like him as an academy graduate the Chelsea fans I know admit this. Maybe it's a mental block that he can overcome but it looks to me like he won't ever reach those heights. Calvert-Lewin for me and arguably even Watkins and Toney are better HG prospects.

Abraham's loan spell at Swansea also left a lot to be desired and will be a concern as he moves down the table.

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