Harry Kane

The Opinionated Lurker said:

I think end of the window we’ll suddenly hear that City made an offer we can’t refuse and then that’s when it’ll all go through. The club will obviously say not for sale but I don’t think Charlie Kane got that £160m fee from thin air.

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I think so too. I know we’re hearing that he’s unlikely to go this window but we’re suddenly spending big money when we’ve been told previously there wasn’t much about

Guntz said:

Toby £5m
Foyth £13m

Gollini - Loan
Gil - £21m+ Lamela

How are we at a profit?

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Toby went for close to £12m I thought

Matthew said:

Does make me wonder if all this spending is the Kane money? I know we’ve had ITK saying it’s not, but there’s too much smoke IMO.

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What spending?! ??‍

Happyhammy said:

Toby went for close to £12m I thought

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Matthew said:

Does make me wonder if all this spending is the Kane money? I know we’ve had ITK saying it’s not, but there’s too much smoke IMO.

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What spending? So far we’re up about £5m.

spursfan77 said:

Exactly. If he goes, fuck him. He’ll be just another player who I hope has a shit career because they don’t play for us. I only care about THFC. I couldn’t care less about players once they are gone.

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Didn’t really begrudge Modric and Bale their moves to Madrid. They never claimed to be one of us, they didn’t play up their love of the club, and they moved for massive fees to probably the biggest club in the world. Most importantly they moved abroad. I wished them well, and was pleased when Bale scored winners in finals for them etc, or Modric won the Ballon Dor.

If Kane forces a move to an English club, with all these snidey leaks in the press, then he’s dead to me, like you say, fuck him. Trying to force a move to that soulless husk of a football club, a vehicle for sports washing a blood soaked little kingdom in the desert, not sure I have that much respect for him any more. If he stays, great, we need the best players, but he’s not one of our own any more.

spids said:

What spending? So far we’re up about £5m.

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With spending, remember that Spurs usually makes payments in installments. So if we were to say, bring in 60 mil in outgoings and pay 150 mil in incomings, its not a net spend of 90. Its probably a net spend of 18 for this year. Big difference... (And that's only assuming that we accept installments on the outgoing, which we probably don't as much when we're talking about say 5 mil for Toby, etc.)

SpartanSpur said:

I fully understand why he would leave, especially after all of the near misses and our recent decline. He is in a unique position in that he is on the cusp of being an absolute legend of a big club. Hundreds of players have PL winners medals, not many have that level of status. He's clearly made his choice it seems unfortunately for us.

Even if he stays now his legacy has been tarnished somewhat.

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But you're a Tottenham fan so you place a much higher valuation on the importance of legend status at Spurs than a professional footballer does.

Most employees in most professions want tangible rewards for their work. Footballers aren't any different.

The Lion said:

With spending, remember that Spurs usually makes payments in installments. So if we were to say, bring in 60 mil in outgoings and pay 150 mil in incomings, its not a net spend of 90. Its probably a net spend of 18 for this year. Big difference... (And that's only assuming that we accept installments on the outgoing, which we probably don't as much when we're talking about say 5 mil for Toby, etc.)

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Going by that logic you would have to factor in instalments on deals made previous years as well, ie Tanguy, Lo Celso, Reggie etc.

I’m glad his been told by the big boss shut up and stay why did u sign a contract u mug

philll said:

I'm still more annoyed than I should be that he didn't acknowledge the club's birthday wishes while seemingly including literally everybody else's in his IG stories. If his superagent controls his social media then it's at best childish (and expected, based on his general levels of competence) but if it was up to Harry himself then It's a really classless thing to do.

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This has kinda pissed me off aswell. Its not just the club(Levy) that pays his wages hes fucking off, its us fans to.

buttons said:

Harry has said over and over (and I appreciate we have to take his words with a pinch of salt) that if the club continues to show / match his ambitions then he’ll stay. We’ve been piss poor, champions league run aside, since February 2019 and I think that stems back to a lack of ambition being shown when we were at the top and challenging. That was the time to capitalise, and we f**ked it.

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The no signings wasn't the club though! I am 110% anti Levy can't stand the guy but I don't let it blind me. Pochettino refused to sign any player other than De Ligt and De Jong that summer Tielemans, Maddison and Perreira were options he turned down. Levy is shit on the football side yes but you can't say hiring Mourinho throwing millions on Lo Celso Bergwijn Gedson Vinicuis Bale Doherty Reguilon wasn't showing ambition! I failed massively yes but it was in an ambitious attempt. It failed this summer again the moves we are making fine this season is gonna be a long 1 but we're clearly showing ambition to get back up where we were which is why Son signed a new contract! We've always shown ambition and I can't argue against that we just had 3 very stubborn men in this club all 3 have either gone or stepped aside.

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I'm still more annoyed than I should be that he didn't acknowledge the club's birthday wishes while seemingly including literally everybody else's in his IG stories. If his superagent controls his social media then it's at best childish (and expected, based on his general levels of competence) but if it was up to Harry himself then It's a really classless thing to do.

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You just know that Charlie said to him "Hey Harry, don't acknowledge the club's birthday wishes in any way. That'll show them! Haha!"

I don't want him to leave, but how is this sounding as a potentially realistic replacement window:

Romero
Vlahovic
Ings
Tomiyasu
Bryan Gil
Bernardo (included in Kane deal, Mendes client)
New CB or RB
Gollini

If most of those signings came good we could still be stronger outfit overall, plus less reliant on Kane and more focused on the team as a whole. Might not be the end of the world if it happens.

Vlahovic is the big gamble which is worrying as Kane is a sure thing. Another on the market is Lautaro Martinez however he's not a traditional striker in the Kane mould.

Obviously I'd rather Kane stayed and we brought in Romero, Tomiyasu and a new CB/RB.

L.S.U.Yiddo said:

But you're a Tottenham fan so you place a much higher valuation on the importance of legend status at Spurs than a professional footballer does.

Most employees in most professions want tangible rewards for their work. Footballers aren't any different.

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I'd be pretty happy to have a statue outside the stadium of one of the biggest football clubs in England to be honest. Alan Shearer - probably one of the few to really know about these things - has said it's an extremely difficult decision to make as both routes have their merits.

Like I have said in this thread many times I understand him wanting to take the easy route at City, I'm sure he'd be happy enough with his decisions too.

Think it's clear enough from what we are hearing, they want him and he wants to go. City will be relying on Kane to try and push something through in an effort to get Levy to the negotiating table to try and get the price down. I think that's going to be very difficult to do but you never know. Will probably drag on but at some stage imagine City will start looking at other options. Talk of Inter being open to selling Lautaro Martinez with him down to the last two years of his contract, so maybe that is someone they'll look to for next season before looking at Kane, Haaland next summer.

makeveli said:

I’m glad his been told by the big boss shut up and stay why did u sign a contract u mug

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He could win 10 titles at City and all of them would amount to less than one at Spurs.

Matthew said:

Does make me wonder if all this spending is the Kane money? I know we’ve had ITK saying it’s not, but there’s too much smoke IMO.

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At this moement in time i can't see how it is us spending the Kane money. I do believe that Fabio Paratici is doing exactly what has been asked of him. He has been given a budget and has been told to supplement it with player sales and to be creative, which he has been with the Bryan Gil situation.

We have spent £22 1/2m on Bryan Gil + Lamela going the other way in effect reducing the wage bill from around £80k to around £43k a week
Sold Foyth for £13m
Sold Toby for £11.4m Edit apparently he went for £4.5m
Gollini in on loan with option to extend the loan by a year or purchase
Looking to buy Romero for around £42m with add ons and looking at selling Sanchez for around £20m as the cash (around £30m) + Sanchez bid for Kunde never happend due to player wanting a bigger club that is in the CL, which now appears to be Chelsea. There seems to be a few teams interested in Sanchez so should be able to sell. If we sign Romero we will step up the attempt to sell Sanchez andfree up his £65k a week wages to no doubt go towards Romero's wages and could even go to Sevilla if Kunde does go to Chelsea.

Looking to buy Takehiro Tomiyasu for around £20m

Looking at players with one year left on their contracts for potential bargans (but not crap)

All the ITK seems to be pointing to us shifting more players with Winks being valued at around £20m and that we are not broke and there seems to be some finacial news to come (alluding to Stadium naming rights, training gear sponsorship, hopefully a stadium back in full use with boxing, NFL football rugby concerts etc).

If all of a sudden we sign a striker for £70m+ then i would start to get my suspicions up, but at this moment in time i still think we are utilising Patrici's talents to try and take advantage of the current market situation.

Am i saying that Kane won't be sold? No,but if he is City will have to pay big to get him and are they prepared to spend close to £300m on 2 players? If Grealish is going for the reported fee of £100m then Kane will only go if City come in close to the £200m Levy has set.

Just my 2 pence worth which i know is not much i know.

I think Harry wanted out the moment we sacked Mourinho days before a cup final. Whatever the reason, I don't think that sat well with Kane at all. He clearly backed Jose and felt he was going to pivotal in our chances of finally winning silverware.

guernman said:

I think Harry wanted out the moment we sacked Mourinho days before a cup final. Whatever the reason, I don't think that sat well with Kane at all. He clearly backed Jose and felt he was going to pivotal in our chances of finally winning silverware.

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Nah, Jose had lost Kane at that stage.