Harry Kane

I much prefer the idea of rebuilding the team then keeping an unhappy / disrespectful player at the club.

I hope we can bring in quality players who want to be here & get rid of those who don’t / aren’t good enough.

Gingernut said:

Agreed but obviously hugely naïve to believe his brother's bluff and bluster

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Or just naive to think he's bigger than the club and can take on Levy and win.

Spurslove said:

I agree with you 100% but the sad and tragic fact of the matter is, the City fans don't give a shit about their club being financially doped, and the more the fans of the other clubs moan and whinge about it, the more they love it. It bloody sucks, I know, but that's the truth.

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Agree with you. They put it down to jealousy... and I probably am jealous of their ability to buy almost anyone they want.
But any jealousy I may feel is more than outweighed by relief, and even a little pride, that we are not owned by a corrupt and venal bunch of human rights abusing, anti-gay, Arab slave traders who treat anyone else (including their own wives and daughters) as inferior to them.
Jealous of that?
Not me.

FloridaSpur said:

I will finish this by leaving this here, and bid you good day.

From The Guardian Tuesday 11 Aug 2020

"Walker-Peters’s move is a separate transaction as Southampton make his loan into a permanent transfer. The right-back, who helped England to glory in the 2017 Under-20s World Cup, spent the second half of last season on loan with Ralph Hasenhüttl’s team and impressed, prompting the club to pay a reported £12m for his services.

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A single journalist characterizing the deal that way doesn’t make it so. Southampton, recall, had made fools of themselves throughout the negotiations and were attempting to save face. Dan Sheldon, a local Southampton reporter, characterized it as a part exchange early on in negotiations. As the deal dragged on, it was only ever a question of how much money on top of KWP we'd have to pay in order to get it across the line, and it's hardly a coincidence that the two were announced on consecutive days. I'm sure that as a technical matter it involved two sales contracts rather than one, but anyone who paid attention to the negotiations as they played out knows without any scintilla of doubt that the two were connected to one another.

As this all relates to Kane, it's at least within the realm of possibility that an eventual agreement could be reached involving a player or two coming our way. We're actively in the market for another CB and Laporte is stuck on City's bench. If we sell Winks and Sissoko we've had ITK that we'll be in the market for a CM and Bernardo wants out of the club. It's certainly at least worth discussing.

wrd said:

Can somebody catch me up to speed on the Charlie Kane talk, has there been some new info

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No, just various pundits on talksport saying

"I don't know who Kane's agent is, but he's not very good is he?"

PLTuck said:

Or just naive to think he's bigger than the club and can take on Levy and win.

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my opinion is that HK doesn't think that but maybe his brother does - considering he is a gooner after all.

13VanDerBale13 said:

I much prefer the idea of rebuilding the team then keeping an unhappy / disrespectful player at the club.

I hope we can bring in quality players who want to be here & get rid of those who don’t / aren’t good enough.

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It's become Spur's self interest to stand their ground though now, hasn't it? If an acceptable bid came in it would be different, but the club simply cannot accept a low bid like £100m.

13VanDerBale13 said:

I much prefer the idea of rebuilding the team then keeping an unhappy / disrespectful player at the club.

I hope we can bring in quality players who want to be here & get rid of those who don’t / aren’t good enough.

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Agreed and I would hope Nuno and Paratici would have a big say on this. I still think it has to be around the £150m mark though.

What's that game where the players have to put their hand in a black box and guess what they are holding. That one and the other silly games. I want to see Harry being the main guy involved in every single one of them. Stop using the second tier guys and Sonny for these.

Scott Spur said:

I really do hope that we get a round of 'He's one of our own' for Son tonight.

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The song should just go straight to Skipp now.

jazz15c said:

Personally I hope Lloris meets him with swinging haymakers as soon as he enters the building, but probably unlikely. Sadly.

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Not sure about that, but knocking back a bottle of red at lunch and reversing over him in the carpark is a maybe.

Dakes said:

What's that game where the players have to put their hand in a black box and guess what they are holding. That one and the other silly games. I want to see Harry being the main guy involved in every single one of them. Stop using the second tier guys and Sonny for these.

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If anything I'd prefer him to play that game with the big tree stump from Flash Gordon.

Dakes said:

What's that game where the players have to put their hand in a black box and guess what they are holding. That one and the other silly games. I want to see Harry being the main guy involved in every single one of them. Stop using the second tier guys and Sonny for these.

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Over the last few weeks I've started to get the impression that he feels all that is beneath him.

He really needs to go on a massive charm offensive however this plays out, and he's not exactly known for being able to charm the birds from the trees is he?

PLTuck said:

Over the last few weeks I've started to get the impression that he feels all that is beneath him.

He really needs to go on a massive charm offensive however this plays out, and he's not exactly known for being able to charm the birds from the trees is he?

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I've hardly seen him involved in those, if he ever was, which is why I want to see him involved in every single one of them. I got exactly the same impression as you, that things like that were beneath him.

Ravenyonaz said:

Neither of them are real Spurs legends. They are more Spurs heroes. Bill Nick is a legend, Blanchflower is a legend, Ardiles is a legend, even Villa due to his goal against MC. Hoddle is a Spurs Legend, so are Pat Jennings, Martin Chivers, Jimmy Greaves, Cliff Jones, etc. Legends are those players who live on in the legend of a club. It's often a fine line. Is Klinsmann a legend, is Modric a legend, is Garth Crooks a legend, or are they our former heroes?

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I’d add Mackay and Mabbutt to that list of legends

Trix said:

The song should just go straight to Skipp now.

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First game when Kane and Skipp are playing...

Crowd: "One of our own....."
Kane: "Oh thank fuck for that, they've forgiven me"
Crowd: "Oliver Skipp..."
Kane: ?

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Neither of them are real Spurs legends. They are more Spurs heroes. Bill Nick is a legend, Blanchflower is a legend, Ardiles is a legend, even Villa due to his goal against MC. Hoddle is a Spurs Legend, so are Pat Jennings, Martin Chivers, Jimmy Greaves, Cliff Jones, etc. Legends are those players who live on in the legend of a club. It's often a fine line. Is Klinsmann a legend, is Modric a legend, is Garth Crooks a legend, or are they our former heroes?

ardiles said:

I’d add Mackay and Mabbutt to that list of legends

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TBH Shocked not to see Perryman mentioned

PLTuck said:

Over the last few weeks I've started to get the impression that he feels all that is beneath him.

He really needs to go on a massive charm offensive however this plays out, and he's not exactly known for being able to charm the birds from the trees is he?

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What actually matters is he plays his heart out in a Spurs shirt, goals and assists are what will charm the panties off Spurs fans. He's better off letting football do the talking.

Will be an odd feeling if he’s still here after the deadline, on one hand we’ve kept the best striker in the world but on the other I don’t really want him here

brasil_spur said:

This is the list from Transfermarkt:

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We sold Bale 8 years ago for almost £100m. The fact that with the massive inflation we've seen since that there's even the consideration that Kane would be worth only £100m is unbelievable.

The fact Kane apparently thinks he can get a move for only £100m is also unbelievable.

£160m is the minimum price IMO and even then that was before all the antics that Kane is up to right now. Frankly i'd be upping his price by £5m for every day he doesn't come to training.

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An interesting factor in this list, is that only two of those transfers were to clubs in the same domestic league: Mbappe (monaco to PSG) and Griezmann (Atletico to Barcelona).

Hazard had one year left on his contract. IIRC Bale had several years left on his contract. The others I do not know.

Harry Kane is the PL´s most prolific goalscorer by far - if there is one single player in the world everyone knows will score goals in an abundance in the PL (for almost any team), it is Kane. Signing any other of the super strikers of football (Mbappe, Haaland, Lukaku, Lewandowski) will have some level of uncertainty; will they be able to produce the goods on the same level in the PL as where they are now? For a top club it´s most likely they would, but Lukaku wasn´t an undisputable, raving success at Man Utd.

He won his third golden boot AND was top assister for a team that ended in 7th place last season. Seventh!

Add to that all the other factors mentioned a gazillion times in this thread (HG, England captain, he´s entering/in the beginning of his prime years, etc.).

Kane is apparently a true professional in the mold of CR7 and Giggs; his first priority is taking care of his body in almost ascetic way through training, nutrition, little/no alcohol, rest, etc., etc. Meaning that there is no reason (bar injuries) that he shouldn´t be able to play at the top level for at least 5-6-7 more years. And he has said som himself in interviews.

What are our chances of getting CL in the upcoming season without Harry Kane? The bonuses from just qualifying, the bonuses from the PL that a top 4 spot gives: that alone is worth tens of millions of pounds. A new striker (or two) will come with no guarantee of any success. Danny Ings + Dusan Vlahovic would probably cost us a combined fee of around £60-80M. Not a huge windfall of selling and replacing a generational player - compared to keeping him and (maybe) get CL.

And maybe the most important factor of all in my eyes: his worth to THFC. Where would we be without him? What would it cost to replace his numbers, his presence in the squad? What would it cost to replace him as the club´s poster boy and superstar? For Tottenham it has a value (financial and staus wise) to be the club of one of the very best players in the world. Because of his history, growing up in the club, it is almost impossible to put a price on all this. Other than "enormous".

As the Sky reporter said in the one clip that has been posted here several times: it´s a slap in the face - both to Spurs and to Kane himself - to bid £100M for him.

If the latest reports on transfer bids are true and that Grealish is worth £100M and Lukaku (who is two months older than Kane) is worth £110-130M, then anything below the £150M mark is simply ridiculous. Kane´s stats and goal guarantee + his status and importance for us as a club warrants a price tag of closer to £200M than £100M.