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https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/...orld-record-200m-bid-for-harry-kane-8hkl8f8lv

Tottenham Hotspur fight Real Madrid over world record £200m bid for Harry Kane

Jonathan Northcroft, Football correspondent
January 21 2018, 12:01am, The Sunday Times

Tottenham Hotspur are determined to resist a world-record bid from Real Madrid for striker Harry Kane. The Spanish club are prepared to make Kane football’s first £200m player, and exceed the £198m Paris Saint-Germain spent on Neymar, as they plot a radical and expensive summer overhaul. Daniel Levy, the Tottenham chairman, is trying to warn them off by saying he will not sell at any price.

Fundamental to Levy’s ambition is securing Kane and manager Mauricio Pochettino on extended deals to ensure the club moves into its new stadium next season with their two biggest assets committed to the future. The hope is that their commitment would persuade Toby Alderweireld, Christian Eriksen and Dele Alli to renew deals. Contract talks with Kane and Pochettino areyet to take place, with neither thought to be in any rush to commence discussions.

A difficulty for Levy is what he can offer while trying to foot the bill for a new arena adjacent to White Hart Lane. Estimated costs for it have risen from an initial £400m to at least £750m and should Spurs fail to qualify for next season’s Champions League — they currently sit fifth — it will increase financial pressures.

New contracts for Eriksen, Alli, Son Heung-Min and Alderweireld are planned, with Spurs’ hopes of keeping Alderweireld the most precarious. The Belgian is contracted until 2019, when a get-out clause would allow him to move for £25m, as long as conditions are met. He is on £50,000 a week and there is a recognition that his wages, and those of Eriksen (£70,000 a week), Alli and Son (both £60,000 a week) need to be improved in line with equivalent players at rival Premier League clubs.

That recognition extends to Kane, Spurs’ leading earner on £120,000 a week. Such a wage places him below a number of other top English players, and Ross Barkley has just signed a significantly better deal at Chelsea.

Kane is tied until 2022 and Spurs are ready to go close to £200,000 a week to persuade him to extend. However, salary alone will not be enough to retain a player whose motivations have never been driven by money. Earlier this month, Kane said Spurs need to begin winning trophies to keep him in the long term. “I’ve always said, ‘Keep progressing, keep getting better, start winning trophies.’ That’s the aim, as long as the club keep doing that I’m happy here,” he said.

In Tottenham’s favour is the fact that Florentino Perez, Real Madrid president, is also trying to prise Brazilian striker Neymar from PSG. With Karim Benzema, Gareth Bale and even Cristiano Ronaldo under threat amid a disappointing season — Real Madrid are fifth in Spain, 19 points behind Barcelona — Perez wants to rebuild his club’s forward line. Robert Lewandowski is his leading target as striker if he cannot get Kane, and Chelsea’s Eden Hazard is also coveted.

Of further concern to Tottenham is the head coach situation at the Bernabeu. Despite winning eight trophies in his first 18 months in charge, Zinedine Zidane is under threat of dismissal and Pochettino is among the candidates being considered to replace him.

Though contracted until 2021, the Argentinian is on the lowest salary of all the coaches in the Premier League’s top six and also earns less than Sam Allardyce at Everton. Pochettino may also be targeted this summer by PSG.
 

Gb160

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I've spent the last couple years living in South America and have picked up the lingo and can now read all the transfer filth in MARCA, etc.

Suffice to say it's an absolute farce. The make the English tabloids seem like the bastion of impartiality and good journalism. They think Real already have Kane and Poch sewn up for the summer and that neither would even consider staying at Spurs when the mighty Madrid deign to come calling. The arrogance is unreal.
You didn't have to move there mate, there's an English translated version available.
 

southlondonyiddo

My eyes have seen some of the glory..
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Missed another great chance for us

When’s he going to win us a game?

Only 99 league goals in 136 games now and 128 in 194 overall

Decent I suppose
 

Partizan

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A couple of seasons ago there were comparisons to Thomas Muller. I wonder if they really meant the other one :coffee:
 
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LexingtonSpurs

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I can say Joey Barton is a ****, right?

Won't bother with the link - but he is suggesting the Sanchez move to United will trigger Kane to Madrid now...
 

Ribble

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https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/...orld-record-200m-bid-for-harry-kane-8hkl8f8lv

Tottenham Hotspur fight Real Madrid over world record £200m bid for Harry Kane

Jonathan Northcroft, Football correspondent
January 21 2018, 12:01am, The Sunday Times

Tottenham Hotspur are determined to resist a world-record bid from Real Madrid for striker Harry Kane. The Spanish club are prepared to make Kane football’s first £200m player, and exceed the £198m Paris Saint-Germain spent on Neymar, as they plot a radical and expensive summer overhaul. Daniel Levy, the Tottenham chairman, is trying to warn them off by saying he will not sell at any price.

Fundamental to Levy’s ambition is securing Kane and manager Mauricio Pochettino on extended deals to ensure the club moves into its new stadium next season with their two biggest assets committed to the future. The hope is that their commitment would persuade Toby Alderweireld, Christian Eriksen and Dele Alli to renew deals. Contract talks with Kane and Pochettino areyet to take place, with neither thought to be in any rush to commence discussions.

A difficulty for Levy is what he can offer while trying to foot the bill for a new arena adjacent to White Hart Lane. Estimated costs for it have risen from an initial £400m to at least £750m and should Spurs fail to qualify for next season’s Champions League — they currently sit fifth — it will increase financial pressures.

New contracts for Eriksen, Alli, Son Heung-Min and Alderweireld are planned, with Spurs’ hopes of keeping Alderweireld the most precarious. The Belgian is contracted until 2019, when a get-out clause would allow him to move for £25m, as long as conditions are met. He is on £50,000 a week and there is a recognition that his wages, and those of Eriksen (£70,000 a week), Alli and Son (both £60,000 a week) need to be improved in line with equivalent players at rival Premier League clubs.

That recognition extends to Kane, Spurs’ leading earner on £120,000 a week. Such a wage places him below a number of other top English players, and Ross Barkley has just signed a significantly better deal at Chelsea.

Kane is tied until 2022 and Spurs are ready to go close to £200,000 a week to persuade him to extend. However, salary alone will not be enough to retain a player whose motivations have never been driven by money. Earlier this month, Kane said Spurs need to begin winning trophies to keep him in the long term. “I’ve always said, ‘Keep progressing, keep getting better, start winning trophies.’ That’s the aim, as long as the club keep doing that I’m happy here,” he said.

In Tottenham’s favour is the fact that Florentino Perez, Real Madrid president, is also trying to prise Brazilian striker Neymar from PSG. With Karim Benzema, Gareth Bale and even Cristiano Ronaldo under threat amid a disappointing season — Real Madrid are fifth in Spain, 19 points behind Barcelona — Perez wants to rebuild his club’s forward line. Robert Lewandowski is his leading target as striker if he cannot get Kane, and Chelsea’s Eden Hazard is also coveted.

Of further concern to Tottenham is the head coach situation at the Bernabeu. Despite winning eight trophies in his first 18 months in charge, Zinedine Zidane is under threat of dismissal and Pochettino is among the candidates being considered to replace him.

Though contracted until 2021, the Argentinian is on the lowest salary of all the coaches in the Premier League’s top six and also earns less than Sam Allardyce at Everton. Pochettino may also be targeted this summer by PSG.

The entire concept of this is so stupid, the only reason that Neymar and Coutinho fees are so huge are the financial doping of PSG, Real Madrid aren't going to be swinging that kind of money around.
 

Gassin's finest

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I can say Joey Barton is a ****, right?

Won't bother with the link - but he is suggesting the Sanchez move to United will trigger Kane to Madrid now...
Joey Barton certainly is a ****, and a nasty little one at that. But for oh so many other reasons than his half baked football opinions.
 

Wheeler Dealer

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Joey Barton certainly is a ****, and a nasty little one at that. But for oh so many other reasons than his half baked football opinions.
Talk Sport have given him the opportunity to spout his nasty little opinions and i suspect the braver he gets the likelihood he'll make an absolute twat of himself that will lead to the inevitable sacking...He's mental case at the very least
 

bomberH

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He’s a better pundit than he is a person. The Kane thing is a little out of context, he just said that he sees Sanchez getting that much dosh so why shouldn’t he seeing as he’s the best etc. He doesn’t usually stir and he doesn’t shy away from upsetting people like Jim White, so he’s ok by me (at the moment....).

As a person though, I don’t think I can defend him. Hopefully he’s grown up by now but I doubt it....
 

BringBack_leGin

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He’s a better pundit than he is a person. The Kane thing is a little out of context, he just said that he sees Sanchez getting that much dosh so why shouldn’t he seeing as he’s the best etc. He doesn’t usually stir and he doesn’t shy away from upsetting people like Jim White, so he’s ok by me (at the moment....).

As a person though, I don’t think I can defend him. Hopefully he’s grown up by now but I doubt it....

I dunno, he’s got the billy big bollocks attitude of ‘I played the game so I know more than you’ which is utter guff, yes sometimes he’s got a valid point but he usually presents it in such an hostile, immature way that anything of value gets lost in the bile.
 

bomberH

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I dunno, he’s got the billy big bollocks attitude of ‘I played the game so I know more than you’ which is utter guff, yes sometimes he’s got a valid point but he usually presents it in such an hostile, immature way that anything of value gets lost in the bile.

That’s just his way though I suppose. To be fair I’ve heard him discuss certain issues in a really calm and mature manner and he gets his point across well, but I’ve heard him maybe a handful of times on talksport so he could well be a **** all the other times he’s on.

I dlisked him immensely a few years back. Anyone who stubs a cigarette out in a teammate’s eye is a **** of the highest order. That youngster’s career was finished after that too. He just seems more mature nowadays now he’s not playing football but like I say, I’ve only listened to him a few times.
 

BringBack_leGin

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That’s just his way though I suppose. To be fair I’ve heard him discuss certain issues in a really calm and mature manner and he gets his point across well, but I’ve heard him maybe a handful of times on talksport so he could well be a **** all the other times he’s on.

I dlisked him immensely a few years back. Anyone who stubs a cigarette out in a teammate’s eye is a **** of the highest order. That youngster’s career was finished after that too. He just seems more mature nowadays now he’s not playing football but like I say, I’ve only listened to him a few times.
I turn off when he’s on now, mainly because during Unsworth-gate, Ian Abrahams (who plays the clown but actually is relatively on the button) had the nerve to challenge Barton on the personal comments he made and Barton’s reaction was to start mocking him and his credibility because he’s never played football. It was like listening to the chav on the playground tearing teasing a kid for doing well in exams.
 

Gb160

Well done boys. Good process
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I dunno, he’s got the billy big bollocks attitude of ‘I played the game so I know more than you’ which is utter guff, yes sometimes he’s got a valid point but he usually presents it in such an hostile, immature way that anything of value gets lost in the bile.
Why is it utter guff? Like the average fan knows more about the game/business that a recently retired pro would.

People don't like him as a pundit because they can't differentiate between what he was like when he was younger and what he's like now...if Paul Scholes or Phil Neville were saying the things he says it would be seen as a breath of fresh air, someone saying it how it is etc, but because its Barton its seen as bile and hostile.
Hes a good pundit Imo.
 

Johnny J

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Why is it utter guff? Like the average fan knows more about the game/business that a recently retired pro would.

People don't like him as a pundit because they can't differentiate between what he was like when he was younger and what he's like now...if Paul Scholes or Phil Neville were saying the things he says it would be seen as a breath of fresh air, someone saying it how it is etc, but because its Barton its seen as bile and hostile.
Hes a good pundit Imo.
I agree that Barton is a good pundit, and that fact that he was a fucking thug to that poor youngster (and his other misdemeanors) shouldn't affect the validity of everything he says. Same as Hartson, who often speaks gibberish, but has been open and contrite about his assault on Eyal Bercowitz (sp).

My personal view of Barton is that he is sometimes a little too desperate to be seen as an intellectual, which could be borne from insecurity. He speaks knowledgeably about football but, when challenged, gets quite defensive and sometimes childish. He's obviously not wrong in saying that he knows more about the game than someone who's never played it, but that is called an appeal to authority, and is actually a logical fallacy. If you need to resort to saying that you're an expert, then you've failed.
 

BringBack_leGin

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Why is it utter guff? Like the average fan knows more about the game/business that a recently retired pro would.

People don't like him as a pundit because they can't differentiate between what he was like when he was younger and what he's like now...if Paul Scholes or Phil Neville were saying the things he says it would be seen as a breath of fresh air, someone saying it how it is etc, but because its Barton its seen as bile and hostile.
Hes a good pundit Imo.
Well no, scholes and Phil Neville are boring uninsughtful and thick as two planks, shearer too. All incredible successful footballers and none particularly dislikeable.

In terms of knowing about the game, yes I think a fan (or in my prior point, journalist) who has watched thousands of games at multiple levels over several decades is just as qualified as an ex player to give an opinion, it just happens that the opinion is from a different viewpoint. Joey was talented enough and athletic enough to have a football career, that doesn’t mean his opinions are any more valid than an educated observer with a genuinely strong passion and interest, and he certainly shouldn’t be belittling someone else’s view just because they haven’t played the game.

He’s no more than a school ground bully who people mistake for being insightful just because he goes against the grain.
 
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