Harry Kane

[robotsonic]

Penny for the thoughts of Hugo, Sonny etc right now.

Given Hugo's previous stance on squad loyalty, and how genuinely angry he seemed, I'm sure he's taking a dim view as our club captain.

 

[Teddy Klinsmann]

Bigger issue, if Kane goes - who takes all the free kicks?

 

[George94]

Turns out that Kane is a self-centred, self-righteous coward.

I'm not going to go over what other posters have already said - he may think this is giving the middle finger to Daniel Levy, but in actual fact, he's just giving it to Tottenham Hotspur the club, his teammates, but most importantly, all the fans that have supported him over the years.

Thanks a lot, Harry. You fucking dick.

 

[dimiSpur]

I disagree when you say Harry hasn't damaged the club, but you're bang on, the architect of all this is, once again, walking through a field filled to the brim with cowpats and will reach the other side with shiny shoes. Again. It's weird. Maybe people are too focussed on slagging Kane to bother with him for now, I dunno.

How has he not damaged the Club?

He's damaging the Club's reputation. Are you telling me there's no chance someone like Romero might not look at this situation and be like, "oh, let's reconsider"? Maybe not Romero, but some target might.

At least 5 rival club fans have come up to me all smug laughing about the Kane situation. Is that not damaging?

And financially. Let's say our valuation is 160m. City offer 140m. Kane strikes and continues to. Instead of holding firm, his valuation drops so we can get this over with. Is that not damaging?

He's an utter ****. He hasn't had the balls to put in a transfer request! Why not? Why hasn't he done things officially and through the right channels? If he wants to leave, so be it. But going on strike when he hasn't exhausted all "normal" measures or before City have had a reasonable bid rejected, puts him in Sol Campbell territory IMO.

 

[isaac94]

Even Danny Rose showed up for training when he was banished to the youth team...

 

[SpartanSpur]

Nah they are coming in for Paratici's vision and project not to play with Harry Kane.

I'm really hoping Harry goes now and Nuno and Paratici can use the clean break as a reason to galvanise us as a club. We've been relying on him for too long. I worry how things will go if he ends up staying, he'll kill the atmosphere at the club. There's clearly been an issue on this side of things ever since the CL final, peaking around the exit of both Poch and Jose.

Time for the whole club to step up as a whole. Bring in 4-5 players of a good age with a lot of potential - that are excited to be here - and go again (Romero, Gil, Vlahovic, Kounde, Tomiyasu all fit this bill). Add players of that quality to the likes of Son, Lo Celso, Hojbjerg, Lloris, Ndombele, Reguilon that are already here and you have the basis of a very good and energetic young team. If Nuno can get them working hard as a team then they will cause teams problems.

We have the resources to be a regular contender for top 4 football with our without Kane, time to make it happen.

 

[GMI]

Has anyone stopped to think that maybe Kane has already been sold and both himself and Man City have been told to keep quiet while we work on a replacement?

This to me sounds much more plausable than Kane tring to force a move knowing the backlash he would get.

He looks extremely toxic at the moment and is ruining his reputation by the day so if he agreed to this approach he's a fool. You can keep quiet and still turn up to do your very well paid job.

 

[Dougal]

I can't really find anything to back up your point of view, and I still think most level headed fans agreed that we needed a new stadium to push on.

Since it's the HK thread, I'll leave it here though.

Well thanks for taking some time to look at least. The consensus at the time was to look into developing the Lane, not demolish. They said it couldn’t be done, there was a standoff. Then there was Stratford, the Tottenham riots, then suddenly nearly everyone was on the same page. Upshot of it all was Levy got what he wanted from the outset. And everyone else thought they did. You can apply the last sentence to most major happenings at Spurs over 20 years. The only thing that really blew up in his face was the Super League. But he was stubborn enough on that score to show his true colours. Face-saving ‘DNA’ apology shouldn’t mask that.

 

[dirtyh]

Bigger issue, if Kane goes - who takes all the free kicks?

a cone? same output.

 

[Archibald&Crooks]

Why is it so hard to understand for some?

Because it's all massively relevant and there's nothing to understand, which is ironic. Without one, you don't get the other. Because people all have opinions and are just as frustrated as each other and because when these things happen, no stone gets left unturned. But mainly the frustration thing

 

[jurgen]

Bah, that's not right at all.

Lets get this right. Levy has masterminded a fall of epic proportions. That's one thing. Kane is acting the ****. that's another. These are separate yet very much linked. How Kane is acting is very much down to him. Why the situation has even occurred in the first place is down to Levy. Two separate things. So if sticking the boot into Kane for how he's acting is your thing, that's fine. If rewinding and saying Levy is the architect, surely that's also fine. Doing that isn't ignoring what Kane is doing.

I honestly believe that Kane, a player who has never once rocked the boat and has, up until now shown nothing but the greatest respect and loyalty to the club is acting so against type that there's more to it than being badly advised by his yokel brother. There's something else, fuck knows what but I honestly think there's a lot more to this than we know. There usually is.

Personally I think the progress/ambition/eye off the ball thing, a combination of it all is a large part of it, so yeah, i'll have a pop at Willow about that if that's OK with you all

It seems like we've gone back in time 10 years, both in the football and results which are the worst for a decade, and in star players acting like absolute scumbags to get out of the club which hadn't happened during the years when we were competing. Only positive is that we're now starting a new cycle with a DoF again.

 

[luptic]

Ever trust a player, photographed as a kid in a Arsenal top.

 

[carpediem991]

Bigger issue, if Kane goes - who takes all the free kicks?

Sissoko

 

[Jamturk]

If this isn't a concocted soap opera then I think it is safe to say it's not going the way Citeh and Harry were hoping.

 

[Blackcanary]

Even Danny Rose showed up for training when he was banished to the youth team...

And the much-maligned Serge Aurier showed up for a game two days after his brother was murdered. Yet 'Mr Tottenham' would rather sulk at home than do his job.

 

[JonnySpurs]

This is very simple in my view. I absolutely accept that Harry might be pissed off at Levy and our chairman has certainly made some bad decisions and led us to this point.....

.....HOWEVER....

...It is entirely unacceptable for Harry to go AWOL. I don't care what his reasons are. I don't care if he feels wronged by Levy. He has a 3 year contract. He is bound to this club unless we accept a reasonable bid from another club. Until that happens, I expect him to show up for training, work hard and play games for this club like the professional that he had always been up until this point.

I've lost pretty much all respect for him. He can get out of my club as far as I'm concerned.

 

[Ron Burgundy]

Bigger issue, if Kane goes - who takes all the free kicks?

My deceased grandma - with identical success

 

[Archibald&Crooks]

It seems like we've gone back in time 10 years, both in the football and results which are the worst for a decade, and in star players acting like absolute scumbags to get out of the club which hadn't happened during the years when we were competing. Only positive is that we're now starting a new cycle with a DoF again.

We're starting 2010's five year plan all over again

 

[felmani26]

For me, it's an inevitable outcome of what will transpire with Kane becoming a City player BUT we must now look to get our business done in anticipation of this rumbling on till the end of the window.

Of course I understand the 'get as much as you can for him' rhetoric but ultimately, what will ring truer is that he's only worth as much as someone is willing to pay. If hypothetically £100m+ allows us to recruit who Paratici/Nuno want then get the deal done, move on and enter a new chapter with fresh impetus and not a great big gigantic, England Captain shaped cloud over our season.

 

[panoma]

Another England international showing Kane the meaning of class and professionalism.

Harrry's England teammates makes him look even worse every day. Imagine ruining your image like this. Such a foolish thing to do.