Lo Amo Speroni
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Man City may well go all in for him. The crux comes, like it did for Gerrard can he bring himself to play against Spurs.
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spursfan77
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Do they really need him though?
They don’t need to spend £150 million on one player to make their team better. It’s already the best in the country. Europe is where their problems lie and that’s a mentality thing. I still think they have a chance with Messi and even though he’d probably cost a fortune in wages, while Guardiola is there and the dream of reuniting them is possible I still think it’s the likeliest ploy with Haaland going there the following season when he’s a cheaper fee for them.
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Kane is a certified goal scorer he will make any team better.
Mornstar
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What a bizarre comparison. Gerrard had just won the European Cup and his club were regularly winning trophies. We have won 2 (yes 2) league cups in the last 3 decades!
Rosco1984
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How many minutes of the Knockout stages did Kane play in the run to the final before he then came in and played the final and did the grand sum of fuck all? I love the bloke I really do but I have always hated the move to win narrative from any clubs point of view. If you are so great then why do you need trophies handed to you on a platter at one of a few clubs guaranteed to win them. The glory is actually showing up to a final with Spurs or a top of the table clash and doing the business against the odds. Jaime Vardys title at Leicester is far more impressive than anything Mahrez wins at city.
bubble07
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Yes.
Lo Amo Speroni
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Im not sure you understood my post. Will he be prepared to play against us is what im saying.
fishhhandaricecake
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Yea completely get your point mate although he wasn't fit in the CL final for example, but yea get the point.
fishhhandaricecake
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Don't think it was about Kane specifically tbh and he went round Poch's house the next day and was very close to him.
He’s a professional player after all so yes I think he is and you can bet your ass he will want that goal when he does play against us (probably won’t celebrate)
spursfan77
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Of course. But do they need him when they can get Haaland in a year's time for half the cost and have a player under contract for potentially the next decade?
SecretLemonadeDrinker
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Not me.
We have one season to convince him to stay. All the more imperative that we get the right manager in. Odds are that even a good first season might not be enough but Harry leaving is not inevitable yet.
Shadydan
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There would probably be more of a market for Haaland than Kane tbh.
duffman22
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To be honest, as one of the senior figures at the club, I’d actually be concerned if he wasn’t raising questions with the club about what our direction is and where we are headed. Because it’s exactly what we are all thinking too.
Clearly there’s still a lot to be decided and it’s by no means clear cut what is going to happen. Lloris himself said that in 2014 that the appointment of Poch convinced him to stay and stick with Spurs and he’s still here 7 years later. Obviously you can’t compare directly but the same could happen with Kane depending on what happens this year.
It would be a massive massive blow if he leaves, and would hurt a lot more than we’ve lost our best players before. But at the end the day I’m a Spurs fan, not a Harry Kane fan. We’d move on to a new era with new players and under a new manager who knows what will happen. There’s no reason why we couldn’t come back from it.
Kane is clearly a world class player but I think Mourinho’s tactics make us feel even more dependent on him. Our game plan pretty much relies on his brilliance to pick out a pass or get a shot off in the final third.
If we had a manager with a more fluid style of play that didn’t rely on individual brilliance then we wouldn’t rely on him as much as we have done the last 18 months, and we’d probably be getting much better numbers and output from our other attacking options. When Guardiola called us the “Harry Kane Team” 4 years ago I thought that was a disservice to Poch and our other attacking players. But it would be hard to argue against calling us “The Harry Kane Team” right now purely down to the way Jose sets us up.
Clearly there’s still a lot to be decided and it’s by no means clear cut what is going to happen. Lloris himself said that in 2014 that the appointment of Poch convinced him to stay and stick with Spurs and he’s still here 7 years later. Obviously you can’t compare directly but the same could happen with Kane depending on what happens this year.
It would be a massive massive blow if he leaves, and would hurt a lot more than we’ve lost our best players before. But at the end the day I’m a Spurs fan, not a Harry Kane fan. We’d move on to a new era with new players and under a new manager who knows what will happen. There’s no reason why we couldn’t come back from it.
Kane is clearly a world class player but I think Mourinho’s tactics make us feel even more dependent on him. Our game plan pretty much relies on his brilliance to pick out a pass or get a shot off in the final third.
If we had a manager with a more fluid style of play that didn’t rely on individual brilliance then we wouldn’t rely on him as much as we have done the last 18 months, and we’d probably be getting much better numbers and output from our other attacking options. When Guardiola called us the “Harry Kane Team” 4 years ago I thought that was a disservice to Poch and our other attacking players. But it would be hard to argue against calling us “The Harry Kane Team” right now purely down to the way Jose sets us up.
TheRevolution
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It's going to be really difficult for a new manager to hit the ground running next season. If we get Nagelsmann in he's not going to have much time to coach our players with the Euros this Summer and I don't see how we're going to improve without massive investment in our defence.
Gareth88
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Possibly he hasnt signed that new contract yet
duffman22
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The defence does need work but the Lampard/Tuchel situation shows how much difference a coach can make in a short space of time with some tactical adjustments.
It won’t be easy but I think the right coach could get us playing much better next season, particularly with the attack talent we have. The squad is much stronger now than it was in 2014 when Poch took over.
5? Try 10.
If we sell Kane, we might be in the bottom 6 next year without his goal contributions and defensive efforts.
Our recruitment has been so bad for the past 5 years even if we spend 200 mil on transfers this summer I have no faith whatsoever in us bringing in anyone better than what we currently have.
