Harry Kane

[RuskyM]

Everytime we have got better. Fact. I don't love Levy but since 2008 the change in the club has been astronomical.

Not instantly but we have grown as a club and achieved better things. The Bale, VDV, Modric era which followed Berba exit was surpassed by the this era.

Yes it takes a bit of time and getting it right all rebuilds do.

You can only evaluate this Kane sale after a few seasons. The signings need to settle, and we will need a few more transfer windows.

Then with the stadium and increased financial power we might finally be at the top this next time round.

Look at Liverpool with Coutinho. If you sell your best player and do it right good things can happen.

except we didn't get better as a result of those transfers: they just happened in a chronological order, there's no cause and effect. we sold berbatov and keane and then got 2 points from 8 games. we sold bale and lost 6-0 to city and 5-0 to liverpool at home.

i am so, so tired of "take time to settle" and "give it a few years". ENIC have been here for twenty years promising brighter tomorrows that have not come.

i just cannot grasp this "to get better, sell your best player". it's like deciding the best way to train for a marathon is to lose some weight by cutting off your foot.

 

[thelak]

We sold Berbatov, we got better.

We sold Bale, we got better.

If we sell Kane we will get better.

Last year was the end of this cycle. As said above the final roll of the dice was Jose.

A rebuild is more exciting than another year like last year with Kane and Son doing thier best with a load of sub standard performances around them.

Gollini, Romero, Tomiyasu, Gli.

These signing wouldn't be happening otherwise. We go again.

Need to get that bit of tottenham magic back.

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Most fans would have liked / hoped our trajectory would be buying the players you list above to fit around Kane and challenge for trophies

Not another cycle of rebuilding and using funds from selling our star player to try and just get back to where we were a couple of years ago

 

[dudu]

My trying to convince myself this won't happen just proves how real confirmation bias is.

 

[thelak]

I'm sort of surprised that many people appear to have been hit hard by this report, it's based on nothing more than we already know and written up by a hack as a story to fill space and get in on the act.
That doesn't alter the fact mind you, that Harry Kane is leaving, last year was the "one more year" to hopefully achieve something with us and this year is the sad goodbye.
Harry Kane is effectively, sadly, too good for the likes of us at the moment and at his age he needs to make the move now, he's entitled to win some silverware and to be honest it is unacceptable that a player of his class should finish his career empty handed.
We are embarking on a new drive forward, a new project if you will, and he ain't got time to be part of it.
Sorry to burst anyone's bubble but we might as well come to terms with it and start getting excited about what's ahead, not least with some of our own youngsters.

I think people were hoping some Nuno Espirto double training sessions, a hug from Sonny and seeing Paratici negotiate for 15 players at a time from 3 phones might convince him to stay

 

[Haddock]

JJ's tweet a few months back, Harry's teary-eyed goodbye at NWHL, Harry's 'come and get me'-interview.

I'd say it's obvious that H's has more or less told the hierarchy that he's ready to go. If the price Levy wants is met is another question.

 

[Gassin's finest]

I've been keeping it to myself, but I've been of a mind since the Euros finished and I started paying attention to our new Nuno Spurs, that maybe selling H for a couple hundred grand* would be really progressive for us.

That bunce could go straight back into the squad (if spent wisely), and let Nuno really make his team his way.

Some may be underwhelmed that we're back here (and I can't blame them) but it's like the start of the Poch era again. So I'm not too upset if he left.

Of course it could still be bollocks, in which case he better bloody stay and break some more goal scoring records with us.

Edit: 200 mill!

 

[doctor stefan Freud]

I've been keeping it to myself, but I've been of a mind since the Euros finished and I started paying attention to our new Nuno Spurs, that maybe selling H for a couple hundred grand would be really progressive for us.

That bunce could go straight back into the squad (if spent wisely), and let Nuno really make his team his way.

Some may be underwhelmed that we're back here (and I can't blame them) but it's like the start of the Poch era again. So I'm not too upset if he left.

Of course it could still be bollocks, in which case he better bloody stay and break some more goal scoring records with us.

 

[Gassin's finest]

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Doh'eth!

 

[nedley]

I’d 1,000,000% rather Chelsea/West Ham or Arsenal win the league next season than Kane at City. Anyone but them

This is just so weird.

 

[Pekoni]

We all knew he was leaving either this summer or the next and to one club only, City. Hopefully we do smart business with the money we get from him.

 

[sidford]

16 disagrees.

Baffling.

Stockholm syndrome

 

[Doctor Dinkey]

However you spin it this is a grievous blow for Spurs fans, much worse than Berbatov, Bale, Modric, etc, not only in terms of contribution to the team, but in terms of our feelings towards the club, its identity, and its future. He was our special player, the 'one of our own', the home grown striker who was going to become our greatest ever. Not that is over, and it feels like we're starting again after a couple of awful seasons for the club.
From a practical viewpoint, it is crucial we replace him with a well established elite forward, which is going to be hard to do. Kane and Bale contributed to a huge chunk of our goals. We can't be starting the season with Son up front and Scarlett chipping in until the next window. Nuno would find himself in almost the same situation he found himself in at his last season at Wolves, bereft of his top goalscorer, and we know how that went.
On the plus side £160m seems like a good price, and Paratici seems to know where to find players. I just hope he's got enough time and influence to get a big morale boosting name over the line in time for Citeh.

 

[Hoopspur]

Whoever it is, let’s buy a Captain or influencer for the team with the money.

 

[Zaphod]

One way to look at it would be that 19 other teams in the Prem managed without Harry Kane last season and six of them finished above us!

If they can all cope without him, maybe we can as well.

 

[N17TJK]

If he’s going for the second highest transfer fee EVER received, just coming out of a 18 month global pandemic when players are being quoted at cut prices then let’s embrace it.

I’ve got enough confidence after seeing the caliber of player we have been linked with over the last 2-3 weeks to know we aren’t going to “do a Bale” and waste the money recieved. They scream of the type of signing Leicester make that then send us all into a frenzy 2 years later when they turn out great buys.

Chelsea, Leicester, Man United and F***ING West Ham all finished above us last year and guess what? Not one of them had Harry Kane or even anyone close to him. In Son we still have someone that would have finished top scorer at any of those clubs last season.

Invest the money by improving the rest of the team ALOT and we will be alright. Ings is a no brainier now and will replace 2/3rds of Kanes goals. Plug the leaky error prone defence and we’re a better TEAM for it. Ings at 29 gives a great opportunity to blood Scarlett in Conference league and league cups. I think Dane is going to be the real deal in 2/3 years.

Man City are always going to win the league 3 out of 5 times now, nothing will change. And if Harry want to trade immortality at his boyhood club for a few easy league titles and domestic cups then let him crack on. Tottenham Hotspur we’re here long before him and they’ll be here long after. Viva la Greavsie.

 

[kmk]

Liverpool have sold Torres, Suarez & Sterling in previous seasons but still managed to rebuild and win trophies.

Leicester have also remained competitive.

We just need to reinvest the Kane money wisely.

 

[DanNolan]

So this morning seems to be the acceptance stage.
Personally feel that the story is a power move and the only way anything has changed is in city have now decided to pay. I refuse to believe that there wasn’t always a price for Kane, still don’t see city paying 160m.

 

[Yiddo100]

 

[Macwally]

After the statements Nuno came out with in his press conference about Kane, I feel he must have had reassurances that we'd be keeping him this year. I feel it would have to be a huge amount of cash to change that stance.

 

[Yiddo100]