Harry Kane

[BucSpur]

It seems highly likely to me that Kane's brother is just nominally his agent. It gives him something to do rather than just giving him cash but most importantly he is a buffer between Kane and the club/Sponsor/who ever. His brother is a glorified secretary.

Very difficult to sit down at new contract time and say i love the club, love playing here but i want X00,000 thousand a week or i am leaving. It just doesn't really work. Very easy to say I wouldn't want to leave but if my agent says i am worth that then i have to follow his advice, i'm just the footballer.

Harry Kane is representing Harry Kane or he would have a super agent. Its then easy to see how he might have got himself into this mess as he has been an absolute golden boy since he broke through. Very hard to think of any negative press he has received, its simple to see how you might start thinking you are Godlike after the tough start and being proven right. You must feel "Chosen".

 

[wishkah]

it's seemingly becoming clear that this is where our money is coming from in my opinion.

 

[Maxtremist]

I don’t think it’s a sport when you have sponsorship deals rigged in a way to fund your club that other clubs cannot do, and the people overseeing the sport do nothing.

Well I fully disagree with that. It's an imbalanced sport and other people can and do get many other advantages and put themselves in a different space to others... but it's still a sport. You still have to win on the pitch. Still gotta do that.

 

[Doctor Dinkey]

My solution would be to take £100m and Laporte, then Kane, Man C and Spurs can all claim the win.

That may well be your solution but I doubt very much it will be Man City's...

 

[cozzo]

I am not feeling this behaviour of Kane, because If Arsenal were winning the league year after year and in the champions league, would he be behaving the same way to join them?

 

[JacoZA]

I've seen some spectacular own goals these last few days, but this is one of the finest. Man who makes living from fans' opinions tells fans to not have opinions. (Also, the lack of self-awareness in this tweet is of legendary levels.)

 

[Yantino]

Some of you need to have a word with yourselves. Harry Kane has remained with this Club for way longer than he should have done. He'd be staying if Levy had made the right choices over the last few years. Kane truly loved the Club and gave it his best years for a lot less money than he'd have made elsewhere. It's Levy's fault. Levy didn't get the players in when we needed them and Levy fucked up the Club's trajectory, not Kane.

Going on strike and refusing to return is not the way to handle it though. I expected better from the England captain and a man that has built his reputation on being a model professional. Can only assume that he is being very poorly advised.

He is not Modric, or Bale, or Berbatov. He has come through the ranks at Spurs. It is very poor and i think the club will make sure this situation is used to set an example for the future. He cannot be allowed to sulk and dictate what happens, especially when there are 3 years left on his contract.

I think the club should put out a statement to say that he won't be sold to anyone in the premier league now. If Harry wants to go (which he can) it will have to be abroad.

 

[Spurslove]

I think people are getting a little carried away. I'm willing to wait and see how this plays out before I condemn a man many see as a present club legend.

We know the outcomes, let's see what happens. If Kane stays then what reason would we have for not getting behind him? He hasn't been that vocal about this people are just reacting to new articles.

See, I don't agree with this idea. You must understand the depth of feeling among us all at how badly and unprofessionally he's handled this by just not turning up for training and, as far as anyone knows, without a word of explanation.

Of course we're angry and we have every reason and right to be. By this one single act, his entire reputation with us has been tarnished for ever, something I for one could never have seen coming just a few days ago. So no, we're not getting 'carried away' with our reactions and let's remember that he must have known full well what those reactions were going to be like when he decided not to turn up for training.

Personally, I can't see how he can play for us ever again, but that's exactly what he wants.

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[Indisguise]

Don't sign 6 year contracts then....simples.

Levy has his well documented and argued flaws....

Harry Kane is a prick.

You're not living in the real world mate. Every player signs contracts in the knowledge that money talks. If the fee and the motivation is large enough, the player goes elsewhere and the contract means diddly squat.

 

[Maxtremist]

City essentially play with two decks of cards. Thier win last season was probably the least impressive prem title ever for me, given the ridiculous rotation of players

I don't disagree that City stacking the deck, buying multiple decks etc... makes their wins so much less impressive and makes it more fun and less competitive and seem like less of an achievement.

My only point is they still have to do the thing. They still have to win at the end of the day. And as the CL shows they can't just win everything by default.

 

[SpartanSpur]

I wonder if City's plan here is to get us to the table more seriously on potential player swaps, which we have supposedly distanced ourselves from so far. It'd be a long shot whether we could get any of their quality fringe players to join us (Laporte, Bernardo, Mahrez) but the reality is there aren't any better players out there on the open market either. Mendes is Bernardo's agent, maybe we could lean on him here.

 

[Indisguise]

Going on strike and refusing to return is not the way to handle it though. I expected better from the England captain and a man that has built his reputation on being a model professional. Can only assume that he is being very poorly advised.

He is not Modric, or Bale, or Berbatov. He has come through the ranks at Spurs. It is very poor and i think the club will make sure this situation is used to set an example for the future. He cannot be allowed to sulk and dictate what happens.

Yeah, Levy's constant broken promises weren't the way to handle it either.

 

[CrazyKen]

I will always be grateful for all he has done for us. But my love for HK is now dead.

This is not the way to behave. If he stays, say he is really sorry and work hard to gain our trust again, then the love will blossom again..

But as things stand, I can not accept or forgive this type of behavior.

 

[bat-chain]

Some of you need to have a word with yourselves. Harry Kane has remained with this Club for way longer than he should have done. He'd be staying if Levy had made the right choices over the last few years. Kane truly loved the Club and gave it his best years for a lot less money than he'd have made elsewhere. It's Levy's fault. Levy didn't get the players in when we needed them and Levy fucked up the Club's trajectory, not Kane.

No viable bid anywhere close to his value to Tottenham has come in. Yet he is refusing to play for us again despite having a 3 year contract on about£250k a week.

It's not about having a word with ourselves, the people that claim to want him seem to not want him enough.

 

[Dougal]

Why would Levy lay the groundwork in a way that weakens our negotiating position? Whether we like it or not, Kane refusing to train weakens our position and I cannot see what we/Levy gets out of it.

He gets to sell an asset at the peak of its powers and he’ll get the deal he wants. Keane, Berbatov and Bale wanted out, did any of them leave on the cheap because of it?

 

[Flashp]

It’s knocking down the Lane all over again. We wouldn’t let him do that to our sacred home. Until he played the Stratford card. Then we begged him to tear it down. We’re being played. Again. And it won’t be the last time.

Lol what. I think a vast majority of fans very much wanted a new stadium, and also that they wanted it exactly where the old WHL was, possibility of Stratford or not.

Levy has committed many mistakes, but the stadium certainly isn't one.

 

[jolsnogross]

Ironically enough, Kane's move is the sort of ruthless winning mentality we've been crying out for. It's a shame for us, but not in the least bit surprising.

So many on here, many I presume are grown ups who've seen this show before, were so sure that HK wouldn't refuse to show up. It's pretty naive to think he'd just plod along with us when he could leave us to win trophies, while earning even more money doing so.

There's no need for pearl clutching. Levy could shut this down decisively if he wanted to by simply refusing to sell at any price. But he won't. And Kane will be lifting trophies in 9 or 10 months time, while our fans are raging at Nuno or the players.

 

[Maxtremist]

Some of you need to have a word with yourselves. Harry Kane has remained with this Club for way longer than he should have done. He'd be staying if Levy had made the right choices over the last few years. Kane truly loved the Club and gave it his best years for a lot less money than he'd have made elsewhere. It's Levy's fault. Levy didn't get the players in when we needed them and Levy fucked up the Club's trajectory, not Kane.

Two wrongs and all that.
Levy being a dick and not making the squad better is one thing. Kane now treating us like this to force a move is another.

This whole scenario and situation changes if Kane had just put in a transfer request and done it formally. Instead he's trying to engineer a move and force his way out whilst still keeping loyalty bonus' at play

 

[Supersi32]

You're not living in the real world mate. Every player signs contracts in the knowledge that money talks. If the fee and the motivation is large enough, the player goes elsewhere and the contract means diddly squat.

Player contracts are certainly not from the real world as you put it...

H is behaving like a prick....When you don't get your own way throw the toys out of the pram, proper role model behaviour.

 

[sparx100]

Is it training time yet?