Harry Kane

[wadewill]

One of the BM ITKs just posted this, basically saying Kane isn't happy about the number 10 situation at City....

City went back to Kane late Friday night with a revised proposal, based on a potential loss of longer term earnings from image rights (the whole not being number 10 thing). We will know tomorrow if he’s happy, but there will be no counter offer.

We haven’t tried to speak to Spurs directly for a week now, because of the unrest in the Kane camp.

If Kane is happy with the new proposal, we will speak to Spurs. If he’s not, we will pull the plug.

Its D-Day (metaphorically speaking).

So they have told him that the best they can do is #19 and add the little plus in like Zamorano did

 

[sausage]

Cheers for finding the info mate,

I find it so hard to believe that Kane's camp orchestrated such terrible decision making over the summer but they have the long term thinking to be concerned about earnings based on whether he's number 10 or not.

I think it's probably a slight twist on that.

Harry's long been the favourite son at Spurs. Generally treated as has the longest schlong in the club - preferential treatment etc. I think the way city have prioritised grealish, then given him the 10, whilst making flaccid displays of wanting to sign Harry... it's probably a wake up call, and I imagine the #10 fuss might be a subliminal show to sound out whether he's going to be the star, or the side dish.

 

[cjbyid]

Yeah, levy can't really accept anything from city now with a week left, even if they somehow come up with a humongous bid.

 

[WOTspur]

BM "itk" is complete and utter bollocks. Hilariously they've been consistently wrong about the Kane transfer so far

 

[Kuryakin]

What if they proposed the number 100 to Kane.

"That's ten times the number you had before 'Arry."
"Yeah obviously. Alright deal. HK100 it is."

 

[wrd]

I think it's probably a slight twist on that.

Harry's long been the favourite son at Spurs. Generally treated as has the longest schlong in the club - preferential treatment etc. I think the way city have prioritised grealish, then given him the 10, whilst making flaccid displays of wanting to sign Harry... it's probably a wake up call, and I imagine the #10 fuss might be a subliminal show to sound out whether he's going to be the star, or the side dish.

Yeah I think you may be right on that front, I think he has everyright to be annoyed at them because he made all the moves he could to make it happen and tarnished his reputation whilst their inaction has left him in purgatory.

 

[S17PUR]

No way Kane would have been involved today if a transfer was even remotely close. None of Spurs, City or Kane would be prepared to risk the possibility that he picks up an injury.

His increased social media presence (PR team aside) indicates that he knows he needs to build bridges.

I don't think it's beyond the realms of possibility that they come back and offer the (previous) asking price, but I don't know if Levy would sanction a deal at this stage. A lot will depend on if Paratici has any deals for replacements lined up. The media links all suggest not now, but who knows.

 

[Albertbarich]

I think they're absolutely longing this out. They know they can blow away most teams so they can wait for him.

They will be back with either what we want or very close to it.

Just a matter if we think its worth it

 

[Hotspur33]

He wears number 9 for England, and he is captain. So I assume if he really wanted the number 10, he could have it.
If he is desperate to win trophies, I'm sure the number on his shirt isn't gonna be an issue.

 

[KingNick]

One of the BM ITKs just posted this, basically saying Kane isn't happy about the number 10 situation at City....

City went back to Kane late Friday night with a revised proposal, based on a potential loss of longer term earnings from image rights (the whole not being number 10 thing). We will know tomorrow if he’s happy, but there will be no counter offer.

We haven’t tried to speak to Spurs directly for a week now, because of the unrest in the Kane camp.

If Kane is happy with the new proposal, we will speak to Spurs. If he’s not, we will pull the plug.

Its D-Day (metaphorically speaking).

In the same way people continue to spout rubbish on that site about the Webster ruling, they are now onto the issue of image rights. What they don't seem to understand is that the significance of image rights in football contracts has fallen significantly in recent years because of the HMRC clampdown. There is now very little creative thinking possible around image rights payments for an established domestic player.

There is also no UK trade mark for "Harry Kane 10" or "HK 10", although there are applications for "Harry Kane" and "Harry Kane HK". If his whole commercial strategy was based around number 10 (and Man City not giving him number 10 was so problematic) then this would have been reflected in what he had applied for with the UK IPO

 

[sausage]

In the same way people continue to spout rubbish on that site about the Webster ruling, they are now onto the issue of image rights. What they don't seem to understand is that the significance of image rights in football contracts has fallen significantly in recent years because of the HMRC clampdown. There is now very little creative thinking possible around image rights payments for an established domestic player.

There is also no UK trade mark for "Harry Kane 10" or "HK 10", although there are applications for "Harry Kane" and "Harry Kane HK". If his whole commercial strategy was based around number 10 (and Man City not giving him number 10 was so problematic) then this would have been reflected in what he had applied for with the UK IPO

Interesting actually that the "Harry Kane" trademark is 'owned' by his company, HK28 Ltd.

No idea what the 28 is, unless it's 18 + 10 (his spurs shirt numbers), but #28 is open at City. It's been HK28 for a long time, just implying that he could 'make it work' if needed.

 

[Rogmeister]

I think they're absolutely longing this out. They know they can blow away most teams so they can wait for him.

They will be back with either what we want or very close to it.

Just a matter if we think its worth it

I feel they will just try and fuck us over now. They know no one else can afford him so they will bid as late as possible with the amount we want so they get their man and don’t give us time to replace.

will levy fold? That’s the question

 

[walworthyid]

ITK is great and much appreciated. But we should really only look at what we know, or sort of know.

City have made an offer of somewhere in the region of £100-125 million for Kane. Levy hasn't entertained it at all, he won't answer their calls and insists that Kane isn't for sale.

At the time the offer was made public, we were suddenly making bids for Martinez and looking at another striker. It is fair to say that this was likely in preparation just in case Kane went. Then our interest seemed to go cold and we've heard nothing since.

Now, Kane has played for us, returned to social media. This tells me that we haven't been able to secure replacements and therefore Levy has decided that he is worth more to us on the field than the transfer fee.

When we have sold players previously it has not been for the money alone imo. Berbatov went on strike, and with Bale we spent all of his money before he went. Modric was made to wait and it was basically impossible to keep him.

Unless they offer something ridiculous like £200 million, Kane is going nowhere!

 

[bat-chain]

28 is his birthday.

 

[Serpico]

If Kane stays, my worry is Kane mustn’t disrupt the high energy football we are trying to achieve. He needs to muck in to the team spirit and Play Nuno's football not resort to his own ways. For me it’s healthy for teams to have goals spread throughout the team.

 

[Ben1]

If Kane stays, my worry is Kane mustn’t disrupt the high energy football we are trying to achieve. He needs to muck in to the team spirit and Play Nuno's football not resort to his own ways. For me it’s healthy for teams to have goals spread throughout the team.

tbf we’re desperate for someone that can hold the ball up, win a free kick or at least just keep possession for more than 5 seconds. All good ‘mucking in’ but serious lack of quality is an issue that’ll punish us over season, which Kane solves in 3/4 different ways.

 

[walworthyid]

If Kane stays, my worry is Kane mustn’t disrupt the high energy football we are trying to achieve. He needs to muck in to the team spirit and Play Nuno's football not resort to his own ways. For me it’s healthy for teams to have goals spread throughout the team.

I agree, but its also healthy to have the world's best striker (and number 10) doing what he does best! Because let's be honest, he does it pretty well!

 

[Delboy75]

Either City have overpaid £100m for Grealish or Chelsea got an absolute bargain for Lukaku £95m. Either way it does make £150m for Kane seem a lot. City should have got Kane first masssive mistake.

 

[Twizzle]

surely the fact that he just played means the deal isn't close

 

[Gambler]

Either City have overpaid £100m for Grealish or Chelsea got an absolute bargain for Lukaku £95m. Either way it does make £150m for Kane seem a lot. City should have got Kane first masssive mistake.

Especially when they got a third of that back by selling Abraham.