Harry Kane

[nedley]

This uncertainty is good for nobody.

It really needs to be sorted out one way or another and that solely lands on Levy.

Unfortunately (or fortunately), depending on which way you look at it, Levy will always extract the maximum financials and favour that over any other factors.

A penny over preparation.

We've seen it before.

Hopefully we are coming to the end.

 

[KingKay]

I still think he’ll stay, could be in denial

I suspect he thought he’d have more options than just Bayern Munich and is weighing up whether that’s the career defining move he really wants. I don’t think it is.

 

[worcestersauce]

I don't think there's any uncertainty at the club whatsoever, there obviously is in here although I can't for the life of me understand why, the club and the manager know exactly what's going on. Harry Kane is going to Munich.

 

[cookiemonster]

That’s just not fair. I’m critical of the guy, but if the right offer has come in, you can’t blame him.

What will be of more interest is what comes next.

Spend well, and we’ll end up stronger and better. Spend badly, as we tend to, and we’ll be in a very tricky place

My point is how many of our best players have to leave over the years because they perceived a lack of ambition to win things from the owners

Not just Kane

 

[Daredevil]

So glad this should be over tonight.

I’m an idiot.

 

[hooty]

Some incredibly strange viewpoints about Bayern Munich on here (and indeed an elite sportsman's desire for accolades).

Don't begrudge Kane the move and can even wish him well if he's going abroad.

 

[Vwbottom]

I’m an idiot.

You’re in the right place my friend.

 

[Archibald&Crooks]

You’re in the right place my friend.

Chose 'funny' could easily have been 'winner'

 

[keithtighe93]

Oh man, I know logic says 100m pounds & abroad is the best outcome but fuck me I hope he stays

 

[philll]

If he's going he shouldn't play a single minute today. Give him a big send off after, do a lap of the pitch, whatever, but we're so far behind everybody else on actual pre-season game time, we need all of the minutes to go to players who are actually going to be contributing to our season.

 

[zepstar]

An unbelievable player. One of the best, if not the best, to ever do it for the club. A fine player and a fine man. We’ll be less of a team without him, it goes without saying.

He’s been incredibly loyal. His trajectory coincided with the club, until it didn’t. He then gave us good years under incorrect managers, albeit spending some of that time agitating for the City move. Let me be clear: he’s a Tottenham man. But let me posit one: have you ever heard him come out with any sort of unequivocal vocal commitment or love for Tottenham? To my mind, we’ve just had a series of well-managed PR fence-sitting for around six years.

Le Tissier he is not. Shearer he is not. He outgrew the club, and he’s taking his chance to move to the European elite. It would have happened years ago had his own team not bungled it.

 

[$hoguN]

If he isn’t staying he shouldn’t play today.

He is living every fansdream, earning untold amounts and has an opportunity to stay and leave a legacy as Spurs, England and PL top goal scorer. If he goes he is choosing to throw that away in pursuit of meaningless titles at Bayern.

if that’s his choice, that’s his choice, but he shouldn’t get a hero’s send off and take minutes away from us bedding in a new strike force.

if he wants to say goodbye let him do a lap at the end.

 

[lukadownthelane]

Some incredibly strange viewpoints about Bayern Munich on here (and indeed an elite sportsman's desire for accolades).

Don't begrudge Kane the move and can even wish him well if he's going abroad.

Indeed. They are one of the select few elite clubs in the world. People are moaning about how they’ve behaved and then saying he could have waited a year and then gone to Madrid. Have people forgotten how Madrid behaved with Modric and Bale?

It’s just football. There are no gentlemen! Those days are long gone.

Personally I’d rather watch Kane for another year and not care about the transfer fee but clearly that would be a stupid thing for the club to do. Good luck to him if he goes. I’ll never forget the New Year’s Day game against Chelsea when he tore Terry a new one. What an atmosphere!

 

[Stavrogin]

My point is how many of our best players have to leave over the years because they perceived a lack of ambition to win things from the owners

Not just Kane

that's a crazy way of looking at things.

Modric etc. Went to much bigger clubs with much much higher wages.

Due to our growth we managed to get the best years of Kane and pay him much higher wages than we might previously have thought possible.

It's unfortunate we had a few years of stagnation and kane has aged to the point it's best to leave. The board made mistakes over the past few years but they've clearly done something right to get us to this point.

 

[olliec]

I bet Bayern were so confident at the beginning by walking in and bullying their way to getting Kane. This was Very naive of them.

 

[fishhhandaricecake]

I know people are saying if he's off to Bayern then we shouldn't include him, but come on...

It's not Modric, Bale or Berbatov.... this guy has been a part of everything enjoyable in the last 10 years, he's spurs through and through.

I'm not saying we start him, but he should get a chance to say goodbye.

He could have gone years ago and didn't, he stayed and he never downed tools, even when we went shit. He kept on being the best striker/playmaker around.

For the last few seasons he's been one of the only decent things about spurs.

So I say again, give him a send off that he fully deserves. He is welcome back anytime.

I don't give a shit about the media circus or whatever, give the guy the respect he has earned.

this.

 

[Ribble]

My point is how many of our best players have to leave over the years because they perceived a lack of ambition to win things from the owners

Not just Kane

Such as? Modric, Bale, Berbatov, Keane & Carrick all left at a point where the clubs they moved on to were significantly ahead of us, not because of any lack of ambition. Their sales almost all played a part in rebuilding the club from the massive stumble that left it mid-table in the first decade of the PL.

What on earth is driving this weird revisionism acting like we've been a top club for the past 20 years? We were a mess in the early 00s and weren't going anywhere fast until Jol came along and committed to the plan of player development. Harry getting us top 4 at the time was a massive achievement too. The Poch era built on both to return the club to near where it had fallen from certainly, but pretending the fall hadn't happened and the rebuilding wasn't necessary is utterly bizarre.

 

[tommyt]

I know people are saying if he's off to Bayern then we shouldn't include him, but come on...

It's not Modric, Bale or Berbatov.... this guy has been a part of everything enjoyable in the last 10 years, he's spurs through and through.

I'm not saying we start him, but he should get a chance to say goodbye.

He could have gone years ago and didn't, he stayed and he never downed tools, even when we went shit. He kept on being the best striker/playmaker around.

For the last few seasons he's been one of the only decent things about spurs.

So I say again, give him a send off that he fully deserves. He is welcome back anytime.

I don't give a shit about the media circus or whatever, give the guy the respect he has earned.

I agree, but what is obvious, in my opinion, is that players, no matter how much they claim to love the club, aren't 'fans'.

Fans don't switch clubs. Maybe I'm naive in this respect.

 

[alexis]

that's a crazy way of looking at things.

Modric etc. Went to much bigger clubs with much much higher wages.

Due to our growth we managed to get the best years of Kane and pay him much higher wages than we might previously have thought possible.

It's unfortunate we had a few years of stagnation and kane has aged to the point it's best to leave. The board made mistakes over the past few years but they've clearly done something right to get us to this point.

A few years of stagnation is being hugely generous and high wages is ignoring woeful lack of bollocks in bringing in the players which would have delivered cups. High wages would have been Hs icing on the cake league and euro wins would have kept him here. It seems your severely neglectful of the reasons he’s leaving by sugarcoating the positives on what ENIC have done for us.

 

[JacoZA]

He should definitely play.

But as goalkeeper, in remembrance of his greatest performance in a Spurs shirt.