If Harry ever wanted out...

[DJS]

What a pointless thread.

 

[ostrov]

Are you serious? What about Rooney who was one of Everton's own? I'm sure there are other examples too, I can't think of any. Plenty in the lower leagues, Bale obviously left southampton, Lennon - Leeds.

Why not? Every case is unique and HK has very unique connection with Spurs.
I may be wrong but I hope I'm not.

 

[JUSTINSIGNAL]

FFS

 

[eViL]

@SpursManChris = 100% Gooner.

 

[Dundalk_Spur]

Just when I wonder why I have this guy on ignore................

 

[KaribYid]

Harry already left in 2012..

... I'll get me coat.

 

[Shea]

But he didn't want to leave bad enough otherwise he would have stood strong and not signed the contract.

I think he was just weak willed and pressured in to it

It's one of them subjective measures - who really knows, it might be a case where a player will want to go and nothing can be done and it might be a situation where a player wants to go but can be convinced to stay if the club outlines their ambition and pays up to make it worth the players while to stay

It's going to be different player to player

Kane, who this thread is about, could want to go in the future and refuse to sign a contract and force his way out or he could or he could want to go but the club could convince him to stay

Anderton wanted to go but was convinced to stay, that's the last example I can really think of of a spurs player who wanted to go and was wanted by a significantly bigger club but did not leave in the end (which was another question raised in this thread)

 

[tommo84]

Then why write that essay which was going nowhere? The question in the pole was simple with yes or no for an answer.

I was explaining my position so as not to appear rude to the OP, and my comments went some way to explaining why a yes/no poll is insufficient and even irrelevant.

 

[Indacupfortottenham]

Sign up the "hypno-dog" from Britain's got talent, job done

 

[ultimateloner]

I think we can force him to stay for one more season. He needs game time and his wages are low, so we are in a stronger position than him. By the time he proves he is the real deal (2 seasons in a row with 20+ goals) we wouldn't be able to.

 

[chinaman]

I think if the club demonstrates that it is indeed going forward, he would stay.

 

[Metalhead]

Yes, we can't keep players that want to leave when a bid that is large enough comes in, that has been proven time and time again.

This.

 

[Donki]

Il put myself on the line here, I knew Berby, Modders and Blae would eventually move on, and more importantly want to move on, but I honestly think Kane is different. The thing is he is Spurs through and through and has the power to make sure Spurs try and meet his expectations. I honestly don't think he is going anywhere soon and it won't be a shitty situation it will be more a Teddy situation than a Bale situation. Basically I believe Kane will only leave if he believes that the club can't give him what he wants from his "lifetime" career.

 

[Gbspurs]

I'm bored so I thought I would count the number of times @SpursManChris used a question mark in this thread.

20. Fucking 20, Chris.

I have said before you remind me of my 4 year old who has no concept of anything or learned knowledge (because she is 4) so she has to question everything.

How are you not bored of this schtick yet? And yes, that is a question.

 

[Mr Pink]

When I saw the threat title I thought it was an old thread bumped ie Harry Redknapp lol

 

[tony_parkes]

I bet Spurs man Chris has that accent thing going on when he finishes every sentence like its a question.

 

[mattie g]

...should we let him? I want to get an idea of how many of you would force an unhappy Harry to stay. I don't think he wants out one bit, but he's a good test to see how you would view one of our own if that dark period in our clubs history ever arrived. It's a yes from me. If he ever decided he didn't want to be here then why should he get to play for us? Let's hear your reasons for or against.

I'd actually like to get an idea of how many miserable fuckwit Spurs fans are actually out there.

On second thought...maybe I don't.

 

[Matthew Wyatt]

This is quite possibly the stupidest thread I've ever seen on here. We're asked to vote on a negative hypothetical -- did anyone actually do it? I can't tell unless I vote, which of course I won't. This place needs some quality control.

 

[YankeeYid9]

Have we ever kept anyone before?

HEURELHO GOMES we kept him!!!

 

[SpursManChris]

Rooney's position wasn't all that comparable either. He was at a club who needed the money and so they made no great effort to keep him

Exactly, they made no GREAT effort to keep him but the trigger was still that he wanted out, not that Everton wanted him gone for the money.

In all the cases we've had of a big player leaving they have forced our hand, rather than us opening the door for them to leave. So, again, the situation is not comparable.

Of course it is comparable - I wouldn't call it "forcing our hand" it's just that players want out. It doesn't matter how forceful they are being, they just want out and at some point we have opened the door for them to leave. Are you saying we didn't open the door? Of course we did. And it seems like you're saying that the only reason Rooney left Everton was because they "opened the door." No, he wanted to leave. And they let him. Simple.

we seem to resist selling unless the player forces his way out by being disruptive, either publicly or in private, as was the case with Berbatov and Keane.

Are there examples of players we have resisted selling? I'm thinking Modric - I forgotten whether he was disruptive or not.

In those cases its really was not the club's decision to sell and Levy has tried to be smarter with contracts ever since.

Its always the clubs decision to sell. However, I think what you mean is, if a player wants out, it leaves us with little choice. Poor choice of words there, you make it sound like we're a sackless, powerless lot.