Man City launch £100m Harry Kane bid 'with view for swap deal' as Tottenham respond

[Neon_Knight_]

Might have a buy out clause in his contract!?

Has Levy ever put a buy-out clause in any player contract? (I suspect not, but if he did there would probably be some loophole/fine-print that prevents anyone activating it haha!)

 

[Japhet]

I agree, he's under contract to us. I don't buy into "He deserves this, that, or whatever" he gets paid a huge amount of money to play for us and was happy to sign a contract that will set him up for life. If we don't want to sell him this or next season there's very little he can do about it.

I agree, but we all know that players now can force the issue even when they have no right to do so. Our best hope is that Kane turns out to be as decent as he seems and that he does actually give a shit about the club he says is in his blood. Players are really quite lucky that supporters don't desert them to support clubs winning silverware but instead stick with it through rough and smooth. I suppose players like Kane though have everything they could possibly want in life, and if a bit of silverware is missing, that's what the greedy brain starts obsessing over.

 

[southlondonyiddo]

Has Levy ever put a buy-out clause in any player contract? (I suspect not, but if he did there would probably be some loophole/fine-print that prevents anyone activating it haha!)

I just find it odd how confident some parties are (especially the Kane camp) that he won’t be at Tottenham next season!

With all the history of dealing with Levy given he’s our talisman with 3 years left on his contract all the cards are held by Danny Boy this Summer. Unless there is something in the contract that weakens his hand!!??

 

[jazz15c]

Levy blatantly has an Outlook rule set up where any email containing a number smaller than £150 million goes straight to Deleted Items, and rightly so!

 

[TheBlueRooster]

I agree, but we all know that players now can force the issue even when they have no right to do so. Our best hope is that Kane turns out to be as decent as he seems and that he does actually give a shit about the club he says is in his blood. Players are really quite lucky that supporters don't desert them to support clubs winning silverware but instead stick with it through rough and smooth. I suppose players like Kane though have everything they could possibly want in life, and if a bit of silverware is missing, that's what the greedy brain starts obsessing over.

The last piece of this is something I've been thinking about for a while because he's twice come back from injury early to play in finals when he's clearly not match fit and looking at the moment he still isn't. I understand that players want trophies and would want to play in the finals to win them but the club comes first and personal glory is second.

 

[theShiznit]

Gutted to hear that Sterling is not interested in a move to us... As he truly is one of my favourite players outside of Spurs

 

[Neon_Knight_]

I just find it odd how confident some parties are (especially the Kane camp) that he won’t be at Tottenham next season!

With all the history of dealing with Levy given he’s our talisman with 3 years left on his contract all the cards are held by Danny Boy this Summer. Unless there is something in the contract that weakens his hand!!??

Their confidence means nothing (although I presume your perception of their confidence is based purely on media conjecture anyway).

Messi had pretty much cleared his locker and sold his house when he thought he could leave Barca not so long ago...now it looks like he'll be retiring there. ?

If there was a contract clause, the media would be all over this (helped by a leak from Kane's agent), rather than gossiping about a possibly fictional gentleman's agreement.

If there really was a gentleman's agreement between Levy and Kane (which Kane and his agent would have no way of enforcing), I'm fairly sure it would have been on the basis that a club offers a huge transfer fee, not on the basis of him being sold to the club of his choice / highest bidder even if their offer is too low. £100m would be too low, as no other CF of comparable ability will be available that cheaply.