Harry Kane

Frozen_Waffles said:

Kane is being an absolute dick in the way he is going about it, but he would be fucking stupid to stay with us given the direction we are going, boyhood club or not.

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I agree with your first statement, but there is a messy little thing called a contract that says he has to stay with us, until we are ready to sell.

Frozen_Waffles said:

Anyone else petrified about how we will do on the pitch without Kane?

He carried us last season (to 7th), in the second half of the season we were regularly being outplayed by relegation candidates. Without Kane we are probably struggling to make top 10 with the current squad. (Perhaps worse)

We currently have three players (son, peh and lloris) that are good enough, we wouldn't be that bothered if we sold the majority of the other players.

We are relying on a 21 year old to boss it after one good season in the championship.

We currently have 1 striker on the books without Kane (and that's if you call son a striker).

If you made a list of all our midfield players, the only one you wouldn't sell is hoijberg.

We have sold our best defender and none of the others could be described as having had a good season.

We have a new manager and any new players will need time to settle. We are apparently reliant on selling 5/6 players to bring more players in (Romero apart) which given the ability of those players is optimistic to think we will sell them for a reasonable fee.

Pep said 'the Harry Kane team'. It was disrespectful and shows the class (or lack there of) from that club.

But he wasn't wrong.

At this point I'm glad we got in Nuno (as an experienced pl manager) because if we'd have taken a punt on Gerard or someone who lacked experience in this league we could be pulled into a relegation battle.

We are relying on Dele, Lucas, ndombele, GLC and bergwijn to bring an attacking threat (son apart). That is depressing, let's hope Fabio can work miracles, because he really has to.

That poch spurs team of 2016/17 would absolutely pulverise us at the moment. We have dropped (and are dropping) like a stone.

Kane is being an absolute dick in the way he is going about it, but he would be fucking stupid to stay with us given the direction we are going, boyhood club or not.

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It's unsettling for sure.

Paratici has been tasked with doing 3 years of rebuilding in about 6 weeks, when nobody has any money.

We all know how we got here, and who is mostly to blame for it. Levy created the environment for this to happen, whilst Kane is accountable for his own behaviour in revealing his appalling lack of character and respect for the fans.

It is what it is.

In 5 weeks we'll have a talented young team to be proud of, and new heroes will be born. One of whom is signing today. Some will be false gods, some the real deal.

For every Harry Kane or Sol Campbell, there's a Jan Vertonghen, Heung Min-Son, or Ledley King.

Anyway, lets reserve the panic button for if and when we've not done our business at the end of the window eh?

Moonie said:

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Someone call up and see if you can get through to Charlie….go on, gotta be someone brave enough ?

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How the fuck have they got 9 ratings? Does Harry keep forgetting he’s already done it?

(Score of 1.8 too - guess H isn’t happy with the service he’s getting…)

Mourinho's big mistake was telling Levy what he wanted to hear about the strength of our squad. Our CBs aren't top half material let alone top 4. Paratici has obviously highlighted this so I am actually much more optimistic about this season. We have quality attacking players, with or without Harry, but we can't go into every game knowing we will be essentially starting from at least 0-1 down

gibbospurs said:

Goes to voicemail lol

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Did you leave them one?

spursfan77 said:

Yeah I had a look the other week, amusing. There is only circa £200k in the company.

Fuck me I'm tempted to give them a call.

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Offer to buy the company, for 250k, then negotiate a new contract with spurs.. with. 300m buyout

makeveli said:

Mahrez , Sterling and 100 mill?

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Mahrez, Sterling, Laporte, Dias, Stones, Ederson, De Bruyne, Walker, Grealish, Fernandinho, Foden, Goater, Dickov, Franny Lee and £100M and then I’d consider it.

We have over the last 5-6 years had huge problems with the HG-balance of our squad. If HK leaves, it´s easy to say we can replace him with this or that foreign striker. I´m not saying that anyone has said that Vlahovic or any other strikers we´ve been rumoured to be looking at could actually replace HK, but more to come in and do a job as a striker.

But in my mind, ideally, we should look for players that qualify as HG. The huge problem in that aspect, though, is the obvious lack of HG players at the right level of quality we would like to see come to our club. Many here expressed that Danny Ings could´ve been agood signing for us (at the right price). He´s going to Villa now.

But what are the other options available to us? And what would they cost?

A couple of benchmarks have already been set:
Grealish = £100M
Ings = 25 + 5 -> £30M
Lukaku = £110-130M (apparently)

But what are the options to us? If we, for argument sake, say we want someone that is (A) HG; (B) within an acceptable age range (i.e. max age of 28-29 for example); and (C) of a decent quality - who could we feasibly attract and get their clubs to the negotiating table? A quick look at the other PL clubs:

Arsenal: none
Aston Villa: Ollie Watkins
Brentford: Ivan Toney - but would they even contemplate selling him? I bet a lot of their hopes of surviving in the PL is placed on his shoulders.
Brighton: none
Burnley: none
Chelsea: Tammy Abraham - would Chelsea deal with us, and would he come to us? At the right price and given that HK is not there to compete; a possible ´yes´ on both?
Crystal Palace: none
Everton: Dominic Calvert-Lewin
Leeds: Patrick Bamford - the late bloomer is already 27 (28 in september), and has a strong position at Leeds. I would suspect both player and club would be reluctant for a this move.
Leicester: Kelechi Iheanacho - after the arrival of Daka, is he still seen as the long term replacement for Vardy? Breakthrough season of sorts last year: would he want to come to us?
Liverpool: none
Man City: none (and of their attacking players that qualify, neither Sterling nor Foden would even contemplate coming to us).
Man Utd: Marcus Rashford - neither club nor player would be interested.
Man Utd: Mason Greenwood - it´s extremely unlikely, the price would be enormous, and at 19 he´s still more of a talent than an accomplished senior player.
Man Utd: Jesse Lingard - will be 29 in December, and the reports say that he prefers to stay at MU and fight for a place rather than go back to Spammers on a permanent deal. And he isn´t a striker either.
Newcastle: none
Norwich: none
Southampton: none
Watford: none
West Ham: none
Wolves: none

From all the PL clubs there aren´t that many options.

There were media reports last summer saying we were interested in Ollie Watkins. I can´t really remeber if any of our ITKs said that we were after him though. But after only one season at Villa, and seeing the success he enjoyed there, it would probably take an formidable bid to make the club interested. Especially as their coffers are full of 70 million reasons to say no (Grealish minus Ings).

The best choice in my opinion, both looking at the age and the quality of the player, would be Dominic Calvert-Lewin. I´m no agent or club owner, but given other prices in the market and the importance of the player to the club, i could easily imagine him being priced up to somewhere in the region of £75-80M? I have a hard time seeing Everton being very interested in a £50M bid from a rival PL club. But I might be very wrong of course.

I think we could get the player interested though: "filling the empty spot after Kane", playing in London for a (slightly) bigger club, higher wages, better team mates, etc.

The point is: to replace Harry Kane with someone of good quality (with a high ceiling), that is both HG and PL-proven would be very costly.

gibbospurs said:

Goes to voicemail lol

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Did you really try it?! Cheeky if so, I like it!

spursfan77 said:

Did you leave them one?

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Bloody good question….

spursfan77 said:

Did you leave them one?

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Nah. I’m guessing his voicemail might be full checking out the reviews on the website. ?. Bet it’s all us lot ?

I’d forgive him if he publicly apologized ahead of the season and said he’s committing to the club.

It’s of course not going to happen though because he’s a clueless dickhead

Trix said:

I don't know about that to be honest. I'm not sure just how much of this is City's fault.

It's starting to look like they only came in for him because they thought they could get him for £100mil, and they thought that because the Kane's told them as much.

They did bid that very early on, It was rejected, now HK is sulking and City haven't come back in for him. It's easy to lay the blame at City's door because of who they are and how they have gone about things, but you really shouldn't underestimate just how thick and also naive Harry and Charlie are. I have been told a few things over the last weeks regarding Charlie and how he operates which I've shared privately with those above. I've been debating whether or not to share some of it, but it's not really the time or place right now.

FWIW when I've said in the past he was amateur hour it appears I've given him too much credit.

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City are still at fault for not questioning the £100m figure.

It's the footballing equivalent of following a link to buy a brand new ipad for £99.

I am sure there was a conversation and Harry likely received assurances along the lines of not blocking a fair bid, but I just can't see Levy putting a specific number on that, I mean why would he. If this was last summer, we were in the middle of the pandemic with no idea when matchday revenues would ever return.

There has also been contradictions from the Kane camp, he mentions £100 million to Neville, but the Sun story quotes £160 million. If the gentlemen's agreement was specific why would they quote a larger number in a story which they were obviously behind.

We should have been looking for a striker to compete with rather than just cover him anyways.

No player is undroppable and there has been plenty of times during seasons where Kane should have been subbed or rotated.

Is that prick still with our club, fuck of HK u snake

Scott Spur said:

If Spurs have any intention whatsoever of letting him go to City for the right sum, we need a Paratici deadline on this one.

There is no way we should let City should have the opportunity to drag this out to Deadline Day and us end up with a 2021 version of Frazier Campbell.

Weakening an opponent by taking their star player is one thing, leaving them no time to replace him is another. If I was City chairman that's exactly what I would try to do.

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One thing I do trust is The Don not takingthe same stance as Levy and letting this hang till the deadline day. I would think if we get that lad from Florentina then we are hoping City come back with an improved offer and if they do, we won’t be left holding the baby so to speak.
Paratici I would hope has this covered in a worst case scenario.

gibbospurs said:

Goes to voicemail lol

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“Hi I am away from the office in Florida right now....”

LeSoupeKitchen said:

City are still at fault for not questioning the £100m figure.

It's the footballing equivalent of following a link to buy a brand new ipad for £99.

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Perhaps they thought the pandemic had hit us hard and we needed to cash in? I mean if Kane has told them I have an agreement that I can leave for £100mil because we aren't in Europe I can see why they chance their arm.

Anyway lets hope they somehow come in with an acceptable amount and we move on.

I'm just very doubtful they will.

Got to say this will hurt brand ‘Kane’ for a long time yet. Legacy destroyed in a matter of weeks.