Harry Kane

[nicdic]

Really they just sold their two best midfielders and goal keeper, they get picked by big boys every season, yes I understand the disappointment but come off it

I don't think you can argue that we're a better run team than Brighton, from a footballing perspective, especially when it comes to player recruitment.

 

[Gingernut]

It’s still weird to me that no one but Bayern came in for England’s record goal scorer, World Cup golden boot, three time premier league golden boot, and previous premier league playmaker of the year winner. It must bug the fuck out of him, too.

I'm sure others enquired, but if in the Premier league Levy would have just said no

 

[mattspur1986]

 

[Tucker]

Why are people saying vlahovic?

Because they don’t want us to waste a fortune on a player with half a knee that’s a busted flush. Signing Fati will be a disaster if it happens.

 

[Gb160]

It’s still weird to me that no one but Bayern came in for England’s record goal scorer, World Cup golden boot, three time premier league golden boot, and previous premier league playmaker of the year winner. It must bug the fuck out of him, too.

Probably because they knew it would mean dealing with baldylocks.

 

[Colonel_Klinck]

Can we please not spunk this money on a load of shit Levy.

 

[nidge]

Haha

 

[funkycoldmedina]

Not if we've got 3 more players we signed as gambles that haven't worked out that we need to shift.

That's the spirit

 

[lami]

This is all on Levy. He, the board have never shown the ambition needed to keep or buy the best players in the world. We will never reach the heights that we all dream of under Enic. I’m not convinced by any of our signings bar Maddison and let’s be honest, if Leicester were still in the PL we would never have got him. Can you ever see us signing players like Rice, Caicedo etc. I like Ange but fear he will be fed the same shit as the other ‘top’ managers that we have had.

I both agree and disagree with this.

We have made some good buys of late (Paratici) Sarr, Philips, Udodgie, Maddison. Yes they're signings that are going to get better, but it's a step in the right direction.

You're right, under ENIC we're never gonna take the next step. The issue we have, is that we can't go and buy a player for 100mil because we have too many other positions that need improving (ENICs poor buys in the past). If we do finally get a team that is stable, I would imagine we'll see us buying players for daft prices.

Hate them or love them, ENIC have been good and bad for this club.
It's what they now do that will define them.

 

[dannyo]

I think this is a very one-eyed take.

You can only sell when somebody makes an acceptable offer. Bayern started very low. How do you time that differently as a selling club? How do you get it 'done'?

What do you know of the plans to spend the money? I would suggest you don't have any idea about that but just because you don't doesn't mean there is no plan. Beyond that the coach will obviously have known about every stage of all of this and would have been expecting it. Also, given we are clearly building a young side I don't think pinning our hopes on 'win now so we keep Kane' will fly anymore. If he's not on board for the 3-5 year project then it seems pointless having him here to destabilise the coming season.

We hear all this crap about 'brinksmanship' and 'penny-pinching' etc but the reality at our club is we have spent loads of money and we have done it quite badly. We judge signings WAY too quickly here but we can clearly say from 2019-2021 we wasted pretty much all of our budget and we added to our rebuild task because of it.

Kane can't go on forever, he has been here 10 years and for all anybody knows he would never have stayed whether he had won a couple of League Cups or not. We were lucky to have him as long as we did and now we have a decent amount to continue building up a young side with. I've seen it all before, we have to dust off and go again and the direction of travel seems overall positive.

It’s brinkmanship in that we never have a settled team going into a new season - we’re always waiting until the last week of the window to get better deals and that puts us on the back foot straight away. It would just be nice to start a season with a settled side and give ourselves the best chance of doing well.

I have no more idea about spending the money than anyone else but history would suggest that we won’t spend it well. They surely must have had a contingency budget in mind whereby Kane was sold and therefore we could then afford the players we want/need to improve the table - the likes of Tapsoba etc. The coming days will tell us whether we intend to spend that money and whether we’ll spend it in the best way but there’s not much evidence of a plan right now, is there?

I am looking forward to this season under Ange but things like this suck the enthusiasm out of you

 

[Russ1201]

The thing that saddens me is Levy won't even try to reinvest and try to appease the fans. He doesn't care as he knows we will still buy merchandise and go to matches.
He also have music concerts, american football? Rugby etc.

 

[quackers]

Its a sad day, boy from Chingford, Ridgeway Rovers, Best English 9/10 of his generation, Club and England record goalscorer, England captain and Levy is selling him to the Germans.


Well done Daniel (COYS), well played.

 

[glacierSpurs]

It’s still weird to me that no one but Bayern came in for England’s record goal scorer, World Cup golden boot, three time premier league golden boot, and previous premier league playmaker of the year winner. It must bug the fuck out of him, too.

He has his beloved agent/bro to thank for.

 

[thePessimist]

where does the Fati and Schuurs talk come from?

 

[PLTuck]

Flitting between

and

 

[felmani26]

Wonder what's peoples preferences would be;
Orban, Fati and Silva/Tapsoba
or
Muani and Schurrs/Tosin

 

[Jaddas]

Carrick, Berbatov, Modric, Bale, Walker & Eriksen - all top players left due to our lack of on-field ambition. Now potentially add Kane to the list. None of these were adequately replaced at the time, and instead the club took cheaper punts hoping to discover the next top player. What will Levy do this time?

Really he should use the Kane money plus the £50m drawn down last year and buy a couple of top players (and a couple of youngsters) which will strengthen the weak areas. However, we know how this plays out. He'll buy a couple of punts and we'll have a net spend of around £50m at the end of the window when all around us will be double, triple or even quadruple that.

p.s. losing those top players hurt a lot, but this will hurt even more as it was avoidable.

 

[Albertbarich]

With Kane, Lloris and likely Holjberg off the books we should be in a position to go big on some recruits as our wage bill must be incredibly low for a club of our size.

I'd like four players in - a young striker, a top winger who primarily can play on either side, a young midfielder and a very very good centre back.

Yes we have a huge squad but if Levy gets his arse in gear we should lose 10 odd players over the next week or so.

 

[Spursberg]

Stop screaming about effing Orban!!

we are selling the best striker in world football and people rave about a player taping in goals in the Belgian league to come save us!!! Man this is a shitty day!!

 

[RuskyM]

The thing that saddens me is Levy won't even try to reinvest and try to appease the fans. He doesn't care as he knows we will still buy merchandise and go to matches.
He also have music concerts, american football? Rugby etc.

Since the final we’ve spent the fifth most out of any club in the world. Net spend, only United and Arsenal above us. People can either say we’ll waste the money or we’ll not spend it, but they can’t say both.