Harry Kane

[ohtottenham!]

Nope, read the conversation again the post I was replying to.

It's in regards to timing not whether it was direct or not...

I read it. The timing's the sole issue for you?

 

[sundanceyid10]

Yeah. That makes sense tbf. We need some stability I guess. But we all know winks and Dier will still be here next season.

Lamela has been pretty average at best, the good spell here and there but he is hardly someone to rely on. Eriksen was quality, towards then end less so but there are reasons for that I guess. The Bale spending was pretty awful.

 

[PLTuck]

Was just trying to understand your point.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that all those signings made sense at the time. Were they earth shattering? No. But I heard no one complaining about any of them when we signed them.

To bitch and moan about recruiting them now, after a shithole of a season for everyone quite frankly, is disingenuous.

 

[Mornstar]

I'm just so gutted we didn't give him a proper farewell today. A guard of honour or a banner flown over the stadium (best one in the world remember) at half time would've been great

 

[gibbospurs]

Lamela has been pretty average at best, the good spell here and there but he is hardly someone to rely on. Eriksen was quality, towards then end less so but there are reasons for that I guess. The Bale spending was pretty awful.

The problem is we wont get 150m for Kane which we all think he’s worth. So we either sell for 90m ish or he stays another year. How many decent players can you pick up for 90m these days?

 

[Blackcanary]

we're in for a nightmare anyway. what are you worried about if Kane leaves - not finishing 8th again? I know that may sound snarky but that's how good we are with Harry Kane.

Cast your mind back to the chaotic disaster that was the post-Bale season. Absolutely nothing functioned in that team because, previously, everything had been set up solely to run through him. He scored ALL the goals. The team was his platform. AVB was frantically trying to integrate all those new signings now that Bale had left but he didn't have anything to fall back on the meantime to provide him with cover and give him time because his team had lost the part that fundamentally made it work.

The situation now isn't quite as dire, because we have players like Son, or even Bale v2.0 who can also score goals. But Kane now fulfils that Bale-esque role in the team where he's the lynchpin that makes everything run. The victory against Soton the other week felt major because we actually found a way to win without him.

I feel like, in the transitional season we're probably about to have, you need to keep Kane to be the working fundamental in the system. He fed off scraps under Mourinho to have one of his most productive seasons. He's a goal-scoring machine that will provide the time and cover for a changing side that we will need.

 

[M.I.B.]

I remember when we got rid of Jimmy Greaves. Uproar. Some of us actually forsake Spurs and followed him to the other side (I was 9 FFS!!!)
It all came good again. Eventually!!

 

[Johnny J]

I'm just so gutted we didn't give him a proper farewell today. A guard of honour or a banner flown over the stadium (best one in the world remember) at half time would've been great

This post is amazing, I honestly can't tell if you're being serious or not.

For what it's worth, I think a massive fireworks display starting immediately on the full-time whistle would have capped the evening off nicely.

 

[Cornpattbuck]

Fuck this season.

 

[Amo]

I’m amazed people have such confidence we will invest any money well. I’m not confident at all looking at the disaster decision making that’s going on at the top in recent times.

Well no but we'll be shit regardless so at least there's a miniscule chance we will spend it well and actually progress. Otherwise we just stand still at best or regress anyway.

At least there's the possibility of getting a top CB, RB and CM. That alone pads out our critical weaknesses and it leaves us with a missing striker which we'd have to adapt to.

Keep Kane and what do we have? We spent 100m twice on a bunch of Tier 2 signings and might end up finishing 10th or something.

 

[Mornstar]

This post is amazing, I honestly can't tell if you're being serious or not.

For what it's worth, I think some fireworks would have capped the evening off nicely.

As if I'd ever be non serious on an Internet forum

 

[gibbospurs]

Bollocks to it.... if he’s going then he’s going. Let’s sign a striker that stays up top and scores and a midfielder that creates like Eriksen use to. Play skipp as the holding. Our striker shouldn’t need to do it all.

 

[sundanceyid10]

It matters because you said you had no trust in the hierarchy to invest wisely, and evidenced that viewpoint with....nothing.

I'm trying to have a discussion about it with you, but whatever dude.

What evidence do you want, we have a team filled with mediocre players everywhere and you are surprised I have no trust in the recruitment people. Fine you are full of confidence good luck with that, the current state of affairs shows they select average players, the performances are average, the list of players you put up are average. It’s a celebration of mediocrity.

The wheel turns we remain average.

 

[fortworthspur]

Cast your mind back to the chaotic disaster that was the post-Bale season. Absolutely nothing functioned in that team because, previously, everything had been set up solely to run through him. He scored ALL the goals. The team was his platform. AVB was frantically trying to integrate all those new signings now that Bale had left but he didn't have anything to fall back on the meantime to provide him with cover and give him time because his team had lost the part that fundamentally made it work.

The situation now isn't quite as dire, because we have players like Son, or even Bale v2.0 who can also score goals. But Kane now fulfils that Bale-esque role in the team where he's the lynchpin that makes everything run. The victory against Soton the other week felt major because we actually found a way to win without him.

I feel like, in the transitional season we're probably about to have, you need to keep Kane to be the working fundamental in the system. He fed off scraps under Mourinho to have one of his most productive seasons. He's a goal-scoring machine that will provide the time and cover for a changing side that we will need.

that season after Bale we finished 6th. With Kane, Son and Bale already here it will take a miracle to equal that. Its really hard to argue that this season has been less chaotic than 2013-14. There's more chaos coming either way.

 

[fortworthspur]

plus, he's going. If someone comes in with the right amount Levy will sell.

 

[Donki]

I guess what I'm trying to say is that all those signings made sense at the time. Were they earth shattering? No. But I heard no one complaining about any of them when we signed them.

To bitch and moan about recruiting them now, after a shithole of a season for everyone quite frankly, is disingenuous.

We are fans, we are not scouts, we are not educated in the scouting game no mater how we think we should be. Of fucking course we arent going to bitch and moan, we are hear to support, the club has trained staff staff to do this job. If the club get it wrong its on them, not us.

 

[Rubespur]

Bollocks to it.... if he’s going then he’s going. Let’s sign a striker that stays up top and scores and a midfielder that creates like Eriksen use to. Play skipp as the holding. Our striker shouldn’t need to do it all.

This all day for me, IMHO. If we lose Kane, we lose our #10 and #9. I keep thinking about Bruno Fernandes at United and Eriksen in his prime for us. The critical aspect of those teams wasn't the striker (of course Kane was banging everything in but as we saw with Eriksen's play, Dele was thriving as well), but the playmaker behind the striker. I don't seek United having phenomenal strikers like we do in Kane, but they create opportunities for strikers to take advantage of. A proper number 10 who has a vision of play is what we need.

I'm so glad this year is nearly over.

 

[sundanceyid10]

We are fans, we are not scouts, we are not educated in the scouting game no mater how we think we should be. Of fucking course we arent going to bitch and moan, we are hear to support, the club has trained staff staff to do this job.

Exactly that is there job, they are supposed to be trained in identifying talent. They have identified average players, results have shown that, so it is perfectly valid to question those that are making those decisions. And someone bringing up fan excitement over a signing or hindsight is totally irrelevant. Asking for evidence while at the same witnessing the absolute shitshow of players barely trying FFS

 

[SE Spurs]

Can't sell him this summer imo. Just no way we can sell 30+ goals next season. Not in the state this club's in.

I don't really care what Harry wants tbh. If he's upset for a few weeks I'm ok with that. But I'm not ok watching the club fall further and further down the league.

One more season, with perhaps some magician of a manager Levy's plucked out his arse, that may at least see us back on the right path before he leaves and gets himself some trophies.

 

[faze_coys]

We should sell him and start to accept we are not a top club and will never be.

Reinvest the funds in players-who will help us fight for top 4/6 and repeat the cycle whist not being able to build a squad that can win a cup, and hope we don’t drop to fighting arsenal for a top half spot.

we are done as an investment vehicle.