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Ex-Spurs Player Harry Kane

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I think this.

If all reports are correct and Grealish is back with Villa as their captain and carrying on until and if such point arrives then it makes what Kane appears to be doing infinitely worse.

If true It is utterly contemptuous and for many will not and should not ever be forgotten.

For those fans who work overtime, who trek for hours, through rain and wind, who invest energy and trust in this player, it would represent the biggest act of disrespect.

No doubt in my mind if this is repeated tomorrow.
 
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tbonepremier said:
The discussion was not regarding the background of the owners of City, but about sugar daddies that invest in clubs vs capitalists who enrich themselves at the expense of supporters. I know which of the two I prefer.

PSG, Chelsea and City contribute to rising transfer fees, but those are clubs with owners that put money into football, money that trickles down (I do not belong to the economical right that believes in trickle-down-economics, but in the case of football, money that are invested at the top to buy players from the clubs below actually do trickle down). The owners of the likes of Liverpool, Man United and Woolwich, on the other hand, drains money from football. The problem for championship clubs and league one clubs is not the competition from or money from the clubs above, it is more so over-ambitious, dreamy and sloppy owners that overinvest at their level, and extremely hard competition to get to the next level (e.g. to PL from Championship or to CL from League 1).

"Everything about City is wrong" is a ridiculous statement. They do a lot of things right at City, with respect to how they run a football club. You can hate the owners, you can be jealous at the investments made, but your statement still remains ridiculous.
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Bullshit..... Fundamentally, they are a cancer to the modern game.

It's the sports-washing of a scandalous regime and it has corrupted our game in multiple ways..... They have been caught cheating twice and are currently under further investigation.

That's not jealousy talking; it's a love of the game and common decency.
 
TylerB said:
You can't just keep unhappy players around at the club. Dressing room morale and spirit counts for a hell of a lot in football.

And if we go down that route and start playing him in the under-23 side for a season then we'll be lucky to get half of what we could have got for him this summer. What sense would that make?
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I didn't say it would make sense, I said we could do it, if the contract was worthless we couldn't do that.

The only way this deal will happen is if it's mutually agreeable, if the contract was worth nothing then we'd have no say and he'd have us over a barrel.
 
Notabadsquad said:
I think this.

If all reports are correct and Grealish is bsck with Villa as their captain and carrying on until and if such point, then it makes what Kane appears to be doing infinitely worse.

If true It is utterly contemptuous and for many will not and should not ever be forgotten.

For those fans who work over time, who trek for hours, through rain and wind, who invest energy and trust in this player, it would represent the biggest act of disrespect.

No doubt in my mind if this is repeated tomorrow.
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And yet some people seem happy for him to just stay at the club if he's priced out of the move he wants. Utter madness.
 
meaningless-friendly said:
No, mostly they don't come to an end because the selling club would rather get a fee for a player than have him walk for a free when his contract has ended. In reality, a contract in football is mostly a bargaining chip for transfer fees. Players could take a chance on shorter term deals, but then it's less financial security for them, as nobody can predict if they will get a career-changing injury in the next game.

Kane wants his move, but 3 years left means City have to pay stupid money.
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I’m fine with a club spending stupid money, but the mentality that the club owes it to the player to bow down to anything they want in the middle of a contract is what I’m bitching about.
 
enfield1985 said:
The fact is them and Chelsea destroyed it in the first place. When you can put as much money into a business as possible just blows away the competition is not feasible in any other than Sport. The fact is City and Chelsea are owned by criminals and the fact our journalists do not go after them is a problem with the media in this country.
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Preach GIF
 
tbonepremier said:
The discussion was not regarding the background of the owners of City, but about sugar daddies that invest in clubs vs capitalists who enrich themselves at the expense of supporters. I know which of the two I prefer.

PSG, Chelsea and City contribute to rising transfer fees, but those are clubs with owners that put money into football, money that trickles down (I do not belong to the economical right that believes in trickle-down-economics, but in the case of football, money that are invested at the top to buy players from the clubs below actually do trickle down). The owners of the likes of Liverpool, Man United and Woolwich, on the other hand, drains money from football. The problem for championship clubs and league one clubs is not the competition from or money from the clubs above, it is more so over-ambitious, dreamy and sloppy owners that overinvest at their level, and extremely hard competition to get to the next level (e.g. to PL from Championship or to CL from League 1).

"Everything about City is wrong" is a ridiculous statement. They do a lot of things right at City, with respect to how they run a football club. You can hate the owners, you can be jealous at the investments made, but your statement still remains ridiculous.
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So the fact that their owners are human rights criminals does not matter? The fact that City is a plaything to get them access to western governments. The fact is City are a way that they avoid the Western Media reporting on what goes on in their country as we move away from our reliance for oil so it becomes more feasible to invest their looted wealth into other industries such as Green Technologies and without getting their funds frozen in foreign bank accounts. The fact is their investment funds are strongly involved in start ups in silicon valley. They are not in football for no reason. Money and greed may be the reason other owners are involved in football but I think this is a much less dangerous reason to be in football.
 
I haven't seen anything yet that proves Harry wants out, let alone forcing the issue. Just circumstantial and a warning to Levy to make a real effort to stop the rot.

Please, if I'm missing something, share the source, but if it's 'reading between the lines', then just leave the melting until he's sold.

"Believe half of what you see, nought of what you hear and actively deny anything printed on the fucking internet, you gullible pricks" - Alastair Gold. 2021-04-01 @alasdairgold
 
DTM said:
Modern technology surly means that the relevant parties have had many face to face conversations over the summer so the not meeting in the flesh is a non issue. You’re obviously pissed off when you talk about it being Spurs’ money that he’s gone to the Bahamas on and not his own dosh and those rivals really have seeped into your psyche when you say England were busy bottling. a World Cup final.... that’s usually Chelsea Woolwich talk aimed at Spurs!
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I'm pissed off because Spurs' best player is having a tantrum and trying to force a move yes, it's disrespectful imo to enjoy a luxury holiday on the back of the wages that THFC (and by extension the fans of THFC) paid him and then not even have the decency to turn up and discuss the matter in person.

We can only go off what's written in the media right now, but as far as that goes Spurs were unaware that he wasn't going to turn up today, if he'd been having zoom calls with the Management it might have been nice of him to drop that into the conversation. Also Paratici mentioned just after he'd joined that it wouldn't be right to disturb Kane whilst on England duty and he would speak to him when he returned to training, no reason to not believe that at present.

The dig about the Euros Final is petty, I won't deny that.
 
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