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Ex-Spurs Player Harry Kane

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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.
So you dont think city Chelsea and PSG are a cancer in football that needs to be cut out. You think that these clubs with there dreadful owners are good for football and not just the plastics that support these clubs.
You sure your spurs?
 
Can someone explain to me why Son has signed a new contract with such an unambitious club...

Money? Maybe he also likes the idea of being the top man at the club once Kane is no longer here. Or maybe he just lacks ambition and isn't too bothered about titles and trophies. He's certainly at the right club if it's the latter.

What does show a lack of ambition is not signing top players we need all so many positions. Appointing a manager that was just sacked by his club after a shambles of a season. If he wasn't appointed next in line would have been the Roy Hodgson's of the world. Or not getting rid of all the average players that remain at the club, even if you have to settle for less than what you would ideally lack.
 
I wonder if the next part of Charlie's strategy is to use the "Harry is not in the right frame of mind to return to training and for the sake of his mental health it's best he stays at home" angle :kanehand:

Lots of sympathy atm for sports people taking a step back to protect their mental health
There's rightly a lot of sympathy when it's valid.

If they start that angle for Kane though then it's only gonna drop his stock further. This is nothing to do with mental health and to play that card would be disgusting.

For that reason, I can't see it going there.
 
I understand why he wants a move and frankly I wouldn't be upset with him if he did push pretty hard behind the scenes to get a move.

That said, not showing up for training and citing a "gentleman's agreement" is weak stuff. Having an agreement with Levy does not mean he gets to leave for free. If City want him, they need to pay up. If they don't, then he doesn't get to go. It's really that simple, as it has been all summer.

For Harry not to show up for training, it does lower my opinion of him as a person honestly. His legacy here will always be what it is and he's still a great player, but holding out like this is a new layer to him I didn't think was there.
 
Well the one thing it might do is convince decent strikers to come, if we have the money to buy them. Not Ings please.

We need stability, enough quality and fully committed players.

Kane will quickly be forgotten if we are half decent.

My only hope is that Kane fails to win anything once he leaves. If not us then no one.
 
I understand why he wants a move and frankly I wouldn't be upset with him if he did push pretty hard behind the scenes to get a move.

That said, not showing up for training and citing a "gentleman's agreement" is weak stuff. Having an agreement with Levy does not mean he gets to leave for free. If City want him, they need to pay up. If they don't, then he doesn't get to go. It's really that simple, as it has been all summer.

For Harry not to show up for training, it does lower my opinion of him as a person honestly. His legacy here will always be what it is and he's still a great player, but holding out like this is a new layer to him I didn't think was there.

Levy is a cunted little cretin. Best thing Harry could do for the club when they next have a meeting is to chin the little cock-womble.
 
Can someone explain to me why Son has signed a new contract with such an unambitious club...
Again: when someone shows you who they are, believe them.

We have one world-class player who adores this club and its fans, who wants to be wedded to it, who wants his legacy to be victory with Spurs, who’ll risk everything to make it happen. And it ain’t the Englishman who arrived here as an 11-year-old.

Son: one of our own.
 
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