It isn't enough to claim I did something. Show evidence. You claimed contradiction where none existed. Feel free to show what my strawman argument was. Just because I beat down your points easily doesn't mean I constructed them.
Yup, and him not showing up increases the pressure on the club...EXACTLY THE REASON HE IS DOING IT. And then when he's does show up and plays half-assed the pressure increases further. And then when the one-man team becomes the shitty one-half-assed--player team it increases further. If this wasn't so then most of your legacy fans wouldn't be throwing your toys out the pram right now. Fact!
Sure he has. Player said in May he wanted out. Season starts next week. Legacy fans who lived in denial are going nuts because player doesn't show up. Too long. Simple. So now your boy DL will have lost the best player and best manager we've had in their time because of poor management.
And was punished and forced to stay even after doing all of that. How'd that go for us Guids?
Remind me all you'd like but you'd better remind yourself first. It went on for 6 months because Liverpool pissed off Soton. The deal happened in January didn't it?
Lots of nonsense in here. We've had 5 years to 'rebuild' and you out here not wanting rebuild anyway. Dele must stay right? He's gonna come good. Now you're just negotiating your grief. Acceptance will be soon my friend.
But you weren't saying all this until he didn't show up which leads me to question your actual comfort with him going. Me? I'm tots comfortable with it...and would be elated if he carried Dele and all the other dross he's been carrying with him for the last few years out the door too.
Kane not showing up to training doesn't put Tottenham under any pressure whatsoever. Just look at the reaction from fans and non-fans, most saying it doesn't look good on Kane. That's pressure now on Kane, pressure that he's put on himself. Our position is unchanged, it's clear - "he's not for sale" (whilst this line is jotted out for many players that are sold eventually, the point is genuine, in that it translates into pay up or shut up). Kane not turning up to training doesn't mean we will accept 60% of his value.
Yes, he's fucking with the start to our season but Nuno and the club are just going to have to navigate this as Poch did playing away from home for nearly two years.
But WE ARE NOT UNDER ANY PRESSURE TO SELL HIM BECAUSE HE HAS THREE YEARS LEFT ON HIS CONTRACT. He's fucked himself here.
The tables are turned however when a players contract gets into its last 18months or so but we are 18 months away from this!!
If you have a world-class player on your books you keep hold of him because he improves your team (my only concern with him is whether his lack of ability to press anymore makes us a bit shit in how we play). Clubs make a decision, especially players of his age, on do we sell or keep because you choose deliberately not to sell him and you let him go for free in three years time (there have been a number of examples in the last couple of years where this has happened) or you sell. If you sell then you get top $. We haven't been offered top $ so he stays.
We were only a one-man team last couple of seasons because we had a fucking dinosaur in coaching it. A dinosaur that has never bothered even once to focus on how his teams attack, who leaves it up to them to figure it out, with all the focus and attention is spent on drills without the ball and on the oppo strengths and how to negate them. Under a different manager, this should be different (I don't know enough about Nuno to be comfortable, however. I am confident that he will be better than the dinosaur).
LFC didn't play Coutinho every game, or perhaps more accurately he was often a substitute or was substituted, this is because I don't think he was a Klopp type player (not an aggressive counter presser), I think he was more than happy for him to be sold because of this, at the same time they made out "he's not for sale" so they can demand the highest possible fee!! They mugged off Barca brilliantly, if we are to sell Kane then we too should mug off whoever that club is too. If it's City we should absolutely fuck them, not roll over and have us sell a player for 60% of his value.
Yes, Kane wants out, I've not said otherwise. But we've not had a bid come in that would facilitate his sale. It's as simple as that. AGAIN, we are NOT under any pressure to sell, we don't have to sell. We will sell if we receive a bid that is big enough for us to accept. Please, please let me negotiate the purchase of your house, I've got a deal for you.
Please stop going on about Dele, he's nothing to do with this! Yes, you think he's shit and yes I disagree with you on that. So fucking what??t!!! BORING!
I don't like players fucking with my Club. Not turning up to train, going on strike, going to the press about leaving is fucking with my Club. Whilst it's part of football, which I accept, there is a difference in how Erisksen left and Kane is going about it for example. Eriksen didn't sign a new contract, Kane did. Eriksen turned up to training, Kane isn't. Eriksen didn't go to the press, Kane did. It meant he was always available for selection, there was little distraction and speculation surrounding him, which in sport for all the marginal gains that clubs search to achieve is what I mean about fucking with the Club.
The pressure is not on Spurs. That's what a 3yr contract gives you.