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Ex-Spurs Player Harry Kane

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Team Tanguy said:
In reality he had to do something, just like Modric and Berba did when they wanted to leave.
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I just don't think playing televised celebrity golf with wanker Neville and having his ripe-faced tit-head of a brother spaff rumours to the gutter press helped his cause.

Great player but I think he's fundamentally a pretty cold fish. Keep scoring the goals, H, but I'll always feel more joy when Sonny nets one.
 
NDomBadBoy said:
You're jumping into a discussion where you act like you know why Son is being brought up.

The question is whether Kane is a flat track bully.

If you would have been following, you would've seen the narrative being spewed around here that "Kane plays with shitty teammates hence can't score against good/top opposition."

Son's performance against top opposition completely debunks that narrative along with almost every other false narrative overrating Kane.
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Is that why you have wasted years of your life? Over a strawman?

Even if you are right, which I am not saying you are, why this daily obsession? It must consume you.
 
Raiders said:
Is that why you have wasted years of your life? Over a strawman?

Even if you are right, which I am not saying you are, why this daily obsession? It must consume you.
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Take a look at almost every other player thread. There are similar discussions being had by a handful of people. Just take a look at the Ndombele and Dele thread.

And it works both ways mate. There are passionate fans on both sides of this discussion around Kane. People in here have been posting the same Harry Kane goal tally chart/list for years.

People are just sensitive when it comes to Kane and get irked.
 
Nuts said:
I just don't think playing televised celebrity golf with wanker Neville and having his ripe-faced tit-head of a brother spaff rumours to the gutter press helped his cause.

Great player but I think he's fundamentally a pretty cold fish. Keep scoring the goals, H, but I'll always feel more joy when Sonny nets one.
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It's all part of the game and shouldn't be taken personally.

What should/could he have done which would have helped him get the move?

Knuckle down and get on with it is unfair as he's already done that and then some.
 
Team Tanguy said:
Quite late to the discussion but I don't harbour any ill feelings towards Kane. I'd even say I think many fans are/were being unfair.

Nearly everyone agreed that he had earned the right to move away, the issue for some was the way he went about it.

I can't say I blame him though. In reality he had to do something, just like Modric and Berba did when they wanted to leave. Doing it all behind closed doors wouldn't work, it's like telling protesters to not cause a nuisance and thus totally defeat the purpose of it all.

Kane's level is challenging for the league/CL. We're miles away from that and made no effort to get close to being able to do so. The club know this. So the right thing to do would have been to let him go. Why should our lack of ambition stop him? Keeping him is unfair. I feel it was Levy's ego and wanting to keep a star player to help justify the absurd prices for midtable and ECL football.

Saying Kane shouldn't have signed such a big deal is also a bit disingenuous. He signed it because he acted like a fan (stupidly) and put faith in the project, at the time he signed it he most certainly could have gone anywhere. Yes it was dumb but let's not mock him for being loyal then if we're also going to claim he's being disloyal now.

The gentleman's agreement was indeed silly, and I laughed at the pisstake memes too. But in reality it's a promise that was broken. That's not cool. Charlie is a cringey prat though.

To those who say Kane owes us since we made him- just no. He more than paid us back. And don't forget it works both ways, if Kane wasn't any good he'd get turfed.

Kane's been DESPERATE to win things with us and remained wholly consistent in saying he wanted to stay so long as the club show ambition aka surround him with players closer to his level.
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You're not allowed to talk that much sense in this thread.

You're only allowed to discuss what clubs Harry scores against, how many shots he has on average per game, and how he's only on a par with the likes of Shane Long.
 
Team Tanguy said:
It's all part of the game and shouldn't be taken personally.

What should/could he have done which would have helped him get the move?

Knuckle down and get on with it is unfair as he's already done that and then some.
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....But that's his JOB. Why is it "unfair"?

Refusing to turn up for training isn't "part of the game".

He signed a 6 year deal without a release clause and wasn't prepared to hand in an official transfer request cos he wanted to have his cake and eat it too. Wouldn't come out publicly and be honest with the fans; again cos he wanted to have his cake and eat it.
 
Airfixx said:
....But that's his JOB. Why is it "unfair"?

Refusing to turn up for training isn't "part of the game".

He signed a 6 year deal without a release clause and wasn't prepared to hand in an official transfer request cos he wanted to have his cake and eat it too. Wouldn't come out publicly and be honest with the fans; again cos he wanted to have his cake and eat it.
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Kane's level is far higher than the level the club currently are at. Kane has done a lot for this club, for a long time. He could have left with blessings years ago.
He signed that contract in good faith cos he had belief in the project.

The club did fuck all whilst the iron was hot. It's unfair to keep Kane.

Technically we can keep him to his contract.
Doesn't mean that it's right.


Refusing to turn up for training is part of the game.
 
Team Tanguy said:
Kane's level is far higher than the level the club currently are at. Kane has done a lot for this club, for a long time. He could have left with blessings years ago.
He signed that contract in good faith cos he had belief in the project.

The club did fuck all whilst the iron was hot. It's unfair to keep Kane.

Technically we can keep him to his contract.
Doesn't mean that it's right.


Refusing to turn up for training is part of the game.
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It's only unfair if the club received an offer which was fair to his value. The reality is he was a player with 3 years left who grabbed both the golden boot and top playmaker award, is a big English homegrown talent, and City only have Jesus. The club had every right to pursue a fair fee.

If, as reports state, they only offered 75m+ add ons, then turning it down was correct. You can't pay 100 million for Grealish who wasn't even a starter for England and hasn't been half as good as Kane over the years, and then expect Spurs to not want more for Kane. Especially when Villa would have rejected that 100 if it wasn't a release clause.

We should certainly have been open to him leaving the club. Kane was well compensated with big wages and signed the contract by his own free will, he isn't a prisoner. Now if Levy received big offers but wasn't negotiating, that's on him. But we don't know that. No confirmed reports of a fair City bid were reported at all.
 
Raumdeuterz said:
It's only unfair if the club received an offer which was fair to his value. The reality is he was a player with 3 years left who grabbed both the golden boot and top playmaker award, is a big English homegrown talent, and City only have Jesus. The club had every right to pursue a fair fee.

If, as reports state, they only offered 75m+ add ons, then turning it down was correct. You can't pay 100 million for Grealish who wasn't even a starter for England and hasn't been half as good as Kane over the years, and then expect Spurs to not want more for Kane. Especially when Villa would have rejected that 100 if it wasn't a release clause.

We should certainly have been open to him leaving the club. Kane was well compensated with big wages and signed the contract by his own free will, he isn't a prisoner. Now if Levy received big offers but wasn't negotiating, that's on him. But we don't know that. No confirmed reports of a fair City bid were reported at all.
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Some fair points.

Relative to his peers in football I don't think he was that well compensated at all. Plenty of players in the mid to upper 200ks, and some in the 300ks. Even years ago.

I do feel the club were reluctant to do business with City. I can't be 100% sure so maybe you're right.

But keeping Kane makes no sense. We're quite blatantly rebuilding for the future and have written off the next few seasons. I believe Levy wanted to create a distraction x us vs city siege mentality and keep a star for the sake of ticket price justification. By the time we've assembled a good squad Kane will be old af so what's the point?
 
Same old argument over and over just going in circles. What a useless joke of a thread. Too bad no one can ever have a conversation in this thread as it will be lost in the posts of the same old trolls reposting the same points again and again.

And the one idiot troll even has a post bragging about his trolling ability. Wish we had some sort of moderation on this board.

Boards gone to shit.
 
Nuts said:
As far as the interview goes, he should have waited until the season ended. I don't think what he did was fair on the team, or on Mason - who I still commend for having the guts to step in and hold the reigns - or the fans.
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CL was gone mate.

I legit don't give a shit about Europa let alone ECL. Not because we're above the EL, but because it was only a goal because of the shocking club management top to bottom which let us drop so far away from the CL.
 
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