Transfers Summer Transfer Thread 2023! - Closed (Maybe)

[TeamSpirit™]

LOL at Spurs fans still clinging onto the fantasy that Kane signs a new deal.

He intends to leave on a free next year. We must sell him this window.

This club sold Modric and Bale in back2back years and eventually recovered.

Harry Kane isn’t bigger than Spurs but to many people (including the club management) are perpetuating that belief, it’s making me sick.

Madrid sold CR7 and have still won another CL since.

Barca had to let Messi go (after getting worse and worse the more Messi-centric they became) and have won La Liga again.

Properly constructed TEAMS have success, not catering to one individual.

What’s more important here, seeing Harry Kane turn out for Spurs, or building a successful team? Because the way I see it, with him not committing, the two do not match up at all.

 

[Brian Fantana]

Sounds like Chelsea need to offload players by the end of this month according to this. Maybe that's why Gallagher is being pushed our way. Good news if it means it wont get dragged on all summer if it is true.

 

[Zomb]

LOL at Spurs fans still clinging onto the fantasy that Kane signs a new deal.

He intends to leave on a free next year. We must sell him this window.

This club sold Modric and Bale in back2back years and eventually recovered.

Harry Kane isn’t bigger than Spurs but to many people (including the club management) are perpetuating that belief, it’s making me sick.

Madrid sold CR7 and have still won another CL since.

Barca had to let Messi go (after getting worse and worse the more Messi-centric they became) and have won La Liga again.

Properly constructed TEAMS have success, not catering to one individual.

What’s more important here, seeing Harry Kane turn out for Spurs, or building a successful team? Because the way I see it, with him not committing, the two do not match up at all.

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What if there are no buyers? What if he doesn’t want to go? What it if the best offer is 50M?

If we have 100M on the table from Real I agree

If we have 40M from Chelsea I disagree

 

[Deuterz]

What if there are no buyers? What if he doesn’t want to go? What it if the best offer is 50M?

If we have 100M on the table from Real I agree

If we have 40M from Chelsea I disagree

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He's leaving on a free next summer.

I hate to basically be Kosher Kid with the 'it's brendan rodgers' thing, but this is what is happening. Nobody is paying the ridiculous fees Levy will demand for a player with one year left, and Kane isn't committing his final years to Spurs and risking retiring with no silverware.

He's giving us one final year, enjoy it.

 

[Zomb]

He's leaving on a free next summer.

I hate to basically be Kosher Kid with the 'it's brendan rodgers' thing, but this is what is happening. Nobody is paying the ridiculous fees Levy will demand for a player with one year left, and Kane isn't committing his final years to Spurs and risking retiring with no silverware.

He's giving us one final year, enjoy it.

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Agree. Why would Kane go now? He can pocket the £50M-£100M transfer fee for himself next year

 

[TeamSpirit™]

What if there are no buyers? What if he doesn’t want to go? What it if the best offer is 50M?

If we have 100M on the table from Real I agree

If we have 40M from Chelsea I disagree

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He’s Harry Kane. There will be buyers.

Bayern, PSG, Madrid, we should be touting him to all three.

I’m taking £50mil right now because we’re not getting back into CL next season and, do you think we can win a domestic cup with him leading us? Be honest, we’ve had nearly a decade of evidence.

More importantly we’ve hire a manager who wants to implement pressing football and Kane is at that stage of his career where he can’t do it consistently. Conte was his last shot.

Hiring Ange means embracing a rebuild and a clearout, for the good of all parties he must go. It’s not his fault but a consequence of how badly the squad has been mismanaged over the past 5 years. Him leaving on a free AND staying in England would be criminal behaviour on the part of the club.

 

[Richard Arlison]

He’s Harry Kane. There will be buyers.

Bayern, PSG, Madrid, we should be touting him to all three.

I’m taking £50mil right now because we’re not getting back into CL next season and, do you think we can win a domestic cup with him leading us? Be honest, we’ve had nearly a decade of evidence.

More importantly we’ve hire a manager who wants to implement pressing football and Kane is at that stage of his career where he can’t do it consistently. Conte was his last shot.

Hiring Ange means embracing a rebuild and a clearout, for the good of all parties he must go. It’s not his fault but a consequence of how badly the squad has been mismanaged over the past 5 years. Him leaving on a free AND staying in England would be criminal behaviour on the part of the club.

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Definitely not taking 50m.

Have said all along we should sell if he won't sign.

Not for 50m though.

That doesn't get you shit in this market. A season of Kane is worth more than any player you can buy for 50m.

 

[The Absolute GOAT]

How you got one X for that post?! Some folks on here

If he leaves this summer and we get say 100mil for him, that's still a big loss...they say nobody is irreplaceable, but Harry sure is as close to it as it gets.

But if he leaves next summer and we therefore don't get zilch for him? Man that'd be baaaaaaad indeed. Still got that huge Harry-shaped hole on the pitch and now you're missing out on a big cheque, without mentioning what it'd do to the club from a reputation perspective.

That dude who disagreed (without providing an explanation) would probably say Mbappe leaving PSG on a free ain't a big deal...

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You're in no position to criticise anyone on here, tbf. The amount of absolute arse wind you post sometimes.

 

[The Absolute GOAT]

Sounds like Chelsea need to offload players by the end of this month according to this. Maybe that's why Gallagher is being pushed our way. Good news if it means it wont get dragged on all summer if it is true.

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Clubs would be stupid not to push Chelsea to the wire on transfers.

 

[MVP]

If Kane pulled a Sol next season, boyyyyy.

 

[Richard Arlison]

Sounds like Chelsea need to offload players by the end of this month according to this. Maybe that's why Gallagher is being pushed our way. Good news if it means it wont get dragged on all summer if it is true.

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Situation of their own making.

Long summer, no need to help them out unless they get desperate and offer for peanuts.

 

[Deuterz]

He’s Harry Kane. There will be buyers.

Bayern, PSG, Madrid, we should be touting him to all three.

I’m taking £50mil right now because we’re not getting back into CL next season and, do you think we can win a domestic cup with him leading us? Be honest, we’ve had nearly a decade of evidence.

More importantly we’ve hire a manager who wants to implement pressing football and Kane is at that stage of his career where he can’t do it consistently. Conte was his last shot.

Hiring Ange means embracing a rebuild and a clearout, for the good of all parties he must go. It’s not his fault but a consequence of how badly the squad has been mismanaged over the past 5 years. Him leaving on a free AND staying in England would be criminal behaviour on the part of the club.

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I think we could get 70-80m. But genuinely don't even think Levy would accept 100, so it just isn't happening at all.

Agree with the logic - the rebuild is on, we may as well bite the bloody bullet and get some cash to replace him. Putting off the inevitable for one final season is pointless. Our entire budget the next window will be spent poorly replacing him.

Or, worse still, giving fucking Richarlison the gig..

 

[Matt1882]

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Lol at West Ham now being more active in the market than us. We're more Mickey Mouse than Disneyland.

COVID

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I could see Levy trying to use that excuse as if it didn't hurt everyone, yet they seem to have moved on.
And all his bots on here make up a way to prove he's right.

LOL at Spurs fans still clinging onto the fantasy that Kane signs a new deal.

He intends to leave on a free next year. We must sell him this window.

This club sold Modric and Bale in back2back years and eventually recovered.

Harry Kane isn’t bigger than Spurs but to many people (including the club management) are perpetuating that belief, it’s making me sick.

Madrid sold CR7 and have still won another CL since.

Barca had to let Messi go (after getting worse and worse the more Messi-centric they became) and have won La Liga again.

Properly constructed TEAMS have success, not catering to one individual.

What’s more important here, seeing Harry Kane turn out for Spurs, or building a successful team? Because the way I see it, with him not committing, the two do not match up at all.

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I don't even know where to begin with this because almost every paragraph swings from agree to disagree.

I'll try.
Agree that if a big offer comes we should sell.
Disagree with taking £50m which is nothing.
He isn't going abroad. No chance.
Agree that it's worse to lose him on a free, but the damage is more in that he will sign for a Premier league team.
He currently is not only bigger than Spurs, but so much so that we will be in huge trouble when he leaves. You can slap your chest and act as though no player is bigger than a club but they are. And quite often, when that player leaves there is a massive drop off.

You cite Ronaldo leaving Madrid. They still have/had an absolute fucking armory there. Benzema, Modric, Vinicous etc etc etc. Kane leaves Spurs and we are bang average. He alone has kept us "up there" for 3-4 years. Even though he's just had an exceptional season, we were dogshit. Imagine that team without the 30 goals. Its relegation fodder.

If I was senior management, I'd be talking to Kane about a new contract. I'd be coming up with persuasions as well as useful clauses. Clauses like;
Once he has broken Shearers record he automatically invokes a release fee
Once 2 years pass, there is a 1 month window whereby he has a release clause
Should a foreign team show an interest it will be sanctioned (even though he probably wouldn't go)

In terms of persuading him, we need to focus on the fact his only guarantee of a trophy with a premier league team is City and City don't need him. Fuck United, they have won 1 poxy league cup in 6? Years. That is not worth leaving the club you love for anymore. It would be a dumb move.
Who else can actually afford him? Liverpool? Doubt he fits a Klopp team. Chelsea? Not convinced those channels are open still.
Arse. Lol.

I don't believe a new contract is totally off the cards. I do believe he'll wait until next summer to be in the strongest position.

 

[Airfixx]

Sounds like Chelsea need to offload players by the end of this month according to this. Maybe that's why Gallagher is being pushed our way. Good news if it means it wont get dragged on all summer if it is true.

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Situation of their own making.

Long summer, no need to help them out unless they get desperate and offer for peanuts.

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If clubs were smart, they'd conspire between themselves to not buy any of chav players until after the June deadline and see the chavs get busted over FFP.

You could still bust their balls for a good deal even after that.

Everybody knows they need to make room for any new players they wish to buy and that they are hamstrung until they do.

 

[Ashton]

LOL at Spurs fans still clinging onto the fantasy that Kane signs a new deal.

He intends to leave on a free next year. We must sell him this window.

This club sold Modric and Bale in back2back years and eventually recovered.

Harry Kane isn’t bigger than Spurs but to many people (including the club management) are perpetuating that belief, it’s making me sick.

Madrid sold CR7 and have still won another CL since.

Barca had to let Messi go (after getting worse and worse the more Messi-centric they became) and have won La Liga again.

Properly constructed TEAMS have success, not catering to one individual.

What’s more important here, seeing Harry Kane turn out for Spurs, or building a successful team? Because the way I see it, with him not committing, the two do not match up at all.

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You're not taking into the account the effect of losing Kane would have on other players in our side. Do you think the better ones, the likes of Son and Bentancur, aren't going to become disillusioned? You don't look to actively move on your best player, and one of the best strikers in the world, if you are genuinely looking to build a successful team anytime soon.

 

[Deuterz]

You're not taking into the account the effect of losing Kane would have on other players in our side. Do you think the better ones, the likes of Son and Bentancur, aren't going to become disillusioned? You don't look to actively move on your best player, and one of the best strikers in the world, if you are genuinely looking to build a successful team anytime soon.

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You don't lose your star player on a free either.

 

[TeamSpirit™]

I think we could get 70-80m. But genuinely don't even think Levy would accept 100, so it just isn't happening at all.

Agree with the logic - the rebuild is on, we may as well bite the bloody bullet and get some cash to replace him. Putting off the inevitable for one final season is pointless. Our entire budget the next window will be spent poorly replacing him.

Or, worse still, giving fucking Richarlison the gig..

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I say we don’t even bother trying to replace him 1 for 1, it never works. Lamela couldn’t replace Bale and it took Dembele 3 years to give us anything like what Modric was doing.

Strengthen the weak points of the team, GK, CB’s, raise the technical levels in midfield.

Shift Sonny upfront and have him share duties with Richarlison for now. Sonny is still devastating playing off the last shoulder and whilst Richarlison is limited, he’s still a great presser and can be productive with enough creators behind him (see Brazil). Not an ideal scenario but we can’t realistically fix it straight away.

In the meantime , aim to Develop Dane Scarlett and Jamie Donley whilst simultaneously scouring the globe for a young CF who fits the profile Ange desires.

The next 12-18 months will be painful but if done right the club can come out the other side.

 

[MVP]

If Levy hasn't learned anything from the Judas episode, he is stupid.

 

[Airfixx]

He’s Harry Kane. There will be buyers.

Bayern, PSG, Madrid, we should be touting him to all three.

I’m taking £50mil right now because we’re not getting back into CL next season and, do you think we can win a domestic cup with him leading us? Be honest, we’ve had nearly a decade of evidence.

More importantly we’ve hire a manager who wants to implement pressing football and Kane is at that stage of his career where he can’t do it consistently. Conte was his last shot.

Hiring Ange means embracing a rebuild and a clearout, for the good of all parties he must go. It’s not his fault but a consequence of how badly the squad has been mismanaged over the past 5 years. Him leaving on a free AND staying in England would be criminal behaviour on the part of the club.

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50m ain't shit.

Noticably none of the noise is about Kane agitating for a move anyway; so if he is content to ride his deal down there's nothing we can do about that anyway.

 

[Ashton]

You don't lose your star player on a free either.

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I'd rather sell him for big money than lose him for nowt next summer. But it can't be under-stated what a massive loss he would be not just for his goals or ability, but for the players we currently have in the squad and also for any players we're looking to sign. It's not like none of our transfer targets wouldn't notice you just got rid of your best player.

A rebuild will be easier with Kane in it than not.