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Ex-Spurs Player Harry Kane

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sammyspurs said:
It’s amazing how many people “wanted him sold” now..
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I ALWAYS said it was a bad decision to force player to stay.
I also came up with various scenarios as to why it made more sense to accept less than we wanted for him now. Namely:

1) He's 28 and at the peak. His value would go down even if he played well. Which he isn't.
2) ENIC won't buy a world class striker out of their money. We won't produce another 200 goal striker from the academy so we should have sold him and used that money to buy the two 22-23 year old strikers we've needed.
3) Once his poor performances affect the results and his value plummets, we won't have anywhere near the money we need to replace him.

Levy has done the one thing he hates - not got the best deal. His stubborn greed has left him with a player who will never be worth those sums of money again and is of little value to us anymore.
 
AussieYiddo said:
He'll get the stick and people will say he didn't care but in reality he was probably the best of our starters yesterday. The fact he even had to sprint the length of the field to put that tackle in on Saka after giving the ball away, outrunning Ndombele, Dele and Hojbjerg speaks volumes.
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That was about the only worthwhile thing he did sprinting back after falling over the ball but still fucked up the tackle allowing them to score

His miss with the free header was awful not even getting it on target
 
ArcspacE said:
It's all on Levy - same with keeping Dele and Tanguy
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Levy can go, but this ones on Kane.
Thought he could walk into the City team but they rightly decided he’s not worth the money.
Bottled another final this time for England, and showed that he’s still not a big game player at 29.

The regression is real, but there’s only about 3 people on here who have the right to say now that Levy should have sold him.
 
Matt1882 said:
I ALWAYS said it was a bad decision to force player to stay.
I also came up with various scenarios as to why it made more sense to accept less than we wanted for him now. Namely:

1) He's 28 and at the peak. His value would go down even if he played well. Which he isn't.
2) ENIC won't buy a world class striker out of their money. We won't produce another 200 goal striker from the academy so we should have sold him and used that money to buy the two 22-23 year old strikers we've needed.
3) Once his poor performances affect the results and his value plummets, we won't have anywhere near the money we need to replace him.

Levy has done the one thing he hates - not got the best deal. His stubborn greed has left him with a player who will never be worth those sums of money again and is of little value to us anymore.
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Fair enough
 
sammyspurs said:
Levy can go, but this ones on Kane.
Thought he could walk into the City team but they rightly decided he’s not worth the money.
Bottled another final this time for England, and showed that he’s still not a big game player at 29.

The regression is real, but there’s only about 3 people on here who have the right to say now that Levy should have sold him.
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I would have taken even 100m
 
Another reason we should have sold is that in the current market, younger players may well have been obtainable now. In a years time, with full stadiums, clubs will want more for them.
 
TylerB said:
Not in today's market it doesn't. It gets you a few average players if you're lucky. Or two Tanguy Ndombele's if you're not.
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Average players are a step up though

I watched us yesterday and just laughed at the notion that we are somehow a big club.

We’re West Brom with a big ground.
Trying to mix it with City and Liverpool, when the likes of Leicester and West Ham are ten times better than us.

Should have stayed at WHL and built a team instead
 
The more I think about it, perhaps Kane was one of the targets Poch wanted to move on when he spoke of rebuilding.

We will never know what goes on behind the scenes fully but when Poch spoke about rebuilding I don't think anyone was an exception to that rule. Maybe that's where Levy and Poch went wrong so quickly, Poch thought he could make the decisions with the squad and Levy didn't like the idea of what he was being told. Bold and brave decisions were needed but Levy thought a more experienced winner would get it over the line instead.
 
Lilywhite9 said:
The more I think about it, perhaps Kane was one of the targets Poch wanted to move on when he spoke of rebuilding.

We will never know what goes on behind the scenes fully but when Poch spoke about rebuilding I don't think anyone was an exception to that rule. Maybe that's where Levy and Poch went wrong so quickly, Poch thought he could make the decisions with the squad and Levy didn't like the idea of what he was being told. Bold and brave decisions were needed but Levy thought a more experienced winner would get it over the line instead.
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Poch would have benched him when he was shite if that was the case
 
TylerB said:
Completely agree.

We had a great team but we didn't replace the players we lost due to age anything like adequately. Had we had done so, Kane would still be in love with playing for the club and we wouldn't have become such a circus.
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People need to understand (once and for all) that the stadium project didn't just magically start following the 2016/2017 season..... The stadium was already being torn down during that season!!!!

The wheels were put in motion a number of years before..... When we were still comparatively shite and reeling from AVB/BaleSale.... A point in time where even the EPL money wasn't anywhere near as much as it is became a year or two later.

People are essentially condoning abandoning the project at massive expense at the first signs of Poch getting a decent tune out of the squad (which itself didn't happen over night!).

Massively selective revisionism.
 
sammyspurs said:
Hi everyone, new here!
Just wondered what everyone thought about Kane turning our season around since committing to us and turning down City because he wants to be here!

I love having a world class striker don’t you guys!?
Would not swap for Lukaku or Lewandoski no way!
COYS!!

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BIN VOTE CAST FOR BEING A SMUG C***




But you were right. You were right.
GIF by The Office
 
Airfixx said:
People need to understand (once and for all) that the stadium project didn't just magically start following the 2016/2017 season..... The stadium was already being torn down during that season!!!!

The wheels were put in motion a number of years before..... When we were still comparatively shite and reeling from AVB/BaleSale.... A point in time where even the EPL money wasn't anywhere near as much as it is became a year or two later.

People are essentially condoning abandoning the project at massive expense at the first signs of Poch getting a decent tune out of the squad (which itself didn't happen over night!).

Massively selective revisionism.
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It was a massive opportunity to win things and transform their investment for the medium term. Why didn’t we borrow to finance the rebuild from a position of strength?
 
Poch wanted to bench Kane in the CL final but couldn't because Kane was the face of not only Spurs but England football. This is my take not by what Poch said but what he didn't say but showed
 
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