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Ex-Spurs Player Harry Kane

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Can't understand people saying he isn't worth £150m, in the current market Davinson fucking Sanchez and Tanguy can't run won't run are around £100m of players.
On that basis Kane is fucking priceless.

He is irreplaceable

I'm not dancing about like a wally to Sly Sports tune as we've had this with so many of our players down through the years, It's just tedious as fuck now, almost as tedious as football has become.

But on the one hand I wouldn't mind if he does go, will give me the excuse I've been looking for to end this abusive relationship with the club.
 
1966 said:
I was listening to, I think, Darren Bent on Talksport talking about how Levy strongarms players into those longer contracts (5/6 as standard). And in order to convince Kane to sign it, he probably made all sorts of promises regarding ambition and spending that he clearly hasn't honoured. As he likewise hasn't and probably won't honour a gentleman's agreement with Kane.

Regardless of whether you think Kane should be set free or not, Levy's clearly a bit of a dick and I completely understand why players have wised up and stopped signing contracts.
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If Kane and his representatives turned around and said,
'No, we won't sign a 6 year contract. Offer us the same salary over 2-3 years'

Do you think Levy would have just walked away from it and let him leave on a free?
I think a shorter contract would be offered eventually.

Promises made when signing a new contract should be included in the contract. A clause to leave for a minimum release fee if failing to quality for Europe or whatever. It's not like these contracts are written on a Rizla packet by a bunch of amateurs.
 
I hate Scousers said:
Can't understand people saying he isn't worth £150m, in the current market Davinson fucking Sanchez and Tanguy can't run won't run are around £100m of players.
On that basis Kane is fucking priceless.

He is irreplaceable

I'm not dancing about like a wally to Sly Sports tune as we've had this with so many of our players down through the years, It's just tedious as fuck now, almost as tedious as football has become.

But on the one hand I wouldn't mind if he does go, will give me the excuse I've been looking for to end this abusive relationship with the club.
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Because they think Levy will think we owe Kane a favour and sell him cheap at £100m because of his service to us. Completely ignoring the whole history of Levy and how he thinks and behaves.
 
NW1Spur said:
This is why it could get a bit unpleasant. The natural point at which Kane's valuation by Spurs and what a club like City will offer comes closer together next year, when he has two years left. That's why most observers thought next year he was far more likely to leave, this year the gap is too big between what a club will pay and what we will demand. To force through a move he's really going to have to create a lot if problems for the club, and if he isn't prepared to to do that, then why even go as far as leaking to Sky Sports he wants to leave. He's ended up pissing off people whilst probably having to stay another year. I don't think he's being well advised.
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Or his agents know exactly what they're doing and we simply don't know what's really going on. The latter is true regardless. That's the problem with high information asymmetry.
 
Tomo said:
It’s a 3 year deal. That might work next year or the year after but this is a Zaha situation, Levy has the contract. He will sell if a stupid price is meet. He might put a £200m tag on Kane and see if City throw something insane like £180m. But anything short of a crazy crazy price he has no reason to sell for at least 12 months.
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Zaha tried to leave within 12 months of a new contract, a contract he signed after asking for a move and not getting it. He was greedy

Kane signed his 3 years ago. He's had nothing new since.
 
Mampi said:
It's the players that are naive.
The long term contracts suit the club and agents more than the players, unless they are ageing and wouldn't expect to find a pay rise elsewhere for the last couple of years of it - or a player that is simply not as good as the contract they are getting. Like Ndombele signing a 5 year contract worth £52 million.

Keep the rest of your 'funny guy' guff to yourself though. There's a good lad.
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Will happily avoid your stupidity sonny jim.
 
Mampi said:
If Kane and his representatives turned around and said,
'No, we won't sign a 6 year contract. Offer us the same salary over 2-3 years'

Do you think Levy would have just walked away from it and let him leave on a free?
I think a shorter contract would be offered eventually.

Promises made when signing a new contract should be included in the contract. A clause to leave for a minimum release fee if failing to quality for Europe or whatever. It's not like these contracts are written on a Rizla packet by a bunch of amateurs.
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Yeah, I've said before that Kane's biggest mistake was not getting guarantees in his contract. The problem is how to quantify and operationalise "ambition" in legal language. How do you write ambition into a contract in a sane way?

Plus, Kane's lack of traditional intelligence (as smart as he is on a football field and as much as I love him) probably made him overly pliable in terms of private conversations with Levy. The idea that managers and owners don't influence players, intentionally and as much as possible, when their agents aren't present seems naive, so I don't think it's at all certain that agents get a chance to evaluate every claim. Harry's gentleman's agreement with Levy, provided it really exists, is solid proof of the extent to which agents, contracts and legalese can be circumvented.
 
TonySoprano said:
Where are we going to find top class players who want to join us for those sort of fees? Our recent record in that price range is Bergwijn, Sess, Aurier, Lucas, etc.

Plus we'll be losing all our best players initially to pay for the above.

I don't think that's good business at all.
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It was a bloody joke (maybe the emoji wasn't enough of a give away), but in line with Levy's M.O.
Went over your head though
 
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Matt1882 said:
Zaha tried to leave within 12 months of a new contract, a contract he signed after asking for a move and not getting it. He was greedy

Kane signed his 3 years ago. He's had nothing new since.
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Yes that is a nice moral tale but it’s Levy you are talking about. A 3 year deal to him means either crazy crazy money or no move.
 
cretinousgoat said:
He could. And then we could still turn around and say £150m or your trip was pointless.
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I fucking hope so, his value to us on the pitch is such that I'd sooner we keep him, happy or not, for 3 years and he then walks on a free if he hasn't had a change of heart by that time.

Even if the fee is astronomical, we'd just be giving ourselves another gaping hole to fill in side already abundant of gaping holes.
 
Man United haven't won the league title or challenged for it for 8 years.
Anyone who says going there to try and win the title is lazy and not going for the challenge is just trying to delude themselves.

The only place to get a guaranteed trophy every year is City and tbh, that's dependent on Pep. He has a history of short term jobs. Wouldn't rule him out of leaving in the near future.
 
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Tomo said:
Yes that is a nice moral tale but it’s Levy you are talking about. A 3 year deal to him means either crazy crazy money or no move.
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Honestly, all a contract is, is a way for a club to get a higher fee for a player. The length determines how much they can add on the fee.
It's got no real weight in anything and it's not designed to. Thank Bosman for that. The player has the power now.
 
Matt1882 said:
Honestly, all a contract is, is a way for a club to get a higher fee for a player. The length determines how much they can add on the fee.
It's got no real weight in anything and it's not designed to. Thank Bosman for that. The player has the power now.
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Yeh but it comes down to who. I was thinking with 3 years it would be 150m but I think even that Levy would go a bit higher. Unless the price is met nothing happens so who is going to do it.
 
Tomo said:
It’s a 3 year deal. That might work next year or the year after but this is a Zaha situation, Levy has the contract. He will sell if a stupid price is meet. He might put a £200m tag on Kane and see if City throw something insane like £180m. But anything short of a crazy crazy price he has no reason to sell for at least 12 months.
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If you think anybody is paying £180m or even £150m that is insane.

Much younger better options out there for clubs than spending that sort of money on a player that would have no sell-on value at the end of it.

Personally think we will price him out of a move this summer, and have to accept less than £100m next summer. How that affects Kane and the rest of squad in the interim is another question.
 
cretinousgoat said:
I don't give a fuck to be honest what he's supposedly given us. He fucked up in the finals - you know, the games that actually mattered.

And calling him a 'prisoner' is ridiculous language. The club is paying him 200k a week for fuck sake!

I WILL hold it against him if he goes to plastics like Chelsea, to be honest. That's his legacy killed, stone dead.

I won't be one of those cucks who kiss Kane's arse on his way out.

IF a club offers £150m plus then fair enough, but otherwise, he can get fucked. It's what Levy wants, price-wise, that is what matters.
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GOAT GOAT with the correct posts today!
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