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Ex-Spurs Player Harry Kane

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Airfixx said:
- He owes the club 3 more years service unless there is a change in his contractual situation.
- He owes the club his utmost professionalism in all aspects of his conduct; whether he's on 20k p/a or 200,000kpw.
- He owes the fans (you and I) total respect in all that he does until he is no longer a Spurs player.
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At the end of the day., he wants to go. That is clear. We either sell him now while we can still get an insane amount of money for a player perhaps just past his peak, or we keep an unhappy player that we all know wanted to move elsewhere and didn't not by his own choice. The latter never works out well. I think his legacy with us has already been tainted, keeping him now would be ridiculous. It's time everyone moved on.

My biggest worry is how Levy and Espirito Santo will spend the Kane money. We're looking like a mid-table club at best, which genuinely top players will be mad enough to sign for us?
 
Col_McCafferty said:
Yeah but it is what it is, no point bemoaning the fact that have been financially doped.
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No..... More people should bemoan it..... Across the entire game.

People are right to bemoan ENIC, but nothing outside of their club? ....Something that stacked the deck against us and our LEGIT methods which until they arrived upon the scene were evidently working....???

Nah, sorry.

Col_McCafferty said:
I don't think Kane gives a shit!
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I couldn't give a shit whether Kane gives a shit. :)

It'll be the overall state of the game that is the eventual nail in the coffin for my love for the game; not whether Kane leaves Spurs or not.
 
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The thing I don't get about all this is that Man City's interest in Kane this summer has been muted to say the least. It's all been Kane and his "representatives" trying to talk up a move. Why would you want to play for a club that doesn't want you?

City want Grealish. They made a bid for Grealish. Grealish goes into training for Aston Villa as expected.

City don't care about Kane. They (maybe) made a half-hearted offer which we rejected. Kane refuses to play for us in the hope that Levy will become desperate to offload an unsettled player for a reduced fee which Man City will be prepared to pay.

It's really sad to see such a great player reduced to this. By doing this, he is insulting his own ability and greatly diminishing his reputation. This is not the behaviour of an England captain.
 
Pathfinder said:
Did you tell the person I replied not to use the word "dumb"? If he calls another person dumb he should be ready to an equal reaction back.
Well, I did not say that Man City has put in an official bid for Kane. But do you really believe no clubs will be willing to pay a "substantial" fee for him and that the Kane's are not aware of that...?
You may not be aware of what may go on behind the public eye when it comes to deals but that is why players have agents - who talk between themselves and saves the clubs from being accused of tapping another player
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All of which is irrelevant to the situation. As has been stated, City haven't made any offer at all, so there's no move available for him to force through by being difficult.

If he's so desperate to move, why hasn't he put in a transfer request? I thought this was about trophies, not money. Surely if he's so desperate to move and get trophies, the loss of a loyalty bonus would be low on his list of priorities?

The whole thing smacks of Kane wanting to have his cake and eat it.
 
The Swellhead Spur said:
I love fans saying "I'd take £120m for him" of course you would, he isn't contracted to you.

Look at it objectively, he is worth more than that, much more than that to us.

Have we had any covid discounts? Not really paying €50mil for Romero & big money and player for Bryan Gil, why should we give City a covid discount?
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I agree, the fee for Kane should be absolutely ridiculous. He has just been the top scorer and top for assists in the Premier League and has 3 years left on his contract. He is at his peak right now. When Kane makes 30 appearances in the league, he gets 20+ league goals, he is as good a guarantee as you can get.

The fee that the club asks for should (and will, imo) reflect this.
 
simon j said:
One could also argue the club sacrificed for Kane. Should not have started champions league or league cup finals as he was not fit. He is up there with sol cambell now!!!!!
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Really? Or are you joking? He’s missed one days training - if the reason is a deliberate absence to make a point, he should be fined by the club. But he’s a long way from being in the same treasonous company as that twat.
 
Pathfinder said:
Oh now you are twisting my opening statement - which was basically that while Spurs fans are happy to see stars of other clubs leaving their clubs and fans for Spurs.... while they get upset (rightly so, in a way) when Spurs's stars want to leave Spurs for another club...
I did NOT condone Kane's action in any way.
All I said about Romero, maybe the reason he did not throw a fit was because his club did comply to his wish of wanting to be sold - so he no reason to
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Whatever.... You musings here are muddy as shit and you've already conceded that you're playing devils advocate so what's the point.
 
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Herclueless said:
Do you not think that signing a 6 year contract was a choice he made on his own career path though?

He could have not signed it and been totally free to do as he pleased, he could have insisted on a shorter term and boohoo, he might have had to compromise on the wages, he could have insisted on some tangible form of release fee or clause.

He didn't do any of that, maybe in part because he has his cunt brother acting as his agent rather than a proper agent. Also his choice.
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Fair points but I do recall this time four years ago Spurs were on the up and up but since then things have gone somewhat pear shaped. Poch knew a rebuild was necessary and made that plain but it cost him his job. Levy brought in the “Stale one” to replace him and atrophy set in... why then would a world class player not have second thoughts when every supporter in the country both of Spurs and every other club have witnessed this diabolical Daniel Levy/ENIC catastrophic implosion or would you call it something else?
 
Oh let the fucking Circus begin....

We're merely the AUDIENCE... we don't get a SAY in what happens.... like it or not, we've gotta suck it up like the loyal idiots we are....
Kane ain't gonna stay 'cos half a dozen people wrote on a bedsheet to say; "Harry Kane, we want you to stay..." at the first home game...

Shame 'cos the same bedsheet with: "Sonny, give me your shirt" always seems to work!

...and what's weird is, if I GENUINELY supported Spurs, I'd want only the best for MY CLUB.... and if I could provide it, all the better!
I wouldn't WANT Man City, or Cheksea, Or Liverpool or Utd, or ArseAnal winning things AHEAD of the club I love, IF I was in a position to help THE CLUB I LOVE win things!

But then again.... I haven't been offered £500k + to support another team....
 
SoCalSpurs said:
They aren’t when people have your attitude about them. This mentality that Europeans have with meaningless contracts is ridiculous.
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In one sense he is right, in that footballers rarely make it to the end of a contract. But the crucial point is, the contract has immense worth to a selling club, if a player has years left to run. For us, it means we get to ask for a big price, or the would-be buyer can be told to fuck off.
 
Brian Fantana said:
That's just it in a nut shell. He is agitating for a move to a club who don't want to pay what he is worth to us to sell. We do need to put a deadline on it. Man City pay our asking price by Thursday. If they don't, then he's going nowhere. We are in the driving seat here. Not Kane and not those pricks at Man City.
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How are we in the driving seat? Since when has it started to be a good thing for any club to keep an unhappy player around?

If Kane is forced to stay and he plays he'll get abuse the moment supporters insist he's not giving 100%. Even at the back end of last season you could clearly see his performance level drop.
 
enfield1985 said:
The fact they are part of a ruling elite in a country where there are religious police to arrest the people. The fact homosexuality is a crime in their country. The fact migrant workers have their passports kept by their employers and during Coronavirus their passports were retained by employers when laid off so they were stuck in Abu Dhabi. The fact that Sheikh Mansour has been involved directly I money laundering and bribery. The fact they broke FFP without any pretence.

City should be expelled from the league system and be forced to start a Phoenix club how many of these mercenaries would stick around. City have tainted the game and forced clubs in the Champions and lower to play the lottery by overspending on players to try get promoted. The fact is transfer debt is at record high in football and makes what Leeds did look like nothing their are clubs in the championship and League 1 that currently carry similar debt to Leeds when they declared bankruptcy. If you tell me that PSG, Chelsea and Man City are not big contributors to the rising transfer fees and wages all down the ladder you are kidding yourself.

Everything about City is wrong and if the Premier League were competent in their investigation and punished them accordingly they would not be in the position they are.
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The discussion was not regarding the background of the owners of City, but about sugar daddies that invest in clubs vs capitalists who enrich themselves at the expense of supporters. I know which of the two I prefer.

PSG, Chelsea and City contribute to rising transfer fees, but those are clubs with owners that put money into football, money that trickles down (I do not belong to the economical right that believes in trickle-down-economics, but in the case of football, money that are invested at the top to buy players from the clubs below actually do trickle down). The owners of the likes of Liverpool, Man United and Woolwich, on the other hand, drains money from football. The problem for championship clubs and league one clubs is not the competition from or money from the clubs above, it is more so over-ambitious, dreamy and sloppy owners that overinvest at their level, and extremely hard competition to get to the next level (e.g. to PL from Championship or to CL from League 1).

"Everything about City is wrong" is a ridiculous statement. They do a lot of things right at City, with respect to how they run a football club. You can hate the owners, you can be jealous at the investments made, but your statement still remains ridiculous.
 
TylerB said:
How are we in the driving seat? Since when has it started to be a good thing for any club to keep an unhappy player around?

If Kane is forced to stay and he plays he'll get abuse the moment supporters insist he's not giving 100%. Even at the back end of last season you could clearly see his performance level drop.
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We refused to sell Modric to Chelsea, he continued to play well for us and we sold him a year later to Real Madrid. I'm quite happy for us to keep Kane for another year and I'm sure he will be a productive player because he is too good, and too driven, not to be.
 
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