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Ex-Spurs Player Harry Kane

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Brian Fantana said:
What happens if Man City come for Son next summer, do we act like pussies and sell too?
Or come for Skipp in 3 years time, do we sell then too?

Not selling Kane in the summer was about the bigger picture and not selling out to bullies. Thats not how you deal with them. You deal with them by not giving in. It was bigger than one player. Pretty obvious really.
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Man City will win stuff anyway and buy Haaland.
We’ll finish about 8th.

I’m not sure we’re “showing them”
 
Brian Fantana said:
What happens if Man City come for Son next summer, do we act like pussies and sell too?
Or come for Skipp in 3 years time, do we sell then too?

Not selling Kane in the summer was about the bigger picture and not selling out to bullies. Thats not how you deal with them. You deal with them by not giving in. It was bigger than one player. Pretty obvious really.
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The big man act approach to football dealings isn't particularly smart. If they came in with an offer for Son that the experts at the club felt exceeded his value, and they felt he was replaceable, then yes we should sell. If they don't think that then they shouldn't.

And the bigger picture is we probably sell to them, or someone else, either in January or Summer but for less money. Or we're stuck with a player who doesn't really want to be here but can't get a move because his form is so poor.

It's all well and good behaving like an elite club who don't sell their top players, but we don't behave like it in other ways (wages, transfer fees etc) so it all seems like a silly act. The question is whether City made an acceptable offer + we could replace him, and if the answer to both of those is yes .. then we should absolutely have let him go.
 
NDomBadBoy said:
The definition of 'World Class' is loosely thrown around here. Here's how I define it.

In a 11 v 11 game today, with the fate of the universe on the line, who are the best 22 players that would be selected. You can go with any formation you'd like.

Kane would not be on anyone's list from 2018 onwards.

If it were an 11 v 11 game with the best 11 playing Mura or Pacos, I think I might actually consider Kane for my 11 because he's a world class flat track bully. But against good defenders? No chance in hell he'd be in my list of top 10 attackers.
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Dramatic

I simply ask a question like:
Can he own Hungary like he can Plovdiv
 
Raumdeuterz said:
The big man act approach to football dealings isn't particularly smart. If they came in with an offer for Son that the experts at the club felt exceeded his value, and they felt he was replaceable, then yes we should sell. If they don't think that then they shouldn't.

And the bigger picture is we probably sell to them, or someone else, either in January or Summer but for less money. Or we're stuck with a player who doesn't really want to be here but can't get a move because his form is so poor.

It's all well and good behaving like an elite club who don't sell their top players, but we don't behave like it in other ways (wages, transfer fees etc) so it all seems like a silly act. The question is whether City made an acceptable offer + we could replace him, and if the answer to both of those is yes .. then we should absolutely have let him go.
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Agree, but they didn't. They offered up to £100m including players who didn't want to move to us. They never actually put a proper bid in. Anyway, I cant be bothered to go through all that again, we had to live that all summer.

Agree totally with the elite club bit obviously.
 
Brian Fantana said:
Agree, but they didn't. They offered up to £100m including players who didn't want to move to us. They never actually put a proper bid in. Anyway, I cant be bothered to go through all that again, we had to live that all summer.

Agree totally with the elite club bit obviously.
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The question there is whether after they made that bid (which was pretty early on) whether we had scope to negotiate further and get more, or if we simply didn't bother with that. Which nobody on here really knows for sure of course.

Either way we're left with a clusterfuck.
 
Raumdeuterz said:
The question there is whether after they made that bid (which was pretty early on) whether we had scope to negotiate further and get more, or if we simply didn't bother with that. Which nobody on here really knows for sure of course.

Either way we're left with a clusterfuck.
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Or the player picks up form, which he has been known to do with a short preseason? (His own fault of course!) If we go on past history, which we should, then that is exactly what will happen. It is just when.
 
Raumdeuterz said:
You are so full of absolute nonsense. It's just pure trolling.

A player submitting a transfer request will always come to public attention. It did with Coutinho, Tevez, Torres, Defoe and a bunch of others. If they actually submitted said request the club will usually directly address it. It's not a secret when they do so, you don't need to have spoken directly to the player.

Players are perfectly allowed to publicly declare that they've done so. Usually they'll make a statement (see: defoe) about what they're doing and why they're doing it. Sometimes in the case of a Suarez they'll just threaten to do it.

Go bother somebody else with your weird agenda.
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Maybe players announce it on your FIFA save but never in real life.
 
Brian Fantana said:
What happens if Man City come for Son next summer, do we act like pussies and sell too?
Or come for Skipp in 3 years time, do we sell then too?

Not selling Kane in the summer was about the bigger picture and not selling out to bullies. Thats not how you deal with them. You deal with them by not giving in. It was bigger than one player. Pretty obvious really.
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I thought Levy was correct at the time by refusing to speak with them but Kane’s valuation had nosedived since and by next summer we’ll be lucky to get £60 million
 
HenryHotspurII said:
Agreed but Bale and Modric were both in their prime at that time
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The comment I responded to:

"In the history of football it's never been a positive thing whatsoever to keep a player that wants to be somewhere else."

Besides, what's being brought into question here is HKs mentality.

If you think he's finished, then dulynoted but only time will tell.....
 
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