What a piece of sh!t.
Happy to sign a new deal when things are going well, happy to call Spurs his boyhood club.
He will fit right in at City.
comment by Tottenham Chronic (U3423)
posted 6 minutes ago
fack the player swaps.. straight cash deal for me.
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Laporte and Sterling plus £50m would be great business IMO.
You have to attract top players with the money clubs know you have, and there isn’t another Kane knocking about.
Official Levy does have a gentleman agreement with Kane, if Kane can say Red Lorry, Yellow Lorry 100 times without drowning in his own spit his free to leave.
comment by Busby (U19985)
posted 4 seconds ago
What a piece of sh!t.
Happy to sign a new deal when things are going well, happy to call Spurs his boyhood club.
He will fit right in at City.
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Levy regularly issues new contracts to our top players to keep the length in tact.
The club wanted him to sign a new deal. It wasn't exclusively Kane requesting it!
comment by GinolaSpurs82 (U10359)
posted 5 minutes ago
comment by KLS (U1695)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by GinolaSpurs82 (U10359)
posted 3 minutes ago
Guys,
Something I haven't seen mentioned yet is that this is a world cup season, which gives us another advantage.
Can you honestly see Kane going on gardening leave for 12 months, on zero pay, tarnishing his reputation with spurs fans, missing out on world cup, then still having 24 months left on contract at the end of it. Even if he turns up and plays at his worst he wouldn't risk all of the above.
He's not going to Sacrifice his wages, risk missing out on the national team and most of all not play football because of this.
We have been here before with Luka Modric - "you can't force a player to play for you when he doesn't want to" the pundits said. We he did, he got his head straight and arguably put in one of his best ever seasons for us and most remember him well from his time with us.
We absolutely have all the power in this situation, this is not a unique event.
It's going to be a bumpy few weeks that's for sure and we may not see the player in quite the same light that we did before but there is still hope.
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Why would he be on gardening leave and no pay?
You can only fine him 2 weeks wages for going awol, he then comes back and fakes a back injury (we had all this with Coutinho) which you can’t prove!
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If he doesn't play at all for whatever reason he won't be playing for England. I just can't see him jeopardising that. It's the only thing he can so atm to try and force it and I can't see it doing more than strenghtening our resolve at this point
His risking his entire career and reputation over this, when all the hype calms down as it did with Modric and bale the first time they tried this, he'll get his head down and play.
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He could spend 9 months on a yacht of the coast of Ibiza on a treadmill and Southgate would pick him.
You can only fine a player 2 weeks wages, so the not paying is mute and there’s no way the Spurs board don’t play him and stick him in the rezzies.
I don’t blame Harry being annoyed with the lack of ambition because we all are, but this and the Neville interview is a stab in the back to the Spurs supporters for me. F** Levy, I couldn’t give a toss about that bald c** feelings, but it’s the supporters that are going to feel betrayed and hurt by this. Like I said before, he was clearly tapped up by City last season. That Neville interview was concrete proof of that, name checking De Bruyne and quoting 100 mil transfer prices. Harry Kane was 100% tapped up. It’s now down to City to put up or shut up. If you desperately want him, you cough up the 160 mil he is worth. If not, shut the f** up Harry and get your nut down for the new season
comment by Busby (U19985)
posted 7 minutes ago
comment by Tottenham Chronic (U3423)
posted 6 minutes ago
fack the player swaps.. straight cash deal for me.
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Laporte and Sterling plus £50m would be great business IMO.
You have to attract top players with the money clubs know you have, and there isn’t another Kane knocking about.
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Plus any club you go to for replacements will just jack their prices up like Liverpool and Dortmund did when Neymar left Barca.
comment by KLS (U1695)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by GinolaSpurs82 (U10359)
posted 5 minutes ago
comment by KLS (U1695)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by GinolaSpurs82 (U10359)
posted 3 minutes ago
Guys,
Something I haven't seen mentioned yet is that this is a world cup season, which gives us another advantage.
Can you honestly see Kane going on gardening leave for 12 months, on zero pay, tarnishing his reputation with spurs fans, missing out on world cup, then still having 24 months left on contract at the end of it. Even if he turns up and plays at his worst he wouldn't risk all of the above.
He's not going to Sacrifice his wages, risk missing out on the national team and most of all not play football because of this.
We have been here before with Luka Modric - "you can't force a player to play for you when he doesn't want to" the pundits said. We he did, he got his head straight and arguably put in one of his best ever seasons for us and most remember him well from his time with us.
We absolutely have all the power in this situation, this is not a unique event.
It's going to be a bumpy few weeks that's for sure and we may not see the player in quite the same light that we did before but there is still hope.
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Why would he be on gardening leave and no pay?
You can only fine him 2 weeks wages for going awol, he then comes back and fakes a back injury (we had all this with Coutinho) which you can’t prove!
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If he doesn't play at all for whatever reason he won't be playing for England. I just can't see him jeopardising that. It's the only thing he can so atm to try and force it and I can't see it doing more than strenghtening our resolve at this point
His risking his entire career and reputation over this, when all the hype calms down as it did with Modric and bale the first time they tried this, he'll get his head down and play.
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He could spend 9 months on a yacht of the coast of Ibiza on a treadmill and Southgate would pick him.
You can only fine a player 2 weeks wages, so the not paying is mute and there’s no way the Spurs board don’t play him and stick him in the rezzies.
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Footballers by and large want to play, it feeds their egos and many genuinely still love to play - I doubt kane is any different and there would be very few cases when players with 3 years on their contracts dissapear ona. Yacht somewhere.
Remember the Suarez Saga ?
In 2013-14 . He had wanted to leave the club at the start of that campaign, waging an ugly public war as he tried to force a transfer to first Real Madrid and then, surprisingly, Arsenal.
He then went on to win two player of year awards and got a move to Barca the following year. It can be done if managed properly. Whether we have the men in charge in levy and co to manage this I don't know.
comment by MK (U9129)
posted 34 minutes ago
comment by Edinspur (U1109)
posted 3 seconds ago
comment by MK (U9129)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by Edinspur (U1109)
posted 48 seconds ago
*puts on tinfoil hat*
Is it really that bad?
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It’s disrespectful IMO. Grealish is training, Romero is training why shouldn’t Kane?
He’s likely still getting paid by us and should be doing his job
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Not to go all A.I. on it all - but it’s just practice.
I’d care a lot more if this was a continual issue, or he missed a game or whatever. However it’s a bloke who has literally given his all to the club, sacrificed his body, brought us brilliant consistency and is coming back off another ‘nearly’ moment. I don’t mind him having a day off for whatever reason it may be.
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A day off? Literally just had a 3 week holiday.
He’s contracted to the club and as such should be doing what the club tell him.
It’s not like city have even got a bid on the table iirc
Also it’s not just practice it’s the start of getting a ready for the season and we know it takes Kane ages to get up to speed normally.
Really don’t understand his mind set to do it. Would it really been hard to turn up do the tests and go home.
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But it’s one missed day. The holiday is irrelevant as he wasn’t working then.
The one thing I would say is this whole event epitomises why football is pretty shiiiiite. Not much sporting integrity or competition where you just hoover up the best talent and the best remains the best.
At least the super league would have allowed the PL to be more competitive.
comment by Edinspur (U1109)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by MK (U9129)
posted 34 minutes ago
comment by Edinspur (U1109)
posted 3 seconds ago
comment by MK (U9129)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by Edinspur (U1109)
posted 48 seconds ago
*puts on tinfoil hat*
Is it really that bad?
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It’s disrespectful IMO. Grealish is training, Romero is training why shouldn’t Kane?
He’s likely still getting paid by us and should be doing his job
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Not to go all A.I. on it all - but it’s just practice.
I’d care a lot more if this was a continual issue, or he missed a game or whatever. However it’s a bloke who has literally given his all to the club, sacrificed his body, brought us brilliant consistency and is coming back off another ‘nearly’ moment. I don’t mind him having a day off for whatever reason it may be.
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A day off? Literally just had a 3 week holiday.
He’s contracted to the club and as such should be doing what the club tell him.
It’s not like city have even got a bid on the table iirc
Also it’s not just practice it’s the start of getting a ready for the season and we know it takes Kane ages to get up to speed normally.
Really don’t understand his mind set to do it. Would it really been hard to turn up do the tests and go home.
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But it’s one missed day. The holiday is irrelevant as he wasn’t working then.
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One missed day right now and IMO that’s one too many.
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Remember the Suarez Saga ?
In 2013-14 . He had wanted to leave the club at the start of that campaign, waging an ugly public war as he tried to force a transfer to first Real Madrid and then, surprisingly, Arsenal.
He then went on to win two player of year awards and got a move to Barca the following year. It can be done if managed properly. Whether we have the men in charge in levy and co to manage this I don't know.
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Remember it well but Suarez didn’t want to go to Arsenal, he and his advisers want to know if the £40,000,001 bid would work and I guarantee that Spanish teams would’ve been all over it.
He played the next season because he had a similar agreement that he could move to Barca the next year, him biting Chiellini just drove his price down.
I’d liken this situation to Coutinho more than Suarez. Kane wants the move to City and City want it.
comment by Barf Vader (U15867)
posted 4 minutes ago
Apparently he was doing some community work at a local hospital this morning with Spurs blessing, according to reports...
The parents of a child who suffered a broken jaw in a car crash said: 'It's a really nice gesture of Harry to visit our little boy. He's a bit of of a gibbering mess at the moment, unable to speak properly and can't put a full sentence together, but at least he's a great footballer.'
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comment by Barf Vader (U15867)
posted 6 minutes ago
Apparently he was doing some community work at a local hospital this morning with Spurs blessing, according to reports...
The parents of a child who suffered a broken jaw in a car crash said: 'It's a really nice gesture of Harry to visit our little boy. He's a bit of of a gibbering mess at the moment, unable to speak properly and can't put a full sentence together, but at least he's a great footballer.'
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Disgusting
He’ll probably turn up tomorrow
Can’t see why any Spurs fan would hate Kane for this. Levy must’ve lied to him (which has been proven true many times) and has forced Kane into this. Although why Kane ever signed the contract is ridiculous
comment by MK (U9129)
posted 2 minutes ago
He’ll probably turn up tomorrow
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Yer, reporting his bad back!
Until we see something official from Tottenham we can speculate all we want but we have no idea if he was due for training today and missed it / had a sickie
They say there is no smoke without fire and there certainly seems to be a huge amount of smoke though
I guess I’m just hoping it’s all a big miss understanding and there is an official statement later on ( with all that’s being said tottenham have no choice but to issue a statement at some point)
I will put my hand up and say if it is true and he has done a bunk I always maintained he was too professional to do that…..id understand it but Kane will have destroyed his legacy at Spurs ….leaves a very sour taste for engineering it like this
Please only City though Harry…..anyone else makes zero sense unless it’s all for the money (but I think he would get paid at Tottenham what anyone else offers, we would match it)
City is the guarantee of trophies he craves …..if he signs for United for example he will be one hated man with Spurs fans. City is understandable
comment by Dempélé (U3338)
posted 1 hour, 30 minutes ago
I don't blame Kane.
Look at the progress of other clubs and look at what we've become.
The last throw of the dice having got rid of Poch, was to bring in 'proven winner', Mourinho.
Look how that turned out.
The merry go round finding a new manager and we've ended up with the former Wolves boss!!!!
(I actually think he'll do well, but hardly a prestige manager like Conte, who was available and would have perhaps made Kane think about one more season).
We haven't gone out and got our business done early in the transfer market - standard Levy.
So what do we expect from Kane?
He deserves to win trophies and deserves to be playing CL football.
Not turning up to training is hardly the end of the World... he is trying to get his move.
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He is under Contract for three more years, so refusing to train is tantamount to disrespecting the club and the fans. So all the blame will lie with him, if he is trying to strop his way out of the club.
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comment by JustYourAverageFan (U21016)
posted 6 minutes ago
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posted 21 minutes ago
comment by LukaBrasi COYS #FreePalestine (U22178)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by JustYourAverageFan (U21016)
posted 1 minute ago
As I say, the more you put your price up, the more you risk losing the deal. As much as clubs wouldn't usually complain about keeping a player of Kane's ability at the club, why bother when he doesn't want to be there.
Take £100m, or push it to £120m and then reinvest. No point pushing City for more if they aren't willing to pay it, they are pretty shrewd operators themselves despite the money they have.
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I would rather lose the deal and keep Kane for another season. He will get over it. He is a big boy and will eventually want to bang in goals again. He can go next season for £100m.when he is 29.
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There is no guarantee you will get £100m for him next season though. I don't know whether you think Kane leaving the club at whatever price is a shoe-in or not, but it's far from that.
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This is all academic, we will be charging £150m plus regardless of whether City want to pay it or not. £150m this year or £100m next.
£150m means we can improve the side, £100m likely means we won’t. Vlahovic and Romero will cost us £100m and we want another top CB plus Ings, so £150m will be necessary alongside the money we have already raised and spent.
The only compromise would be is Silva or Foden wanted to come to Spurs (zero chance) otherwise it will be cash
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Whereas nothing means you cannot improve your side in the necessary areas.
As the last couple of seasons have proved, the imbalance in your squad has affected your performance on the field. Yes, you keep the best CF in the league, but that means nothing when the rest of his team is falling around him as well.
You're going into next season with Sanchez, Dier, Rodon and Tanganga as your CB's (at the moment)...
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£100m would allow us to strengthen properly, £150m would. That’s Romero, Vlahovic, Tomiyasu, Ings and a CB on top of Gollini and Gil. £100m would likely mean no Ings or other CB.
Spurs and Levy will always cut off our nose to spite our face, it’s the reason other clubs hate buying from us. We would rather tank next year than not get what Kane is worth. It will be £150m + or we will keep an unhappy player
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Which is fair enough, but given your recent history of hanging on to players for too long, you'd have thought you'd cut your losses by now and get rid and work with what you have to get players in.
No point hanging about thinking clubs will come back in next season because I'm not sure they will. There are plenty of top/promising strikers that may end up becoming available within the next 12 months.
comment by sandy, golden boot winner fa cup 1901 (U20567)
posted 4 minutes ago
comment by Dempélé (U3338)
posted 1 hour, 30 minutes ago
I don't blame Kane.
Look at the progress of other clubs and look at what we've become.
The last throw of the dice having got rid of Poch, was to bring in 'proven winner', Mourinho.
Look how that turned out.
The merry go round finding a new manager and we've ended up with the former Wolves boss!!!!
(I actually think he'll do well, but hardly a prestige manager like Conte, who was available and would have perhaps made Kane think about one more season).
We haven't gone out and got our business done early in the transfer market - standard Levy.
So what do we expect from Kane?
He deserves to win trophies and deserves to be playing CL football.
Not turning up to training is hardly the end of the World... he is trying to get his move.
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He is under Contract for three more years, so refusing to train is tantamount to disrespecting the club and the fans. So all the blame will lie with him, if he is trying to strop his way out of the club.
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Yeah I don’t like the playing down of skipping training or any other appointments he was expected to be at today
Try doing that as a bus driver etc and see if you have a job after!
He signed an employment contract
Honour it! Happy or not!
These kinds of shenanigans are surprisingly common in the game. Footballers agitating for a move do all sorts, and there are almost certainly players in your squad who got there by pulling similar stunts.
The reality is that football is one of the only situations where you can't easily quit your job to go work elsewhere. There are understandable reasons for that, but there is therefore a duty to facilitate deals when a player wants to leave. It's an issue of personal freedom.
As much as you love Levy for being a tough negotiator, even if you don't love him for all the rest, it creates these situations to a much, much greater extent. The fees being demanded for Kane in a Covid world are intentionally unrealistic. The man shouldn't have signed a six year deal, but that speaks more to his love of your club clouding his judgement than anything else.
If he doesn't act up, he'll never get his move. What would you do?
comment by Girøulski Alt-0216 forever (U14971)
posted 12 seconds ago
These kinds of shenanigans are surprisingly common in the game. Footballers agitating for a move do all sorts, and there are almost certainly players in your squad who got there by pulling similar stunts.
The reality is that football is one of the only situations where you can't easily quit your job to go work elsewhere. There are understandable reasons for that, but there is therefore a duty to facilitate deals when a player wants to leave. It's an issue of personal freedom.
As much as you love Levy for being a tough negotiator, even if you don't love him for all the rest, it creates these situations to a much, much greater extent. The fees being demanded for Kane in a Covid world are intentionally unrealistic. The man shouldn't have signed a six year deal, but that speaks more to his love of your club clouding his judgement than anything else.
If he doesn't act up, he'll never get his move. What would you do?
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Be professional
Is a couple of trophies worth destroying a lifetime legacy at a club. He would go down as a legend in history at Spurs
If he engineers a move he will be vilified
He didn’t mind the big fat pay rise when he signed the contract
I understand his situation but I have zero sympathy
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posted on 2/8/21
What a piece of sh!t.
Happy to sign a new deal when things are going well, happy to call Spurs his boyhood club.
He will fit right in at City.
posted on 2/8/21
comment by Tottenham Chronic (U3423)
posted 6 minutes ago
fack the player swaps.. straight cash deal for me.
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Laporte and Sterling plus £50m would be great business IMO.
You have to attract top players with the money clubs know you have, and there isn’t another Kane knocking about.
posted on 2/8/21
Official Levy does have a gentleman agreement with Kane, if Kane can say Red Lorry, Yellow Lorry 100 times without drowning in his own spit his free to leave.
posted on 2/8/21
We don't need Sterling
posted on 2/8/21
comment by Busby (U19985)
posted 4 seconds ago
What a piece of sh!t.
Happy to sign a new deal when things are going well, happy to call Spurs his boyhood club.
He will fit right in at City.
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Levy regularly issues new contracts to our top players to keep the length in tact.
The club wanted him to sign a new deal. It wasn't exclusively Kane requesting it!
posted on 2/8/21
comment by GinolaSpurs82 (U10359)
posted 5 minutes ago
comment by KLS (U1695)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by GinolaSpurs82 (U10359)
posted 3 minutes ago
Guys,
Something I haven't seen mentioned yet is that this is a world cup season, which gives us another advantage.
Can you honestly see Kane going on gardening leave for 12 months, on zero pay, tarnishing his reputation with spurs fans, missing out on world cup, then still having 24 months left on contract at the end of it. Even if he turns up and plays at his worst he wouldn't risk all of the above.
He's not going to Sacrifice his wages, risk missing out on the national team and most of all not play football because of this.
We have been here before with Luka Modric - "you can't force a player to play for you when he doesn't want to" the pundits said. We he did, he got his head straight and arguably put in one of his best ever seasons for us and most remember him well from his time with us.
We absolutely have all the power in this situation, this is not a unique event.
It's going to be a bumpy few weeks that's for sure and we may not see the player in quite the same light that we did before but there is still hope.
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Why would he be on gardening leave and no pay?
You can only fine him 2 weeks wages for going awol, he then comes back and fakes a back injury (we had all this with Coutinho) which you can’t prove!
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If he doesn't play at all for whatever reason he won't be playing for England. I just can't see him jeopardising that. It's the only thing he can so atm to try and force it and I can't see it doing more than strenghtening our resolve at this point
His risking his entire career and reputation over this, when all the hype calms down as it did with Modric and bale the first time they tried this, he'll get his head down and play.
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He could spend 9 months on a yacht of the coast of Ibiza on a treadmill and Southgate would pick him.
You can only fine a player 2 weeks wages, so the not paying is mute and there’s no way the Spurs board don’t play him and stick him in the rezzies.
posted on 2/8/21
I don’t blame Harry being annoyed with the lack of ambition because we all are, but this and the Neville interview is a stab in the back to the Spurs supporters for me. F** Levy, I couldn’t give a toss about that bald c** feelings, but it’s the supporters that are going to feel betrayed and hurt by this. Like I said before, he was clearly tapped up by City last season. That Neville interview was concrete proof of that, name checking De Bruyne and quoting 100 mil transfer prices. Harry Kane was 100% tapped up. It’s now down to City to put up or shut up. If you desperately want him, you cough up the 160 mil he is worth. If not, shut the f** up Harry and get your nut down for the new season
posted on 2/8/21
comment by Busby (U19985)
posted 7 minutes ago
comment by Tottenham Chronic (U3423)
posted 6 minutes ago
fack the player swaps.. straight cash deal for me.
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Laporte and Sterling plus £50m would be great business IMO.
You have to attract top players with the money clubs know you have, and there isn’t another Kane knocking about.
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Plus any club you go to for replacements will just jack their prices up like Liverpool and Dortmund did when Neymar left Barca.
posted on 2/8/21
comment by KLS (U1695)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by GinolaSpurs82 (U10359)
posted 5 minutes ago
comment by KLS (U1695)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by GinolaSpurs82 (U10359)
posted 3 minutes ago
Guys,
Something I haven't seen mentioned yet is that this is a world cup season, which gives us another advantage.
Can you honestly see Kane going on gardening leave for 12 months, on zero pay, tarnishing his reputation with spurs fans, missing out on world cup, then still having 24 months left on contract at the end of it. Even if he turns up and plays at his worst he wouldn't risk all of the above.
He's not going to Sacrifice his wages, risk missing out on the national team and most of all not play football because of this.
We have been here before with Luka Modric - "you can't force a player to play for you when he doesn't want to" the pundits said. We he did, he got his head straight and arguably put in one of his best ever seasons for us and most remember him well from his time with us.
We absolutely have all the power in this situation, this is not a unique event.
It's going to be a bumpy few weeks that's for sure and we may not see the player in quite the same light that we did before but there is still hope.
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Why would he be on gardening leave and no pay?
You can only fine him 2 weeks wages for going awol, he then comes back and fakes a back injury (we had all this with Coutinho) which you can’t prove!
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If he doesn't play at all for whatever reason he won't be playing for England. I just can't see him jeopardising that. It's the only thing he can so atm to try and force it and I can't see it doing more than strenghtening our resolve at this point
His risking his entire career and reputation over this, when all the hype calms down as it did with Modric and bale the first time they tried this, he'll get his head down and play.
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He could spend 9 months on a yacht of the coast of Ibiza on a treadmill and Southgate would pick him.
You can only fine a player 2 weeks wages, so the not paying is mute and there’s no way the Spurs board don’t play him and stick him in the rezzies.
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Footballers by and large want to play, it feeds their egos and many genuinely still love to play - I doubt kane is any different and there would be very few cases when players with 3 years on their contracts dissapear ona. Yacht somewhere.
Remember the Suarez Saga ?
In 2013-14 . He had wanted to leave the club at the start of that campaign, waging an ugly public war as he tried to force a transfer to first Real Madrid and then, surprisingly, Arsenal.
He then went on to win two player of year awards and got a move to Barca the following year. It can be done if managed properly. Whether we have the men in charge in levy and co to manage this I don't know.
posted on 2/8/21
comment by MK (U9129)
posted 34 minutes ago
comment by Edinspur (U1109)
posted 3 seconds ago
comment by MK (U9129)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by Edinspur (U1109)
posted 48 seconds ago
*puts on tinfoil hat*
Is it really that bad?
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It’s disrespectful IMO. Grealish is training, Romero is training why shouldn’t Kane?
He’s likely still getting paid by us and should be doing his job
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Not to go all A.I. on it all - but it’s just practice.
I’d care a lot more if this was a continual issue, or he missed a game or whatever. However it’s a bloke who has literally given his all to the club, sacrificed his body, brought us brilliant consistency and is coming back off another ‘nearly’ moment. I don’t mind him having a day off for whatever reason it may be.
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A day off? Literally just had a 3 week holiday.
He’s contracted to the club and as such should be doing what the club tell him.
It’s not like city have even got a bid on the table iirc
Also it’s not just practice it’s the start of getting a ready for the season and we know it takes Kane ages to get up to speed normally.
Really don’t understand his mind set to do it. Would it really been hard to turn up do the tests and go home.
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But it’s one missed day. The holiday is irrelevant as he wasn’t working then.
posted on 2/8/21
The one thing I would say is this whole event epitomises why football is pretty shiiiiite. Not much sporting integrity or competition where you just hoover up the best talent and the best remains the best.
At least the super league would have allowed the PL to be more competitive.
posted on 2/8/21
comment by Edinspur (U1109)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by MK (U9129)
posted 34 minutes ago
comment by Edinspur (U1109)
posted 3 seconds ago
comment by MK (U9129)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by Edinspur (U1109)
posted 48 seconds ago
*puts on tinfoil hat*
Is it really that bad?
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It’s disrespectful IMO. Grealish is training, Romero is training why shouldn’t Kane?
He’s likely still getting paid by us and should be doing his job
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Not to go all A.I. on it all - but it’s just practice.
I’d care a lot more if this was a continual issue, or he missed a game or whatever. However it’s a bloke who has literally given his all to the club, sacrificed his body, brought us brilliant consistency and is coming back off another ‘nearly’ moment. I don’t mind him having a day off for whatever reason it may be.
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A day off? Literally just had a 3 week holiday.
He’s contracted to the club and as such should be doing what the club tell him.
It’s not like city have even got a bid on the table iirc
Also it’s not just practice it’s the start of getting a ready for the season and we know it takes Kane ages to get up to speed normally.
Really don’t understand his mind set to do it. Would it really been hard to turn up do the tests and go home.
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But it’s one missed day. The holiday is irrelevant as he wasn’t working then.
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One missed day right now and IMO that’s one too many.
posted on 2/8/21
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posted on 2/8/21
Remember the Suarez Saga ?
In 2013-14 . He had wanted to leave the club at the start of that campaign, waging an ugly public war as he tried to force a transfer to first Real Madrid and then, surprisingly, Arsenal.
He then went on to win two player of year awards and got a move to Barca the following year. It can be done if managed properly. Whether we have the men in charge in levy and co to manage this I don't know.
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Remember it well but Suarez didn’t want to go to Arsenal, he and his advisers want to know if the £40,000,001 bid would work and I guarantee that Spanish teams would’ve been all over it.
He played the next season because he had a similar agreement that he could move to Barca the next year, him biting Chiellini just drove his price down.
I’d liken this situation to Coutinho more than Suarez. Kane wants the move to City and City want it.
posted on 2/8/21
comment by Barf Vader (U15867)
posted 4 minutes ago
Apparently he was doing some community work at a local hospital this morning with Spurs blessing, according to reports...
The parents of a child who suffered a broken jaw in a car crash said: 'It's a really nice gesture of Harry to visit our little boy. He's a bit of of a gibbering mess at the moment, unable to speak properly and can't put a full sentence together, but at least he's a great footballer.'
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posted on 2/8/21
comment by Barf Vader (U15867)
posted 6 minutes ago
Apparently he was doing some community work at a local hospital this morning with Spurs blessing, according to reports...
The parents of a child who suffered a broken jaw in a car crash said: 'It's a really nice gesture of Harry to visit our little boy. He's a bit of of a gibbering mess at the moment, unable to speak properly and can't put a full sentence together, but at least he's a great footballer.'
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Disgusting
posted on 2/8/21
He’ll probably turn up tomorrow
posted on 2/8/21
Can’t see why any Spurs fan would hate Kane for this. Levy must’ve lied to him (which has been proven true many times) and has forced Kane into this. Although why Kane ever signed the contract is ridiculous
posted on 2/8/21
comment by MK (U9129)
posted 2 minutes ago
He’ll probably turn up tomorrow
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Yer, reporting his bad back!
posted on 2/8/21
Until we see something official from Tottenham we can speculate all we want but we have no idea if he was due for training today and missed it / had a sickie
They say there is no smoke without fire and there certainly seems to be a huge amount of smoke though
I guess I’m just hoping it’s all a big miss understanding and there is an official statement later on ( with all that’s being said tottenham have no choice but to issue a statement at some point)
I will put my hand up and say if it is true and he has done a bunk I always maintained he was too professional to do that…..id understand it but Kane will have destroyed his legacy at Spurs ….leaves a very sour taste for engineering it like this
Please only City though Harry…..anyone else makes zero sense unless it’s all for the money (but I think he would get paid at Tottenham what anyone else offers, we would match it)
City is the guarantee of trophies he craves …..if he signs for United for example he will be one hated man with Spurs fans. City is understandable
posted on 2/8/21
comment by Dempélé (U3338)
posted 1 hour, 30 minutes ago
I don't blame Kane.
Look at the progress of other clubs and look at what we've become.
The last throw of the dice having got rid of Poch, was to bring in 'proven winner', Mourinho.
Look how that turned out.
The merry go round finding a new manager and we've ended up with the former Wolves boss!!!!
(I actually think he'll do well, but hardly a prestige manager like Conte, who was available and would have perhaps made Kane think about one more season).
We haven't gone out and got our business done early in the transfer market - standard Levy.
So what do we expect from Kane?
He deserves to win trophies and deserves to be playing CL football.
Not turning up to training is hardly the end of the World... he is trying to get his move.
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He is under Contract for three more years, so refusing to train is tantamount to disrespecting the club and the fans. So all the blame will lie with him, if he is trying to strop his way out of the club.
posted on 2/8/21
comment by Striketeam7 - Have you seen the Muffin Man #WhatwouldSandydo? Woooooooooooooo (U18109)
posted 1 hour ago
comment by JustYourAverageFan (U21016)
posted 6 minutes ago
comment by Striketeam7 - Have you seen the Muffin Man #WhatwouldSandydo? Woooooooooooooo (U18109)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by JustYourAverageFan (U21016)
posted 21 minutes ago
comment by LukaBrasi COYS #FreePalestine (U22178)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by JustYourAverageFan (U21016)
posted 1 minute ago
As I say, the more you put your price up, the more you risk losing the deal. As much as clubs wouldn't usually complain about keeping a player of Kane's ability at the club, why bother when he doesn't want to be there.
Take £100m, or push it to £120m and then reinvest. No point pushing City for more if they aren't willing to pay it, they are pretty shrewd operators themselves despite the money they have.
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I would rather lose the deal and keep Kane for another season. He will get over it. He is a big boy and will eventually want to bang in goals again. He can go next season for £100m.when he is 29.
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There is no guarantee you will get £100m for him next season though. I don't know whether you think Kane leaving the club at whatever price is a shoe-in or not, but it's far from that.
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This is all academic, we will be charging £150m plus regardless of whether City want to pay it or not. £150m this year or £100m next.
£150m means we can improve the side, £100m likely means we won’t. Vlahovic and Romero will cost us £100m and we want another top CB plus Ings, so £150m will be necessary alongside the money we have already raised and spent.
The only compromise would be is Silva or Foden wanted to come to Spurs (zero chance) otherwise it will be cash
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Whereas nothing means you cannot improve your side in the necessary areas.
As the last couple of seasons have proved, the imbalance in your squad has affected your performance on the field. Yes, you keep the best CF in the league, but that means nothing when the rest of his team is falling around him as well.
You're going into next season with Sanchez, Dier, Rodon and Tanganga as your CB's (at the moment)...
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£100m would allow us to strengthen properly, £150m would. That’s Romero, Vlahovic, Tomiyasu, Ings and a CB on top of Gollini and Gil. £100m would likely mean no Ings or other CB.
Spurs and Levy will always cut off our nose to spite our face, it’s the reason other clubs hate buying from us. We would rather tank next year than not get what Kane is worth. It will be £150m + or we will keep an unhappy player
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Which is fair enough, but given your recent history of hanging on to players for too long, you'd have thought you'd cut your losses by now and get rid and work with what you have to get players in.
No point hanging about thinking clubs will come back in next season because I'm not sure they will. There are plenty of top/promising strikers that may end up becoming available within the next 12 months.
posted on 2/8/21
comment by sandy, golden boot winner fa cup 1901 (U20567)
posted 4 minutes ago
comment by Dempélé (U3338)
posted 1 hour, 30 minutes ago
I don't blame Kane.
Look at the progress of other clubs and look at what we've become.
The last throw of the dice having got rid of Poch, was to bring in 'proven winner', Mourinho.
Look how that turned out.
The merry go round finding a new manager and we've ended up with the former Wolves boss!!!!
(I actually think he'll do well, but hardly a prestige manager like Conte, who was available and would have perhaps made Kane think about one more season).
We haven't gone out and got our business done early in the transfer market - standard Levy.
So what do we expect from Kane?
He deserves to win trophies and deserves to be playing CL football.
Not turning up to training is hardly the end of the World... he is trying to get his move.
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He is under Contract for three more years, so refusing to train is tantamount to disrespecting the club and the fans. So all the blame will lie with him, if he is trying to strop his way out of the club.
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Yeah I don’t like the playing down of skipping training or any other appointments he was expected to be at today
Try doing that as a bus driver etc and see if you have a job after!
He signed an employment contract
Honour it! Happy or not!
posted on 2/8/21
These kinds of shenanigans are surprisingly common in the game. Footballers agitating for a move do all sorts, and there are almost certainly players in your squad who got there by pulling similar stunts.
The reality is that football is one of the only situations where you can't easily quit your job to go work elsewhere. There are understandable reasons for that, but there is therefore a duty to facilitate deals when a player wants to leave. It's an issue of personal freedom.
As much as you love Levy for being a tough negotiator, even if you don't love him for all the rest, it creates these situations to a much, much greater extent. The fees being demanded for Kane in a Covid world are intentionally unrealistic. The man shouldn't have signed a six year deal, but that speaks more to his love of your club clouding his judgement than anything else.
If he doesn't act up, he'll never get his move. What would you do?
posted on 2/8/21
comment by Girøulski Alt-0216 forever (U14971)
posted 12 seconds ago
These kinds of shenanigans are surprisingly common in the game. Footballers agitating for a move do all sorts, and there are almost certainly players in your squad who got there by pulling similar stunts.
The reality is that football is one of the only situations where you can't easily quit your job to go work elsewhere. There are understandable reasons for that, but there is therefore a duty to facilitate deals when a player wants to leave. It's an issue of personal freedom.
As much as you love Levy for being a tough negotiator, even if you don't love him for all the rest, it creates these situations to a much, much greater extent. The fees being demanded for Kane in a Covid world are intentionally unrealistic. The man shouldn't have signed a six year deal, but that speaks more to his love of your club clouding his judgement than anything else.
If he doesn't act up, he'll never get his move. What would you do?
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Be professional
Is a couple of trophies worth destroying a lifetime legacy at a club. He would go down as a legend in history at Spurs
If he engineers a move he will be vilified
He didn’t mind the big fat pay rise when he signed the contract
I understand his situation but I have zero sympathy
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