comment by whodunnit (U22710)
posted 13 minutes ago
comment by Striketeam7 - the smartest person you know - Bronze medal khunt 2022 - Buy..Bellingham and another mid 20s Thiago type...lets just call him "frank" (U18109)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by whodunnit (U22710)
posted 29 minutes ago
let him go for nothing and you need to spend 150m to replace him.
let him go this summer and you get 80-100m put towards that fee to replace him.
no brainer for me, if he doesnt sign a new deal by end of season you have to sell him surely
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£150m strikers don’t want to sign for us
Osimhen isn’t joining us over other offers.
Getting big money for Kane will just mean we overpay for someone like Jonathan David.
We’re basically back in Bale territory, you can’t actually replace these players, not directly anyway, you have to spread it and hope 1 or 2 workout - Eriksen did and to a degree Lamela.
I would rather hold Kane another year and go all out for a domestic cup - winning a League cup could be enough to hold Kane for the rest of his career. If we don’t win and he goes on a free then we replace him with what we can - we have money, we just don’t spend anywhere near as much as we can.
Would like to see us go for Brennan Johnson in the summer - 21 years old - 7 goals and 2 assists in 26 games for Forest is not to be sniffed at
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you pay them 150m player worth of wages they will IMO.
150m and 250k-300k a week is enough to tempt a top striker to join.
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Which has knock on problems to the rest of the squad not earning that much - we suddenly have to massively increase our overall wage base to accommodate one player. Now with Kane that’s fine because no one at Spurs is saying they should earn as much as Kane - but bring a new guy in who doesn’t produce and you have a recipe for disaster.
We’re better off holding Kane for another year - the only reason we have a chance of making the CL this year is because of him - so if he does similar next year then he more or less repays his fee. Plus we get 1 more year to try and win something so that he feels he can finish his career with us.
The day we have to replace Kane - whenever it may come, will be horrendously difficult. We failed to replace Modric, Eriksen, Dembele, Bale, Berbatov and I am certain we won’t replace Kane adequately.
What Spurs need to do is start going back to what made us a top 6 side - buying the likes of Son/Berbatov/Carrick/Modric/Bale before they become household names. That’s where we have lost our way
comment by WeekendOffender (U22920)
posted 4 minutes ago
Can see Flatrack replacing an unsettled Mbappe at PSG.
Even Kane could win something in France surely?
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Yes but could Wolves or West Ham?
I just don't see what Levy's play is here. He has no record of winning, has a poor record of hiring managers and has a poor record of spending big money effectively. There becomes a point where its hard as a player signing a new contract (Kane), appointing a new manager (Poch, Tuchel etc) or signing new players to take him seriously. He talks Spurs up to the point where he genuinely believed Spurs should be part of the ESL.... but has NOTHING tangible other than a fancy stadium to back it up.
At some point Levy has to "Back It Up Or Blow it Up"... The bullshlt has to end
Levy's approach to Kane just seems to be to kick the can down the road for a long as possible and hope a pray we finally win something. At some point Kane is just gonna say screw it and move because it would be a damn sight easier to achieve his goals elsewhere... Unless Levy changes the habits of a lifetime, nothing will be any different at Spurs 12 months from now and Levy will be facing a 80mln quid+ headache.
comment by Striketeam7 - the smartest person you know - Bronze medal khunt 2022 - Buy..Bellingham and another mid 20s Thiago type...lets just call him "frank" (U18109)
posted 6 minutes ago
comment by whodunnit (U22710)
posted 13 minutes ago
comment by Striketeam7 - the smartest person you know - Bronze medal khunt 2022 - Buy..Bellingham and another mid 20s Thiago type...lets just call him "frank" (U18109)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by whodunnit (U22710)
posted 29 minutes ago
let him go for nothing and you need to spend 150m to replace him.
let him go this summer and you get 80-100m put towards that fee to replace him.
no brainer for me, if he doesnt sign a new deal by end of season you have to sell him surely
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£150m strikers don’t want to sign for us
Osimhen isn’t joining us over other offers.
Getting big money for Kane will just mean we overpay for someone like Jonathan David.
We’re basically back in Bale territory, you can’t actually replace these players, not directly anyway, you have to spread it and hope 1 or 2 workout - Eriksen did and to a degree Lamela.
I would rather hold Kane another year and go all out for a domestic cup - winning a League cup could be enough to hold Kane for the rest of his career. If we don’t win and he goes on a free then we replace him with what we can - we have money, we just don’t spend anywhere near as much as we can.
Would like to see us go for Brennan Johnson in the summer - 21 years old - 7 goals and 2 assists in 26 games for Forest is not to be sniffed at
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you pay them 150m player worth of wages they will IMO.
150m and 250k-300k a week is enough to tempt a top striker to join.
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Which has knock on problems to the rest of the squad not earning that much - we suddenly have to massively increase our overall wage base to accommodate one player. Now with Kane that’s fine because no one at Spurs is saying they should earn as much as Kane - but bring a new guy in who doesn’t produce and you have a recipe for disaster.
We’re better off holding Kane for another year - the only reason we have a chance of making the CL this year is because of him - so if he does similar next year then he more or less repays his fee. Plus we get 1 more year to try and win something so that he feels he can finish his career with us.
The day we have to replace Kane - whenever it may come, will be horrendously difficult. We failed to replace Modric, Eriksen, Dembele, Bale, Berbatov and I am certain we won’t replace Kane adequately.
What Spurs need to do is start going back to what made us a top 6 side - buying the likes of Son/Berbatov/Carrick/Modric/Bale before they become household names. That’s where we have lost our way
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its inevitable players wages go up all the time, and you need to pay the wages required for the level of player required.
the day you have to replace Kane will be so tough clearly.
Maybe it should come down to if you make the CL this year. If you do sell him whilst you have tha t carrot to dangle to sell the club more rather than gambling if you make it to CL the next season.
Your best bet is replacing him with more money and at a time where you are in the champ league. There is a chance that those two align this summer and both could be missing next summber
comment by Striketeam7 - the smartest person you know - Bronze medal khunt 2022 - Buy..Bellingham and another mid 20s Thiago type...lets just call him "frank" (U18109)
posted 1 hour, 29 minutes ago
comment by whodunnit (U22710)
posted 29 minutes ago
let him go for nothing and you need to spend 150m to replace him.
let him go this summer and you get 80-100m put towards that fee to replace him.
no brainer for me, if he doesnt sign a new deal by end of season you have to sell him surely
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£150m strikers don’t want to sign for us
Osimhen isn’t joining us over other offers.
Getting big money for Kane will just mean we overpay for someone like Jonathan David.
We’re basically back in Bale territory, you can’t actually replace these players, not directly anyway, you have to spread it and hope 1 or 2 workout - Eriksen did and to a degree Lamela.
I would rather hold Kane another year and go all out for a domestic cup - winning a League cup could be enough to hold Kane for the rest of his career. If we don’t win and he goes on a free then we replace him with what we can - we have money, we just don’t spend anywhere near as much as we can.
Would like to see us go for Brennan Johnson in the summer - 21 years old - 7 goals and 2 assists in 26 games for Forest is not to be sniffed at
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This is a great point. Of all the strikers that would WANT to join Spurs, we can afford them regardless of Kane's sale. I'd say our upper limit is players of the 60m calibre. Anyone above that and they're going to be holding out for bigger clubs than us and there's nothing we can do about that.
The only caveat to that point is that selling Kane does allow us to spread those funds to much needed other areas of the squad that need recruitment, like the defence or a creative in midfield.
I think if Kane goes, I don't think we'll be looking for a direct replacement as there just aren't any out there good enough to fill that void. Richy will likely take over in the central role and maybe we'll look for a young understudy on the bench.
I agree about Johnson, always liked him and I'd push the boat out for Mitoma too. Perfect replacement for Sonny. Then Maddison and a new centre back if the funds are there. Don't think we'll get that lot though unless we do get outgoing funds through the door. Time to shift the loan players, even if it's for peanuts.
It's all press/media BS they have to keep this story going some how. Do they really thing Levy is stupid enought to let Harry run down his contract and go for free....... not a chance, cannot see it.
I personally think we will have to offload Harry and Sonny to have a decent transfer kitty. No one's going to buy anyone we want to get rid of for decent money. I mean weve tried and there are no takers.
If we make the the top 4 I guess we have more in the coffers but it's is ground hogg day, rinse and repeat. Levy will think all is ok on my watch......the silly kant.
I think Kane will be boxed into staying at Spurs.
Regarding our interest I think it all depends on the sale of the club, the Glazers sanctioning the money Levy would want for Kane isn’t going to happen for Qatar it may be a different matter and a statement signing.
Maybe the return of Poch would keep him at Spurs, in someways this would be the best outcome, it would be a sad day for him and all Spurs fans if he left the club, we’re all rivals but we all need our heroes especially ones who love our clubs as much as we do.
Yeah, it is all press and media BS driven largely by Levy himself. What we're seeing now isn't a determination to not let Harry go, it's a message to Man United that we won't be letting him for peanuts. It's the starter gun for the negotiation.
comment by Franko Cantona 🏆 for ego only (U22187)
posted 7 minutes ago
Regarding our interest I think it all depends on the sale of the club, the Glazers sanctioning the money Levy would want for Kane isn’t going to happen for Qatar it may be a different matter and a statement signing.
Maybe the return of Poch would keep him at Spurs, in someways this would be the best outcome, it would be a sad day for him and all Spurs fans if he left the club, we’re all rivals but we all need our heroes especially ones who love our clubs as much as we do.
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I’m starting to get the feeling that Levy will just refuse to sell to a prem team. Would actually make sense from his position, because it Kane doesn’t leave then United will sign another strike, which rules out a future move - which may see Kane end up signing a new contract and just settling for a career at Spurs.
On the one hand I, like all of us, am sick to death with the media, Sky in particular, selling off Kane ( on our behalf ) for about 3 years now. God this "story" is so worn out it beggars belief.
Alway find it funny that, no matter how poor other big 6 clubs are ( yeah Chelsea and Liverpool, I am looking at you ) none of their players are ever likely to want out, according to the media.
Then again, keep him next year and he goes for nothing, leaving Levy with a minimum £60/70m bill to replace him like for like. Whereas, let him go now, if there are mugs out there who want to give up, say £80/90m, then use that money to replace him.
Lets be honest, for me yeah he is our best player ( on his day ) but is just as guilty of 'not turning up in big games' as anyone else. Perhaps he is as guilty as anyone else for our (an his ) lack of trophies ??
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posted 15 minutes ago
comment by Franko Cantona 🏆 for ego only (U22187)
posted 7 minutes ago
Regarding our interest I think it all depends on the sale of the club, the Glazers sanctioning the money Levy would want for Kane isn’t going to happen for Qatar it may be a different matter and a statement signing.
Maybe the return of Poch would keep him at Spurs, in someways this would be the best outcome, it would be a sad day for him and all Spurs fans if he left the club, we’re all rivals but we all need our heroes especially ones who love our clubs as much as we do.
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I’m starting to get the feeling that Levy will just refuse to sell to a prem team. Would actually make sense from his position, because it Kane doesn’t leave then United will sign another strike, which rules out a future move - which may see Kane end up signing a new contract and just settling for a career at Spurs.
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I have a sneaky feeling this is his game plan. Play the long game/ price him out of a move this summer and force other clubs to move in a different direction. IF, as promised the stadium revs put us in a better position to build around Kane then all well and good... The upcoming managerial appointment will be the biggest decision of Levy's career... He simply can't afford another c()ck up. I don't think the fans or Kane will stand for another season with an unbalanced squad, negative style and taking top 4 as some kind of achievement. We need to aspire for more or blow it up and start again without Kane
comment by SteveF (U22027)
posted 15 minutes ago
On the one hand I, like all of us, am sick to death with the media, Sky in particular, selling off Kane ( on our behalf ) for about 3 years now. God this "story" is so worn out it beggars belief.
Alway find it funny that, no matter how poor other big 6 clubs are ( yeah Chelsea and Liverpool, I am looking at you ) none of their players are ever likely to want out, according to the media.
Then again, keep him next year and he goes for nothing, leaving Levy with a minimum £60/70m bill to replace him like for like. Whereas, let him go now, if there are mugs out there who want to give up, say £80/90m, then use that money to replace him.
Lets be honest, for me yeah he is our best player ( on his day ) but is just as guilty of 'not turning up in big games' as anyone else. Perhaps he is as guilty as anyone else for our (an his ) lack of trophies ??
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I agree about the media. It does my head. It's so much worse with Kane that it was with Modric, Bale etc. Every possible chance they get to push him to United, they take it. It would be nice to hear from someone that has the opposing point of view. I'm not sure that leaving to win trophies does get you anywhere. Not really. Jack Grealish has won the Prem with City but who out of City and Villa fans remembers him most fondly? Of who's club will he be remembered as a bit of a legend? Not City's. Great players being one tiny fragment of something big is just not as attractive as being a hero of something slightly smaller. The obsession with trophies I find really strange. So many great players haven't won much. Lineker only won one FA Cup. No one was persistently touting him for Arsenal or Liverpool back in the day. He was as valuable as Kane is now. The game has changed dramatically since then. The CL has created an elite club so if you're a club like Spurs who flirt with the CL rather than consider themselves an established outfit in the competition, your best players are fair game for touting. It's absurd. No one said this about Rashford when United hadn't won anything for six years.
The Chelsea / Liverpool argument is a bit ridiculous. They've very recently won CL's and PL's so those players aren't being touted as everyone accept they are clubs in a transitional phase.
Players worth 80-90m do not want to join Spurs. We're only going to be able to replace him with players in the 60m bracket anyway.
I think I'd keep him and hope United go for Oshimen. With the news that Nkunku is going to Chelsea that leaves Kane with no other option but to sign a new deal with us. Horrible to do that to him but I can't bear to see him in another club's shirt.
Kane's best chance to go was 2 years ago to City before they got Haaland.. sadly, his brother/ his contract screwed him out of that one. I was praying England could have won the World Cup..... That would have ended all the trophy chatter !
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posted 11 minutes ago
comment by Kobbie The King Mainoo (U10026)
posted 15 minutes ago
comment by Franko Cantona 🏆 for ego only (U22187)
posted 7 minutes ago
Regarding our interest I think it all depends on the sale of the club, the Glazers sanctioning the money Levy would want for Kane isn’t going to happen for Qatar it may be a different matter and a statement signing.
Maybe the return of Poch would keep him at Spurs, in someways this would be the best outcome, it would be a sad day for him and all Spurs fans if he left the club, we’re all rivals but we all need our heroes especially ones who love our clubs as much as we do.
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I’m starting to get the feeling that Levy will just refuse to sell to a prem team. Would actually make sense from his position, because it Kane doesn’t leave then United will sign another strike, which rules out a future move - which may see Kane end up signing a new contract and just settling for a career at Spurs.
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I have a sneaky feeling this is his game plan. Play the long game/ price him out of a move this summer and force other clubs to move in a different direction. IF, as promised the stadium revs put us in a better position to build around Kane then all well and good... The upcoming managerial appointment will be the biggest decision of Levy's career... He simply can't afford another c()ck up. I don't think the fans or Kane will stand for another season with an unbalanced squad, negative style and taking top 4 as some kind of achievement. We need to aspire for more or blow it up and start again without Kane
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Even if Kane doesn’t sign a new contract it would probably be better for Spurs having him another year before he goes on a free.
Imagine if Kane ran down his contract and left on a free to join Arsenal ala Campbell... Just to stick it to Levy
comment by Diamondlights (U20501)
posted 12 minutes ago
Imagine if Kane ran down his contract and left on a free to join Arsenal ala Campbell... Just to stick it to Levy
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Never in a million years. Two different beasts. I can't even imagine the hate Kane would get if that were to happen.
comment by whodunnit (U22710)
posted 3 hours, 48 minutes ago
let him go for nothing and you need to spend 150m to replace him.
let him go this summer and you get 80-100m put towards that fee to replace him.
no brainer for me, if he doesnt sign a new deal by end of season you have to sell him surely
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Give United the piece of the jigsaw they are crying out for It wont happen, and nor should it.
We are better off doing all we can to keep him, improving the squad and team, make a strong start and hope this is enough to convince him to sign on. Salah signed a new deal well into his last year.
If we lose him for zero then so be it. He'll be 32 and we'll move on.
You'd also have to think that losing Kane = a new project, so it wont be a case of a like for like replacement, it will be changing our system and planning for the future. As Liverpool have shown you cannot just swap out Mane for a very expensive replacement and expect it to work. They have had to change how they play and start over. Its disrupted the whole team.
Sell Kane and its 2 steps back and Project Rebuild. Keep him and we are at least continuing to build on what we have and we have 1 year to make it really work.
If a big club from abroad comes in, then he would surely seriously consider it. How meaningful is a PL goalscoring record compared to featuring in the big CL games, vying for titles and picking up silverware, when you are a world class 30 yr old who hasn't won anything yet and your club doesn't look like winning anything any time soon?
I'm at a point where I'd be ok if we were to lose him for big money or ok in keeping him. If we lose him it's part of our fresh start, we won't have to worry about pleasing him all the time, and we might start having some good free kicks to look forward to. If he stays then great, we've still got a world class player and our best goalscorer.
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posted 34 minutes ago
comment by whodunnit (U22710)
posted 3 hours, 48 minutes ago
let him go for nothing and you need to spend 150m to replace him.
let him go this summer and you get 80-100m put towards that fee to replace him.
no brainer for me, if he doesnt sign a new deal by end of season you have to sell him surely
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Give United the piece of the jigsaw they are crying out forIt wont happen, and nor should it.
We are better off doing all we can to keep him, improving the squad and team, make a strong start and hope this is enough to convince him to sign on. Salah signed a new deal well into his last year.
If we lose him for zero then so be it. He'll be 32 and we'll move on.
You'd also have to think that losing Kane = a new project, so it wont be a case of a like for like replacement, it will be changing our system and planning for the future. As Liverpool have shown you cannot just swap out Mane for a very expensive replacement and expect it to work. They have had to change how they play and start over. Its disrupted the whole team.
Sell Kane and its 2 steps back and Project Rebuild. Keep him and we are at least continuing to build on what we have and we have 1 year to make it really work.
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This is something I brought up a while ago talking up the positives of losing Kane, if there are straws to clutch. All the while Kane is here, we're looking to patch over problems, looking for that quick fix to fast track us to glory when we all know that a club of our size can't really do that. The only way, I think, that we get there IS to rebuild from a reset position but keeping Kane happy is stopping us from doing it. If you say to him we're starting the 5 year project from scratch, he'll walk out and slam the door but I do think it's a necessary step to turn us around.
Unlike Arsenal, our squad is massively top heavy in terms of talent. The true trophy winners strike a good balance. Rarely does one man fire a team to a title unless he's superhuman, like Messi. There was a period when Liverpool had one main man in Coutinho. they sold him at the right time and reinvested wisely to rebalance the team. Then they kicked on massively. We didn't do that with Alli, Eriksen and now it's happening again with Kane. At one time or another those three could have fetched at least 300m. As it is, we've managed to get about 17m for Eriksen alone. Sometimes it's wise to sell as much as it is to buy.
Coutinho wasn’t anywhere near as important to Liverpool as Kane is to Spurs. They were also recruiting well before they sold him, something Spurs haven’t done. It’s definitely clutching at straws to suggest Kane’s presence is informing the poor recruitment.
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posted 34 minutes ago
comment by whodunnit (U22710)
posted 3 hours, 48 minutes ago
let him go for nothing and you need to spend 150m to replace him.
let him go this summer and you get 80-100m put towards that fee to replace him.
no brainer for me, if he doesnt sign a new deal by end of season you have to sell him surely
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Give United the piece of the jigsaw they are crying out forIt wont happen, and nor should it.
We are better off doing all we can to keep him, improving the squad and team, make a strong start and hope this is enough to convince him to sign on. Salah signed a new deal well into his last year.
If we lose him for zero then so be it. He'll be 32 and we'll move on.
You'd also have to think that losing Kane = a new project, so it wont be a case of a like for like replacement, it will be changing our system and planning for the future. As Liverpool have shown you cannot just swap out Mane for a very expensive replacement and expect it to work. They have had to change how they play and start over. Its disrupted the whole team.
Sell Kane and its 2 steps back and Project Rebuild. Keep him and we are at least continuing to build on what we have and we have 1 year to make it really work.
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This is something I brought up a while ago talking up the positives of losing Kane, if there are straws to clutch. All the while Kane is here, we're looking to patch over problems, looking for that quick fix to fast track us to glory when we all know that a club of our size can't really do that. The only way, I think, that we get there IS to rebuild from a reset position but keeping Kane happy is stopping us from doing it. If you say to him we're starting the 5 year project from scratch, he'll walk out and slam the door but I do think it's a necessary step to turn us around.
Unlike Arsenal, our squad is massively top heavy in terms of talent. The true trophy winners strike a good balance. Rarely does one man fire a team to a title unless he's superhuman, like Messi. There was a period when Liverpool had one main man in Coutinho. they sold him at the right time and reinvested wisely to rebalance the team. Then they kicked on massively. We didn't do that with Alli, Eriksen and now it's happening again with Kane. At one time or another those three could have fetched at least 300m. As it is, we've managed to get about 17m for Eriksen alone. Sometimes it's wise to sell as much as it is to buy.
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your assuming only an english team would be the ones bidding for him.
Bayern would make sense for eg, can pay the wages, he goes there scores for fun, wins loads.
I think PSG would take him if thy could get Neymar off the books more so since it looks like messi might be moving back to barca.
But if Spurs can keep Kane for another year, and it gets them out of the group stages of the CL (providing they qualify again) and then get into the CL again next season, then it’s probably financially better for Spurs than any transfer fee they’ll get for him this summer.
I’ve no doubt that’s something Levy will be thinking, then hoping the clubs that would be in for him look at others targets for cf, which leaves Kane with fewer options as a free agent.
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posted 3 minutes ago
comment by fridgeboy (U1053)
posted 19 minutes ago
comment by Devonshirespur (U6316)
posted 34 minutes ago
comment by whodunnit (U22710)
posted 3 hours, 48 minutes ago
let him go for nothing and you need to spend 150m to replace him.
let him go this summer and you get 80-100m put towards that fee to replace him.
no brainer for me, if he doesnt sign a new deal by end of season you have to sell him surely
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Give United the piece of the jigsaw they are crying out forIt wont happen, and nor should it.
We are better off doing all we can to keep him, improving the squad and team, make a strong start and hope this is enough to convince him to sign on. Salah signed a new deal well into his last year.
If we lose him for zero then so be it. He'll be 32 and we'll move on.
You'd also have to think that losing Kane = a new project, so it wont be a case of a like for like replacement, it will be changing our system and planning for the future. As Liverpool have shown you cannot just swap out Mane for a very expensive replacement and expect it to work. They have had to change how they play and start over. Its disrupted the whole team.
Sell Kane and its 2 steps back and Project Rebuild. Keep him and we are at least continuing to build on what we have and we have 1 year to make it really work.
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This is something I brought up a while ago talking up the positives of losing Kane, if there are straws to clutch. All the while Kane is here, we're looking to patch over problems, looking for that quick fix to fast track us to glory when we all know that a club of our size can't really do that. The only way, I think, that we get there IS to rebuild from a reset position but keeping Kane happy is stopping us from doing it. If you say to him we're starting the 5 year project from scratch, he'll walk out and slam the door but I do think it's a necessary step to turn us around.
Unlike Arsenal, our squad is massively top heavy in terms of talent. The true trophy winners strike a good balance. Rarely does one man fire a team to a title unless he's superhuman, like Messi. There was a period when Liverpool had one main man in Coutinho. they sold him at the right time and reinvested wisely to rebalance the team. Then they kicked on massively. We didn't do that with Alli, Eriksen and now it's happening again with Kane. At one time or another those three could have fetched at least 300m. As it is, we've managed to get about 17m for Eriksen alone. Sometimes it's wise to sell as much as it is to buy.
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your assuming only an english team would be the ones bidding for him.
Bayern would make sense for eg, can pay the wages, he goes there scores for fun, wins loads.
I think PSG would take him if thy could get Neymar off the books more so since it looks like messi might be moving back to barca.
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Are you responding to me? I've said nothing about selling him to an English team. For what it's worth, he won't go abroad. I think you're underestimating exactly what that would mean to a striker to break Shearer's record.
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Kane's Future
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posted on 15/3/23
comment by whodunnit (U22710)
posted 13 minutes ago
comment by Striketeam7 - the smartest person you know - Bronze medal khunt 2022 - Buy..Bellingham and another mid 20s Thiago type...lets just call him "frank" (U18109)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by whodunnit (U22710)
posted 29 minutes ago
let him go for nothing and you need to spend 150m to replace him.
let him go this summer and you get 80-100m put towards that fee to replace him.
no brainer for me, if he doesnt sign a new deal by end of season you have to sell him surely
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£150m strikers don’t want to sign for us
Osimhen isn’t joining us over other offers.
Getting big money for Kane will just mean we overpay for someone like Jonathan David.
We’re basically back in Bale territory, you can’t actually replace these players, not directly anyway, you have to spread it and hope 1 or 2 workout - Eriksen did and to a degree Lamela.
I would rather hold Kane another year and go all out for a domestic cup - winning a League cup could be enough to hold Kane for the rest of his career. If we don’t win and he goes on a free then we replace him with what we can - we have money, we just don’t spend anywhere near as much as we can.
Would like to see us go for Brennan Johnson in the summer - 21 years old - 7 goals and 2 assists in 26 games for Forest is not to be sniffed at
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you pay them 150m player worth of wages they will IMO.
150m and 250k-300k a week is enough to tempt a top striker to join.
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Which has knock on problems to the rest of the squad not earning that much - we suddenly have to massively increase our overall wage base to accommodate one player. Now with Kane that’s fine because no one at Spurs is saying they should earn as much as Kane - but bring a new guy in who doesn’t produce and you have a recipe for disaster.
We’re better off holding Kane for another year - the only reason we have a chance of making the CL this year is because of him - so if he does similar next year then he more or less repays his fee. Plus we get 1 more year to try and win something so that he feels he can finish his career with us.
The day we have to replace Kane - whenever it may come, will be horrendously difficult. We failed to replace Modric, Eriksen, Dembele, Bale, Berbatov and I am certain we won’t replace Kane adequately.
What Spurs need to do is start going back to what made us a top 6 side - buying the likes of Son/Berbatov/Carrick/Modric/Bale before they become household names. That’s where we have lost our way
posted on 15/3/23
comment by WeekendOffender (U22920)
posted 4 minutes ago
Can see Flatrack replacing an unsettled Mbappe at PSG.
Even Kane could win something in France surely?
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Yes but could Wolves or West Ham?
posted on 15/3/23
I just don't see what Levy's play is here. He has no record of winning, has a poor record of hiring managers and has a poor record of spending big money effectively. There becomes a point where its hard as a player signing a new contract (Kane), appointing a new manager (Poch, Tuchel etc) or signing new players to take him seriously. He talks Spurs up to the point where he genuinely believed Spurs should be part of the ESL.... but has NOTHING tangible other than a fancy stadium to back it up.
At some point Levy has to "Back It Up Or Blow it Up"... The bullshlt has to end
posted on 15/3/23
Levy's approach to Kane just seems to be to kick the can down the road for a long as possible and hope a pray we finally win something. At some point Kane is just gonna say screw it and move because it would be a damn sight easier to achieve his goals elsewhere... Unless Levy changes the habits of a lifetime, nothing will be any different at Spurs 12 months from now and Levy will be facing a 80mln quid+ headache.
posted on 15/3/23
comment by Striketeam7 - the smartest person you know - Bronze medal khunt 2022 - Buy..Bellingham and another mid 20s Thiago type...lets just call him "frank" (U18109)
posted 6 minutes ago
comment by whodunnit (U22710)
posted 13 minutes ago
comment by Striketeam7 - the smartest person you know - Bronze medal khunt 2022 - Buy..Bellingham and another mid 20s Thiago type...lets just call him "frank" (U18109)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by whodunnit (U22710)
posted 29 minutes ago
let him go for nothing and you need to spend 150m to replace him.
let him go this summer and you get 80-100m put towards that fee to replace him.
no brainer for me, if he doesnt sign a new deal by end of season you have to sell him surely
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£150m strikers don’t want to sign for us
Osimhen isn’t joining us over other offers.
Getting big money for Kane will just mean we overpay for someone like Jonathan David.
We’re basically back in Bale territory, you can’t actually replace these players, not directly anyway, you have to spread it and hope 1 or 2 workout - Eriksen did and to a degree Lamela.
I would rather hold Kane another year and go all out for a domestic cup - winning a League cup could be enough to hold Kane for the rest of his career. If we don’t win and he goes on a free then we replace him with what we can - we have money, we just don’t spend anywhere near as much as we can.
Would like to see us go for Brennan Johnson in the summer - 21 years old - 7 goals and 2 assists in 26 games for Forest is not to be sniffed at
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you pay them 150m player worth of wages they will IMO.
150m and 250k-300k a week is enough to tempt a top striker to join.
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Which has knock on problems to the rest of the squad not earning that much - we suddenly have to massively increase our overall wage base to accommodate one player. Now with Kane that’s fine because no one at Spurs is saying they should earn as much as Kane - but bring a new guy in who doesn’t produce and you have a recipe for disaster.
We’re better off holding Kane for another year - the only reason we have a chance of making the CL this year is because of him - so if he does similar next year then he more or less repays his fee. Plus we get 1 more year to try and win something so that he feels he can finish his career with us.
The day we have to replace Kane - whenever it may come, will be horrendously difficult. We failed to replace Modric, Eriksen, Dembele, Bale, Berbatov and I am certain we won’t replace Kane adequately.
What Spurs need to do is start going back to what made us a top 6 side - buying the likes of Son/Berbatov/Carrick/Modric/Bale before they become household names. That’s where we have lost our way
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its inevitable players wages go up all the time, and you need to pay the wages required for the level of player required.
the day you have to replace Kane will be so tough clearly.
Maybe it should come down to if you make the CL this year. If you do sell him whilst you have tha t carrot to dangle to sell the club more rather than gambling if you make it to CL the next season.
Your best bet is replacing him with more money and at a time where you are in the champ league. There is a chance that those two align this summer and both could be missing next summber
posted on 15/3/23
comment by Striketeam7 - the smartest person you know - Bronze medal khunt 2022 - Buy..Bellingham and another mid 20s Thiago type...lets just call him "frank" (U18109)
posted 1 hour, 29 minutes ago
comment by whodunnit (U22710)
posted 29 minutes ago
let him go for nothing and you need to spend 150m to replace him.
let him go this summer and you get 80-100m put towards that fee to replace him.
no brainer for me, if he doesnt sign a new deal by end of season you have to sell him surely
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£150m strikers don’t want to sign for us
Osimhen isn’t joining us over other offers.
Getting big money for Kane will just mean we overpay for someone like Jonathan David.
We’re basically back in Bale territory, you can’t actually replace these players, not directly anyway, you have to spread it and hope 1 or 2 workout - Eriksen did and to a degree Lamela.
I would rather hold Kane another year and go all out for a domestic cup - winning a League cup could be enough to hold Kane for the rest of his career. If we don’t win and he goes on a free then we replace him with what we can - we have money, we just don’t spend anywhere near as much as we can.
Would like to see us go for Brennan Johnson in the summer - 21 years old - 7 goals and 2 assists in 26 games for Forest is not to be sniffed at
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This is a great point. Of all the strikers that would WANT to join Spurs, we can afford them regardless of Kane's sale. I'd say our upper limit is players of the 60m calibre. Anyone above that and they're going to be holding out for bigger clubs than us and there's nothing we can do about that.
The only caveat to that point is that selling Kane does allow us to spread those funds to much needed other areas of the squad that need recruitment, like the defence or a creative in midfield.
I think if Kane goes, I don't think we'll be looking for a direct replacement as there just aren't any out there good enough to fill that void. Richy will likely take over in the central role and maybe we'll look for a young understudy on the bench.
I agree about Johnson, always liked him and I'd push the boat out for Mitoma too. Perfect replacement for Sonny. Then Maddison and a new centre back if the funds are there. Don't think we'll get that lot though unless we do get outgoing funds through the door. Time to shift the loan players, even if it's for peanuts.
posted on 15/3/23
It's all press/media BS they have to keep this story going some how. Do they really thing Levy is stupid enought to let Harry run down his contract and go for free....... not a chance, cannot see it.
I personally think we will have to offload Harry and Sonny to have a decent transfer kitty. No one's going to buy anyone we want to get rid of for decent money. I mean weve tried and there are no takers.
If we make the the top 4 I guess we have more in the coffers but it's is ground hogg day, rinse and repeat. Levy will think all is ok on my watch......the silly kant.
posted on 15/3/23
I think Kane will be boxed into staying at Spurs.
posted on 15/3/23
Regarding our interest I think it all depends on the sale of the club, the Glazers sanctioning the money Levy would want for Kane isn’t going to happen for Qatar it may be a different matter and a statement signing.
Maybe the return of Poch would keep him at Spurs, in someways this would be the best outcome, it would be a sad day for him and all Spurs fans if he left the club, we’re all rivals but we all need our heroes especially ones who love our clubs as much as we do.
posted on 15/3/23
Yeah, it is all press and media BS driven largely by Levy himself. What we're seeing now isn't a determination to not let Harry go, it's a message to Man United that we won't be letting him for peanuts. It's the starter gun for the negotiation.
posted on 15/3/23
comment by Franko Cantona 🏆 for ego only (U22187)
posted 7 minutes ago
Regarding our interest I think it all depends on the sale of the club, the Glazers sanctioning the money Levy would want for Kane isn’t going to happen for Qatar it may be a different matter and a statement signing.
Maybe the return of Poch would keep him at Spurs, in someways this would be the best outcome, it would be a sad day for him and all Spurs fans if he left the club, we’re all rivals but we all need our heroes especially ones who love our clubs as much as we do.
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I’m starting to get the feeling that Levy will just refuse to sell to a prem team. Would actually make sense from his position, because it Kane doesn’t leave then United will sign another strike, which rules out a future move - which may see Kane end up signing a new contract and just settling for a career at Spurs.
posted on 15/3/23
On the one hand I, like all of us, am sick to death with the media, Sky in particular, selling off Kane ( on our behalf ) for about 3 years now. God this "story" is so worn out it beggars belief.
Alway find it funny that, no matter how poor other big 6 clubs are ( yeah Chelsea and Liverpool, I am looking at you ) none of their players are ever likely to want out, according to the media.
Then again, keep him next year and he goes for nothing, leaving Levy with a minimum £60/70m bill to replace him like for like. Whereas, let him go now, if there are mugs out there who want to give up, say £80/90m, then use that money to replace him.
Lets be honest, for me yeah he is our best player ( on his day ) but is just as guilty of 'not turning up in big games' as anyone else. Perhaps he is as guilty as anyone else for our (an his ) lack of trophies ??
posted on 15/3/23
comment by Kobbie The King Mainoo (U10026)
posted 15 minutes ago
comment by Franko Cantona 🏆 for ego only (U22187)
posted 7 minutes ago
Regarding our interest I think it all depends on the sale of the club, the Glazers sanctioning the money Levy would want for Kane isn’t going to happen for Qatar it may be a different matter and a statement signing.
Maybe the return of Poch would keep him at Spurs, in someways this would be the best outcome, it would be a sad day for him and all Spurs fans if he left the club, we’re all rivals but we all need our heroes especially ones who love our clubs as much as we do.
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I’m starting to get the feeling that Levy will just refuse to sell to a prem team. Would actually make sense from his position, because it Kane doesn’t leave then United will sign another strike, which rules out a future move - which may see Kane end up signing a new contract and just settling for a career at Spurs.
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I have a sneaky feeling this is his game plan. Play the long game/ price him out of a move this summer and force other clubs to move in a different direction. IF, as promised the stadium revs put us in a better position to build around Kane then all well and good... The upcoming managerial appointment will be the biggest decision of Levy's career... He simply can't afford another c()ck up. I don't think the fans or Kane will stand for another season with an unbalanced squad, negative style and taking top 4 as some kind of achievement. We need to aspire for more or blow it up and start again without Kane
posted on 15/3/23
comment by SteveF (U22027)
posted 15 minutes ago
On the one hand I, like all of us, am sick to death with the media, Sky in particular, selling off Kane ( on our behalf ) for about 3 years now. God this "story" is so worn out it beggars belief.
Alway find it funny that, no matter how poor other big 6 clubs are ( yeah Chelsea and Liverpool, I am looking at you ) none of their players are ever likely to want out, according to the media.
Then again, keep him next year and he goes for nothing, leaving Levy with a minimum £60/70m bill to replace him like for like. Whereas, let him go now, if there are mugs out there who want to give up, say £80/90m, then use that money to replace him.
Lets be honest, for me yeah he is our best player ( on his day ) but is just as guilty of 'not turning up in big games' as anyone else. Perhaps he is as guilty as anyone else for our (an his ) lack of trophies ??
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I agree about the media. It does my head. It's so much worse with Kane that it was with Modric, Bale etc. Every possible chance they get to push him to United, they take it. It would be nice to hear from someone that has the opposing point of view. I'm not sure that leaving to win trophies does get you anywhere. Not really. Jack Grealish has won the Prem with City but who out of City and Villa fans remembers him most fondly? Of who's club will he be remembered as a bit of a legend? Not City's. Great players being one tiny fragment of something big is just not as attractive as being a hero of something slightly smaller. The obsession with trophies I find really strange. So many great players haven't won much. Lineker only won one FA Cup. No one was persistently touting him for Arsenal or Liverpool back in the day. He was as valuable as Kane is now. The game has changed dramatically since then. The CL has created an elite club so if you're a club like Spurs who flirt with the CL rather than consider themselves an established outfit in the competition, your best players are fair game for touting. It's absurd. No one said this about Rashford when United hadn't won anything for six years.
The Chelsea / Liverpool argument is a bit ridiculous. They've very recently won CL's and PL's so those players aren't being touted as everyone accept they are clubs in a transitional phase.
Players worth 80-90m do not want to join Spurs. We're only going to be able to replace him with players in the 60m bracket anyway.
I think I'd keep him and hope United go for Oshimen. With the news that Nkunku is going to Chelsea that leaves Kane with no other option but to sign a new deal with us. Horrible to do that to him but I can't bear to see him in another club's shirt.
posted on 15/3/23
Kane's best chance to go was 2 years ago to City before they got Haaland.. sadly, his brother/ his contract screwed him out of that one. I was praying England could have won the World Cup..... That would have ended all the trophy chatter !
posted on 15/3/23
comment by Diamondlights (U20501)
posted 11 minutes ago
comment by Kobbie The King Mainoo (U10026)
posted 15 minutes ago
comment by Franko Cantona 🏆 for ego only (U22187)
posted 7 minutes ago
Regarding our interest I think it all depends on the sale of the club, the Glazers sanctioning the money Levy would want for Kane isn’t going to happen for Qatar it may be a different matter and a statement signing.
Maybe the return of Poch would keep him at Spurs, in someways this would be the best outcome, it would be a sad day for him and all Spurs fans if he left the club, we’re all rivals but we all need our heroes especially ones who love our clubs as much as we do.
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I’m starting to get the feeling that Levy will just refuse to sell to a prem team. Would actually make sense from his position, because it Kane doesn’t leave then United will sign another strike, which rules out a future move - which may see Kane end up signing a new contract and just settling for a career at Spurs.
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I have a sneaky feeling this is his game plan. Play the long game/ price him out of a move this summer and force other clubs to move in a different direction. IF, as promised the stadium revs put us in a better position to build around Kane then all well and good... The upcoming managerial appointment will be the biggest decision of Levy's career... He simply can't afford another c()ck up. I don't think the fans or Kane will stand for another season with an unbalanced squad, negative style and taking top 4 as some kind of achievement. We need to aspire for more or blow it up and start again without Kane
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Even if Kane doesn’t sign a new contract it would probably be better for Spurs having him another year before he goes on a free.
posted on 15/3/23
Imagine if Kane ran down his contract and left on a free to join Arsenal ala Campbell... Just to stick it to Levy
posted on 15/3/23
comment by Diamondlights (U20501)
posted 12 minutes ago
Imagine if Kane ran down his contract and left on a free to join Arsenal ala Campbell... Just to stick it to Levy
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Never in a million years. Two different beasts. I can't even imagine the hate Kane would get if that were to happen.
posted on 15/3/23
comment by whodunnit (U22710)
posted 3 hours, 48 minutes ago
let him go for nothing and you need to spend 150m to replace him.
let him go this summer and you get 80-100m put towards that fee to replace him.
no brainer for me, if he doesnt sign a new deal by end of season you have to sell him surely
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Give United the piece of the jigsaw they are crying out for It wont happen, and nor should it.
We are better off doing all we can to keep him, improving the squad and team, make a strong start and hope this is enough to convince him to sign on. Salah signed a new deal well into his last year.
If we lose him for zero then so be it. He'll be 32 and we'll move on.
You'd also have to think that losing Kane = a new project, so it wont be a case of a like for like replacement, it will be changing our system and planning for the future. As Liverpool have shown you cannot just swap out Mane for a very expensive replacement and expect it to work. They have had to change how they play and start over. Its disrupted the whole team.
Sell Kane and its 2 steps back and Project Rebuild. Keep him and we are at least continuing to build on what we have and we have 1 year to make it really work.
posted on 15/3/23
If a big club from abroad comes in, then he would surely seriously consider it. How meaningful is a PL goalscoring record compared to featuring in the big CL games, vying for titles and picking up silverware, when you are a world class 30 yr old who hasn't won anything yet and your club doesn't look like winning anything any time soon?
I'm at a point where I'd be ok if we were to lose him for big money or ok in keeping him. If we lose him it's part of our fresh start, we won't have to worry about pleasing him all the time, and we might start having some good free kicks to look forward to. If he stays then great, we've still got a world class player and our best goalscorer.
posted on 15/3/23
comment by Devonshirespur (U6316)
posted 34 minutes ago
comment by whodunnit (U22710)
posted 3 hours, 48 minutes ago
let him go for nothing and you need to spend 150m to replace him.
let him go this summer and you get 80-100m put towards that fee to replace him.
no brainer for me, if he doesnt sign a new deal by end of season you have to sell him surely
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Give United the piece of the jigsaw they are crying out forIt wont happen, and nor should it.
We are better off doing all we can to keep him, improving the squad and team, make a strong start and hope this is enough to convince him to sign on. Salah signed a new deal well into his last year.
If we lose him for zero then so be it. He'll be 32 and we'll move on.
You'd also have to think that losing Kane = a new project, so it wont be a case of a like for like replacement, it will be changing our system and planning for the future. As Liverpool have shown you cannot just swap out Mane for a very expensive replacement and expect it to work. They have had to change how they play and start over. Its disrupted the whole team.
Sell Kane and its 2 steps back and Project Rebuild. Keep him and we are at least continuing to build on what we have and we have 1 year to make it really work.
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This is something I brought up a while ago talking up the positives of losing Kane, if there are straws to clutch. All the while Kane is here, we're looking to patch over problems, looking for that quick fix to fast track us to glory when we all know that a club of our size can't really do that. The only way, I think, that we get there IS to rebuild from a reset position but keeping Kane happy is stopping us from doing it. If you say to him we're starting the 5 year project from scratch, he'll walk out and slam the door but I do think it's a necessary step to turn us around.
Unlike Arsenal, our squad is massively top heavy in terms of talent. The true trophy winners strike a good balance. Rarely does one man fire a team to a title unless he's superhuman, like Messi. There was a period when Liverpool had one main man in Coutinho. they sold him at the right time and reinvested wisely to rebalance the team. Then they kicked on massively. We didn't do that with Alli, Eriksen and now it's happening again with Kane. At one time or another those three could have fetched at least 300m. As it is, we've managed to get about 17m for Eriksen alone. Sometimes it's wise to sell as much as it is to buy.
posted on 15/3/23
Coutinho wasn’t anywhere near as important to Liverpool as Kane is to Spurs. They were also recruiting well before they sold him, something Spurs haven’t done. It’s definitely clutching at straws to suggest Kane’s presence is informing the poor recruitment.
posted on 15/3/23
comment by fridgeboy (U1053)
posted 19 minutes ago
comment by Devonshirespur (U6316)
posted 34 minutes ago
comment by whodunnit (U22710)
posted 3 hours, 48 minutes ago
let him go for nothing and you need to spend 150m to replace him.
let him go this summer and you get 80-100m put towards that fee to replace him.
no brainer for me, if he doesnt sign a new deal by end of season you have to sell him surely
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Give United the piece of the jigsaw they are crying out forIt wont happen, and nor should it.
We are better off doing all we can to keep him, improving the squad and team, make a strong start and hope this is enough to convince him to sign on. Salah signed a new deal well into his last year.
If we lose him for zero then so be it. He'll be 32 and we'll move on.
You'd also have to think that losing Kane = a new project, so it wont be a case of a like for like replacement, it will be changing our system and planning for the future. As Liverpool have shown you cannot just swap out Mane for a very expensive replacement and expect it to work. They have had to change how they play and start over. Its disrupted the whole team.
Sell Kane and its 2 steps back and Project Rebuild. Keep him and we are at least continuing to build on what we have and we have 1 year to make it really work.
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This is something I brought up a while ago talking up the positives of losing Kane, if there are straws to clutch. All the while Kane is here, we're looking to patch over problems, looking for that quick fix to fast track us to glory when we all know that a club of our size can't really do that. The only way, I think, that we get there IS to rebuild from a reset position but keeping Kane happy is stopping us from doing it. If you say to him we're starting the 5 year project from scratch, he'll walk out and slam the door but I do think it's a necessary step to turn us around.
Unlike Arsenal, our squad is massively top heavy in terms of talent. The true trophy winners strike a good balance. Rarely does one man fire a team to a title unless he's superhuman, like Messi. There was a period when Liverpool had one main man in Coutinho. they sold him at the right time and reinvested wisely to rebalance the team. Then they kicked on massively. We didn't do that with Alli, Eriksen and now it's happening again with Kane. At one time or another those three could have fetched at least 300m. As it is, we've managed to get about 17m for Eriksen alone. Sometimes it's wise to sell as much as it is to buy.
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your assuming only an english team would be the ones bidding for him.
Bayern would make sense for eg, can pay the wages, he goes there scores for fun, wins loads.
I think PSG would take him if thy could get Neymar off the books more so since it looks like messi might be moving back to barca.
posted on 15/3/23
But if Spurs can keep Kane for another year, and it gets them out of the group stages of the CL (providing they qualify again) and then get into the CL again next season, then it’s probably financially better for Spurs than any transfer fee they’ll get for him this summer.
I’ve no doubt that’s something Levy will be thinking, then hoping the clubs that would be in for him look at others targets for cf, which leaves Kane with fewer options as a free agent.
posted on 15/3/23
comment by whodunnit (U22710)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by fridgeboy (U1053)
posted 19 minutes ago
comment by Devonshirespur (U6316)
posted 34 minutes ago
comment by whodunnit (U22710)
posted 3 hours, 48 minutes ago
let him go for nothing and you need to spend 150m to replace him.
let him go this summer and you get 80-100m put towards that fee to replace him.
no brainer for me, if he doesnt sign a new deal by end of season you have to sell him surely
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Give United the piece of the jigsaw they are crying out forIt wont happen, and nor should it.
We are better off doing all we can to keep him, improving the squad and team, make a strong start and hope this is enough to convince him to sign on. Salah signed a new deal well into his last year.
If we lose him for zero then so be it. He'll be 32 and we'll move on.
You'd also have to think that losing Kane = a new project, so it wont be a case of a like for like replacement, it will be changing our system and planning for the future. As Liverpool have shown you cannot just swap out Mane for a very expensive replacement and expect it to work. They have had to change how they play and start over. Its disrupted the whole team.
Sell Kane and its 2 steps back and Project Rebuild. Keep him and we are at least continuing to build on what we have and we have 1 year to make it really work.
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This is something I brought up a while ago talking up the positives of losing Kane, if there are straws to clutch. All the while Kane is here, we're looking to patch over problems, looking for that quick fix to fast track us to glory when we all know that a club of our size can't really do that. The only way, I think, that we get there IS to rebuild from a reset position but keeping Kane happy is stopping us from doing it. If you say to him we're starting the 5 year project from scratch, he'll walk out and slam the door but I do think it's a necessary step to turn us around.
Unlike Arsenal, our squad is massively top heavy in terms of talent. The true trophy winners strike a good balance. Rarely does one man fire a team to a title unless he's superhuman, like Messi. There was a period when Liverpool had one main man in Coutinho. they sold him at the right time and reinvested wisely to rebalance the team. Then they kicked on massively. We didn't do that with Alli, Eriksen and now it's happening again with Kane. At one time or another those three could have fetched at least 300m. As it is, we've managed to get about 17m for Eriksen alone. Sometimes it's wise to sell as much as it is to buy.
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your assuming only an english team would be the ones bidding for him.
Bayern would make sense for eg, can pay the wages, he goes there scores for fun, wins loads.
I think PSG would take him if thy could get Neymar off the books more so since it looks like messi might be moving back to barca.
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Are you responding to me? I've said nothing about selling him to an English team. For what it's worth, he won't go abroad. I think you're underestimating exactly what that would mean to a striker to break Shearer's record.
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