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If we are spending 100M on Kane, we may as well throw the extra 50 at Haaland, he's much younger, and it won't require us to drop another 100M in 4 years at the latest when Kane's injuries catch up to him.

It seems the club is planning for now and not what they have done so well for years, in planning for now and the future.
 
Lkzerinho said:
If we are spending 100M on Kane, we may as well throw the extra 50 at Haaland, he's much younger, and it won't require us to drop another 100M in 4 years at the latest when Kane's injuries catch up to him.

It seems the club is planning for now and not what they have done so well for years, in planning for now and the future.
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But is the difference more a matter of Kane being able to fit into the existing wage structure vs Haaland wanting Griezmann-type absurd money?

In which case I'd rather have Kane TBH
 
Funnily enough, I'd prefer Haaland over Kane as I think Haaland will be a Ballon D'or shortlist kind of player.

However, I don't think any are right for us -

Haaland
- Break our wage structure for the next 5 years from the initial £350K per week wage demands.
- Raiola will either move him on within 4 years or we will have constant media circuses and wage increases that will ruin our wage structure for the next 10 years. See Madrid/Barca.

Kane
- Very expensive price tag for someone his age, Levy will screw us.
- Ruins our price tags for future transfers, see United and Maguire.
- Get 5 years out of him? People will be questioning him in 3 years, see Aguero for the last 2 years.

The only problem is I see no alternatives. If we can get Lukaku for £35 Mill he will score goals maybe but I'm not sure what the answer is.
 
Lkzerinho said:
I don't think that's the case. I thought Tolmie said a while back the number was 300K a week
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Well Tolmie says that but all sorts of briefings all over Europe by the big clubs suggest otherwise.

Assuming you can immediately fit his wages in, what happens in three, or two, or even one year? One imagines his scumbag of an agent creating a circus, having him on the cover of Marca and/or Mundo Deportivo.

We all thought Silva and Aguero would be off to Spain after a few years and it never happened. But with this guy and Raiola? No guarantee on any level that we are setting up for the future by signing him now.

Haaland is the Galactico option. We've stayed away from this for a decade of immense success. If the people running the club don't pursue this I trust their judgment.
 
Put it another way - if he really could be had for 300k a week wouldn't the rags be all over him then?

He would be the most quintessentially rag signing ever. Surely they would.

But instead they put it out loudly that they're not in for him due to the wage demands.

One can substitute "Barca" and "Real" for "rag" in the above sentences as well.
 
hazmcfc said:
Funnily enough, I'd prefer Haaland over Kane as I think Haaland will be a Ballon D'or shortlist kind of player.

However, I don't think any are right for us -

Haaland
- Break our wage structure for the next 5 years from the initial £350K per week wage demands.
- Raiola will either move him on within 4 years or we will have constant media circuses and wage increases that will ruin our wage structure for the next 10 years. See Madrid/Barca.

Kane
- Very expensive price tag for someone his age, Levy will screw us.
- Ruins our price tags for future transfers, see United and Maguire.
- Get 5 years out of him? People will be questioning him in 3 years, see Aguero for the last 2 years.

The only problem is I see no alternatives. If we can get Lukaku for £35 Mill he will score goals maybe but I'm not sure what the answer is.
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Raiola won’t move him on unless Haaland wants to. Just look at Verratti, been at PSG for 9 years
 
Lkzerinho said:
If we are spending 100M on Kane, we may as well throw the extra 50 at Haaland, he's much younger, and it won't require us to drop another 100M in 4 years at the latest when Kane's injuries catch up to him.

It seems the club is planning for now and not what they have done so well for years, in planning for now and the future.
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It doesn’t seem like that at all. You don’t know if we will even get Kane so your talking nonsense. We plan for the future but we don’t spend 150-200mill on one player to plan for the future. Honeslty I see us buying a striker for 30-50mill that has potential but is not there yet imo. No idea who tho but might be a surprise like Jesus was
 
Semper aggressus said:
Surely the squad must be more upset at losing the CL Final than having great players added to it to give them a better chance to win even more?
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If Haaland came in and started scoring for fun I doubt many players would have a problem with what his wages are.
Certain players are in that bracket above everyone else, Messi, Ronaldo, Mbappe and Neymar to name a few, he starts banging in the goals and then he pushes himself into that bracket.
Kane would be payed more than 90% of the squad too.
Would that cause a problem?
Doubt it.
Kev is payed a lot more than most of the squad, but no one cares cos he’s star of the show.
I know he’s earned it, but still.
The only way it’d be a problem is if he wasn’t scoring enough goals and not really putting the effort in, which won’t happen cos the lads a hard working powerhouse.
Pay up..
 

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kanovic said:
It doesn’t seem like that at all. You don’t know if we will even get Kane so your talking nonsense. We plan for the future but we don’t spend 150-200mill on one player to plan for the future. Honeslty I see us buying a striker for 30-50mill that has potential but is not there yet imo. No idea who tho but might be a surprise like Jesus was
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Jesus still has potential ...just wish he would get there
 
Not 100% confident he'd fit our pressing from the front, no space behind oppo defence, isolated vs 2/3 CBs so have to drop deep to get involved game. He certainly won't score as many as he does for Dortmund.
How many of his goals are the result of being played through on goal vs Bundes highlines? Won't get that here.

He's a quality player but Pep isn't going to give up a system that makes us control games in favour of getting Haaland on the counter.
If he played for Chelsea vs us instead of Werner I think they would have spanked us, would suit that system perfectly.
 
tolmie's hairdoo said:
In that scenario, Kane is the ultimate box player, coupled with superior aerial ability.

I'm worried Chelsea are quite uncomplicated when they want deals done, off the back of this win.

Hazard chose Chelsea because they won the Champions League that summer and someone like Haaland could be persuaded by similar?

My concern stems from Chelsea having players such as Werner, Abraham and Odoi who could all be useful makeweights, might even be open to playing in Germany.

Kane is less complicated for us because he has made the first move.

I also wonder if Pep thinks Grealish can play as a six, because that info won't settle down.

He certainly has the energy levels and ability to play through the lines?

I remember when Fern was bought, he played far more advanced for Shakhtar and was never perceived as a defensive midfielder.
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Hazard didn't choose chelsea because they won the champions league. He chose them because he wanted to live i london, but also play in the champions league. Chelsea winning it gave them a spot in the following season's competition which they didn't have through league places. That, is why he went there when chelsea won it, not because they won it.

We know this, because he narrated his own transfer saga live.

I've seen nothing at all that would concince me Kane would be an easier transfer to pull off.
 
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