Harry Kane

[Sam1980]

We will know more about the Jesus situation if he plays or on the bench on Sunday

 

[kaz7]

Reading a lot of nonsense on here this morning.

Let’s get some facts straight.

Spurs have all the power
Spurs don’t want to sell
Spurs know we’ve paid 100 million for an uncut gem
Spurs know we are desperate to buy Kane
Levy is a well renowned hard ass negotiator

Due to these facts we will not get him for less than 150m. That 150m may involve players their manager fancies and we agree to let go.

The longer this plays out the more the price goes up as they don’t want or need to sell. Imagine if we struggle to score in the first couple of games, we could be looking at 200m.

We need this done this week before the season starts or, imho, it won’t happen

Lol, ok then

 

[Churchlawtonblue]

Kun has the best goals per minute ratio in PL history.
Despite scoring the most goals Shearer is only 10th, probably due to playing for Newcastle. Kane is 2nd on the list despite not playing for one of the better teams.
If he plays for City for 5 years he might leapfrog Kun in this particular stat.

This is very true. Just imagine what Aguero's PL goal total would be without all those injuries. Very close to Shearers I'm guessing. Shearer was lucky with injuries if I recall correctly?

 

[LongsightM13]

Spurs fan here. Doubt I’m very welcome but thought I’d risk posting in the effort to give some information from what we are hearing from the Spurs side of things.



I’m sure a lot of you are as bored as us with how long this whole thing is dragging out, and how each day a new journalist pops up claiming that ‘Kane wants to join Man City’ is somehow breaking news. Everyone has known that since the Neville interview on the golf course.



I’m guessing you have your own set of ‘itks’ like all clubs, and some are complete WUMs, while some are very credible. Well the most credible Spurs itks have all been fairly consistent on this whole saga:

• Kane wants to leave and only wants City
• The whole thing has been a mess from the very beginning due to the incompetence of his agent and Brother Charlie
• Charlie got completely ahead of himself providing completely fabricated information to City of how much it would take to get Harry out of Tottenham
• It’s widely accepted by both clubs, agents and journalists that Charlie is well out of his depth and if anything, been a complete hindrance to any deal being completed. His wedding stunt made the City side furious, and just plain baffled the Spurs side.
• Tottenham ONLY WANT A CASH DEAL. As you can imagine there are multiple reasons to this. 1) the players City put forward are very unlikely to want to join Spurs in the first palace. 2) on the off chance they do, their wages would have to be matched or even improved to join Spurs, which would then cause a big issue with certain players in our current squad demanding parity. 3) in ‘swap deals’ the 2 clubs often have very different views on the value of players. 4) Tottenham have a new DOF who has complete control of transfers (with the exception of Kane) and is working to a plan with a set list of players, and there are no City players on that list.
• So far, City have not offered a straight cash deal. There have only been proposals and player exchanges plus cash, which have been dismissed out of hand for reasons stated above.
• The last 48 hours meetings between spurs and Harry’s team has resulted in amicable discussions. Harry obviously reaffirmed his desire to play for City and Pep. However the club made their stance very clear, he should be prepared to stay unless City stump up an acceptable cash only amount. His team understand this.
• New contract very unlikely unless specific clauses added (doesn’t take a genius to work out what they would be - see Grealish)
• Unlikely to be anymore public stunts from Harry after the late show to preseason. The public backlash again was something half-wit Charlie didn’t anticipate. Even the FA weren’t impressed after sponsors were getting agitated.
• Good news for us all, some are saying that there has been a deadline put on all of this. City have to come up with the cash by the 23/24th to allow Spurs a week to do their business.
• At the moment City aren’t expected to do that unless they can sell first.
• Everyone has a different opinion of what the magic number is.

Another FYI in terms of Spurs spending and transfer funds.

• We have currently only spent £21M. The CB Romero deal is a loan with option to buy for £42M next summer. Some media seem to be reporting we have spent loads already, don’t get sucked into that narrative.
• Spurs have reduced our wage bill by around 500k pw with our outgoings of Bale, Alderweireld, Lamela, Rose, Vinicius, Hart, Foyth.
• There are also rumours that we are sitting on an announcement (maybe stadium naming rights) that would see us have more money to spend that people would expect. Obviously the reason for delaying any announcement like that is to help negotiating for our incomings.

Take it all with a pinch of salt obviously like all ‘itk’ information (I’m sure a lot of you will dismiss it all). None of it is from me so don’t shoot the messenger. I just thought some of you would want to hear both sides of coin.

Good post. A great deal of that seems both believable and indeed likely to be spot on

 

[Cellarite]

This is very true. Just imagine what Aguero's PL goal total would be without all those injuries. Very close to Shearers I'm guessing. Shearer was lucky with injuries if I recall correctly?

Shearer had two bad injuries from what I recall. Definitely one - when he was at Blackburn and missed most of/all of England's World Cup qualifying group.

I have a feeling he had a second injury at Newcastle but not 100% sure.

 

[Cobwebcat]

Having read the J.P. Post I think the only way is 120 plus 30-40 add-ons.

That may be possible if we sell Bernardo or Jesus. Without sale maybe 120 is our max

 

[Coatigan]

The most famous 10 in the world just changed his number to 30 because everyone knows taking someone's number is a shit thing to do.

Would be quite unhappy with the club if they did that to one of our players.

Unless he wanted it himself. I agree though. Or our fans to want him gone just so he can vacatenthe number for an incoming player.

 

[Jamo Mcfc]

Is Charlie Kane the sole negotiator and agent for Harry? If so how and why would Harry think it was a good idea to have him managing a deal of this magnitude? What a shambles

 

[waspish]

I agree.

except 1 thing that has happened is the rumours of Jesus leaving, clubs seemed really interested at the start of the summer but have gone quite the last couple weeks.

I have a feeling Kane deal is done and Jesus might be part of it. This would also explain the no number on his training shirt.

Yeah maybe Jesus is top striker and if city offered 100m plus Jesus levy should snatch our hands of plus Nuno would love a striker of his calibre if he losing Kane! Jesus will score 20+ goals no problem if he is the main man at spurs playing every game…

 

[andyhinch]

"Free thought is stamped out" amused me greatly.

I’ve always suspected Ric of using some sort of mind control ;-)