Harry Kane

Vester said:
Why even claim you are a City fan when you obviously are a Spurs fan?

There is one simple reason as to why we dont value Kane that much higher than Grealish. He is 3 years older and have no resale value, something Grealish has.

£100m would make Kane the most expensive 28 year old in history of football, £120-130m even more so. Spurs fans seem to think its peanuts, but its not like someone else is bidding any higher is there? An asset is only worth what someone is willing to pay.
You seem to think Levy holds all the cards, but remember this; Even if City dont buy Kane we will continue to dominate British football like we have done the last decade. We want him, but we are not desperate. Spurs on the other hand have basically nothing to gain by refusing to sell him. You will not win anything anyway, or compete for top4. You would be stuck with a player not wanting to be there, not having any money to rebuild your squad, and his value will only drop. You can either honour your gentlemen's agreement and sell him to the highest bidder, or keep him out of spite and see your club be doomed for mediocrity even longer. But its fair to say that refusing to sell him will make players think twice before they sign any deal with your club. Tottenham Hotspur, the place where dreams of talented football players go to die.
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100-160MILLION % THIS
 
Vester said:
Why even claim you are a City fan when you obviously are a Spurs fan?

There is one simple reason as to why we dont value Kane that much higher than Grealish. He is 3 years older and have no resale value, something Grealish has.

£100m would make Kane the most expensive 28 year old in history of football, £120-130m even more so. Spurs fans seem to think its peanuts, but its not like someone else is bidding any higher is there? An asset is only worth what someone is willing to pay.
You seem to think Levy holds all the cards, but remember this; Even if City dont buy Kane we will continue to dominate British football like we have done the last decade. We want him, but we are not desperate. Spurs on the other hand have basically nothing to gain by refusing to sell him. You will not win anything anyway, or compete for top4. You would be stuck with a player not wanting to be there, not having any money to rebuild your squad, and his value will only drop. You can either honour your gentlemen's agreement and sell him to the highest bidder, or keep him out of spite and see your club be doomed for mediocrity even longer. But its fair to say that refusing to sell him will make players think twice before they sign any deal with your club. Tottenham Hotspur, the place where dreams of talented football players go to die.
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Plus, we aren't getting a prime Harry Kane over the length of any likely contract, seems to be a point many are missing on here.
 
Vester said:
Why even claim you are a City fan when you obviously are a Spurs fan?

There is one simple reason as to why we dont value Kane that much higher than Grealish. He is 3 years older and have no resale value, something Grealish has.

£100m would make Kane the most expensive 28 year old in history of football, £120-130m even more so. Spurs fans seem to think its peanuts, but its not like someone else is bidding any higher is there? An asset is only worth what someone is willing to pay.
You seem to think Levy holds all the cards, but remember this; Even if City dont buy Kane we will continue to dominate British football like we have done the last decade. We want him, but we are not desperate. Spurs on the other hand have basically nothing to gain by refusing to sell him. You will not win anything anyway, or compete for top4. You would be stuck with a player not wanting to be there, not having any money to rebuild your squad, and his value will only drop. You can either honour your gentlemen's agreement and sell him to the highest bidder, or keep him out of spite and see your club be doomed for mediocrity even longer. But its fair to say that refusing to sell him will make players think twice before they sign any deal with your club. Tottenham Hotspur, the place where dreams of talented football players go to die.
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Oouch
 
bluetonium said:
We have to options, seeming as though levy isn't budging.

Wait until the end of the window then cave in, or hope that levy caves, unlikely I know, but either way losing the player's availability for 2 weeks and risking losing out all together.

Walk away now and find another striker.


Levy may be being pig headed and about to lose himself 50-80m, but if he's set on his strategy then doubtful we can change it. Sounds to me like we're awaiting spurs coming back to negotiate, I don't think they will, so we need to act now one way or the other if we want to being in a striker.
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The sensible thing to do, but the club that has foisted mobile ticketing on the fans and fucked up a twenty year old parking system seem not to be too blessed with a great deal of sense. I'm coming rapidly to the conclusion that City are more interested in fans who cough of £1000 a game, rather than fans who spend that in a season.
 
samuelyeboah said:
he's a fantastic player but it's not exactly the deal of the century in terms of value, surely you'd agree that at best he is *worth* what we paid for him. Yes we have to look ahead, but before you can look ahead you have to look at the present! If you have a limited budget spend it on what you need now, not what you'd need in 2-3 years. That's if and only if we don't get a striker. I think if we get a striker then the grealish transfer makes sense and I have no qualms with it. but if we don't end up bringing a striker because we spend a ton of money on grealish then I am sorry, that's bad business
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Grealish will improve us now as well you can tell from his first game he is going to be a big asset for us! The argument of should spent it on Kane first I don’t agree with! We know how hard levy will play hard ball so get grealish done then Kane is the right move.. Kane will get done
 
SkyBlueCanuck said:
I marvel that some posters eat up every spoonful of transfer gossip and create in their own minds a fiction of a daily, hourly even, back and forth struggle between our negotiators and Levy. As if this is how our club does its business.

I may be sorely mistaken, but I have to believe that this deal has been done for ages, months even, and the delay was always going to happen to allow match week 1 to pass by and Levy's deals for new players, deals which themselves may each have been weeks or months in the making, fall into place.

Believing any other interpretation of this story is to believe that City are some levels of stupid and incompetent. And we simply know that this isn't s
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Gabriel said:
If Spurs currently knock on any door and enquire about any player, then the price is going to go up. This deal has been so protracted and as of recent weeks acrimonious, that whatever leverage Levy gains over us, he loses it in the multiple deals he then has to make.
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Which is why the noise out of Spurs he that he is not for sale, even though he clearly is.
 
I think what needs to be realised us that this sounds like a complicated deal is get done. A huge deal like this can't be done overnight and demands lots of work to be put into it. For there not be any alternatives City must be 100% sure they can get this deal over the line. It will get done when it gets done. Am still very confident this will get over the line.
 
I don't think we are in a very strong position to be bartering much on Levy's price. Levy doesn't care if Kane is unhappy, why would he? Its the same thing as we are doing with our players as Pep said they may be unhappy but they have to arrange a deal where we get what we think they are worth or they stay. For me a lot of the confidence in our position is misplaced it's not like they want to sell him he's got time on his contract and he's their star player. Kane is chasing Shearer's record so whilst he might be pissed off for a bit he will soon get on with it. I really think we will have to, "make him an offer he can't refuse". We may be able to negotiate how its paid but what cards do we have to play in haggling on the price? I really hope we have a back up plan if we can't get it done it would be unlike us not to but its a bit concerning that we are linked with no one else.
 
Keeper! said:
You think that Spurs would want Mendy after that game on Sunday? lol
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Or before it. They're not fucking idiots at Spurs.
Tell you something else. Nobody is going to be convinced by this little charade involving Solihull Moors. Least of all Levy.
They know who we want. But they also know who he wants. That's our one position of strength. But there are a number of weaknesses counterbalancing it. Not sure this'll get over the line.
Hey, so long as we get the 40 points to safety, eh?
 
If he was training with the first team for the first time and he was staying, why didn’t they upload the customary “welcome back” tweet with a picture of him?

this is done lads and lasses
 
kalouk said:
I don't think we are in a very strong position to be bartering much on Levy's price. Levy doesn't care if Kane is unhappy, why would he? Its the same thing as we are doing with our players as Pep said they may be unhappy but they have to arrange a deal where we get what we think they are worth or they stay. For me a lot of the confidence in our position is misplaced it's not like they want to sell him he's got time on his contract and he's their star player. Kane is chasing Shearer's record so whilst he might be pissed off for a bit he will soon get on with it. I really think we will have to, "make him an offer he can't refuse". We may be able to negotiate how its paid but what cards do we have to play in haggling on the price? I really hope we have a back up plan if we can't get it done it would be unlike us not to but its a bit concerning that we are linked with no one else.
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Think Levy is worried about the 96m he has to pay HMRC by the end of September..
 
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