Harry Kane

Lovebitesandeveryfing said:
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?
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Phoenix900000 said:
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.
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The problem for me is that we appear to be at a standstill. Spurs is a leaky ship, and City aren't much better if half of what TH says on here has gotten out. By all accounts they are still not moving on the price.

That was fine 2 weeks ago but we have reached the point where not signing a striker is materially damaging the team's performance for the season.

How much were the 3 points we dropped on Sunday worth? How much is having Kane in preseason this week worth vs. 2 weeks time? How much is having him available for Norwich worth?

Spending the next 2 weeks knocking £15m off the asking price today is not a victory in any sense if we drop points and Kane is less prepared to hit the ground running.

We'd be doing well to get 4 good seasons out of Kane, and I can't really work out why apparently we're OK with stacking every card in the deck against him in 1 of those 4 seasons by delaying this move to the point where he has no preseason, no time to learn the system, no time to even settle in off the pitch.
 
TheGoat said:
What if the reason for us negotiating the Kane price down was so that we can afford a bid for Mendes?

I’m very reluctant to believe that we are not interested in him this summer.
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Why are you reluctant to believe we’re not after Mendes when there has been an official club statement saying we aren’t interested this window?
 
all we had to wait for the Spurs game to be over, but now feels like all we have to wait for their game against Wolves to be over on Sunday?

but if he does not play against Pacos Ferreira for them, or Wolves on Sunday, thats a good sign imo.
 
leo_citeh said:
Spurs inability to attract a decent striker is the biggest hurdle in all of this.

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And as per fab's recent tweet, inter rejected bids from spurs and atleti for Martinez and his agent says he will sign a new deal with inter!
 
domalino said:
The problem for me is that we appear to be at a standstill. Spurs is a leaky ship, and City aren't much better if half of what TH says on here has gotten out. By all accounts they are still not moving on the price.

That was fine 2 weeks ago but we have reached the point where not signing a striker is materially damaging the team's performance for the season.

How much were the 3 points we dropped on Sunday worth? How much is having Kane in preseason this week worth vs. 2 weeks time? How much is having him available for Norwich worth?

Spending the next 2 weeks knocking £15m off the asking price today is not a victory in any sense if we drop points and Kane is less prepared to hit the ground running.
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Do we know what the delay is? I'm guessing it's both parties not yet budging. C-suite geezers are mostly alpha males (and borderline sociopathic in my experience), so I'm guessing there's ego at play here, too - lashings of it.
 
domalino said:
The problem for me is that we appear to be at a standstill. Spurs is a leaky ship, and City aren't much better if half of what TH says on here has gotten out. By all accounts they are still not moving on the price.

That was fine 2 weeks ago but we have reached the point where not signing a striker is materially damaging the team's performance for the season.

How much were the 3 points we dropped on Sunday worth? How much is having Kane in preseason this week worth vs. 2 weeks time? How much is having him available for Norwich worth?

Spending the next 2 weeks knocking £15m off the asking price today is not a victory in any sense if we drop points and Kane is less prepared to hit the ground running.

We'd be doing well to get 4 good seasons out of Kane, and I can't really work out why apparently we're OK with stacking every card in the deck against him in 1 of those 4 seasons by delaying this move to the point where he has no preseason, no time to learn the system, no time to even settle in off the pitch.
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There's also the little fact that we snubbed Messi on a free because we were obsessed with securing Harold.
 
domalino said:
The problem for me is that we appear to be at a standstill. Spurs is a leaky ship, and City aren't much better if half of what TH says on here has gotten out. By all accounts they are still not moving on the price.

That was fine 2 weeks ago but we have reached the point where not signing a striker is materially damaging the team's performance for the season.

How much were the 3 points we dropped on Sunday worth? How much is having Kane in preseason this week worth vs. 2 weeks time? How much is having him available for Norwich worth?

Spending the next 2 weeks knocking £15m off the asking price today is not a victory in any sense if we drop points and Kane is less prepared to hit the ground running.
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I think it will end up being close to the valuation that Levy wants. I just think City will see the pros of getting Kane now and not bother trying to negotiate down. Don't think they want to end up doing the deal on deadline day and I think Sprus don't want to be there either as they need the replacement in there as soon as he leaves.
 
CityBluez said:
And as per fab's recent tweet, inter rejected bids from spurs and atleti for Martinez and his agent say he will sign a new deal with inter!
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Yep, both of their targets since the very start of summer have been difficult to get, the genius that Levy is portrayed to be is unable to convince top players to join his Conference League side.
 
domalino said:
The problem for me is that we appear to be at a standstill. Spurs is a leaky ship, and City aren't much better if half of what TH says on here has gotten out. By all accounts they are still not moving on the price.

That was fine 2 weeks ago but we have reached the point where not signing a striker is materially damaging the team's performance for the season.

How much were the 3 points we dropped on Sunday worth? How much is having Kane in preseason this week worth vs. 2 weeks time? How much is having him available for Norwich worth?

Spending the next 2 weeks knocking £15m off the asking price today is not a victory in any sense if we drop points and Kane is less prepared to hit the ground running.

We'd be doing well to get 4 good seasons out of Kane, and I can't really work out why apparently we're OK with stacking every card in the deck against him in 1 of those 4 seasons by delaying this move to the point where he has no preseason, no time to learn the system, no time to even settle in off the pitch.
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Could possibly get away with another week-if Jesus can manage to help us beat Norwich by scoring (if selected) and arguably the week after when Arsenal rock up,but by the time of the window closing a few days after Arsenal match if nothing done, well……we are in for a hard season
 
leo_citeh said:
Spurs inability to attract a decent striker is the biggest hurdle in all of this.

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this is the least credible journalist in europe probably

he literally said messi landed in paris and 10 minutes later there were pictures of him just chilling in his house, didn't go to paris until 3 days later
 
If Kane was staying at Spurs he would be tweeting something about it, he is their captain. The fact it’s silent means something is going on. Levy will take this to the wire knowing city will have to pay what he wants come dead line day.

we have no plan b unless Ronaldo would come to us which isn’t impossible in this crazy world.

either way our striker search is going to dead line day which is a bit crap planning. We are also getting our pants pulled down either way as we are desperate for a striker.
 
Nails said:
Do we know what the delay is? I'm guessing it's both parties not yet budging. C-suite geezers are mostly alpha males (and borderline sociopathic in my experience), so I'm guessing there's ego at play here, too - lashings of it.
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It's likely playing out like the Bale transfer. They need their signings in first, and as much as it inconveniences us they're entitled to hold out until they do so.

The big issue is that they seem to be struggling themselves on that front.
 
Blu1 said:
If Kane was staying at Spurs he would be tweeting something about it, he is their captain. The fact it’s silent means something is going on. Levy will take this to the wire knowing city will have to pay what he wants come dead line day.

we have no plan b unless Ronaldo would come to us which isn’t impossible in this crazy world.

either way our striker search is going to dead line day which is a bit crap planning. We are also getting our pants pulled down either way as we are desperate for a striker.
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Has he yet commented on their win on Sunday?
 
Phil Mitchell Foden said:
There's also the little fact that we snubbed Messi on a free because we were obsessed with securing Harold.
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Even if this is remotely true, we rejected to go in again for him because hes been giving us the run around for years. Only now when hes been booted out of Barca he wants to come crawling back, not the player we want at the club.
 
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