Harry Kane

Pam said:
So you're essentially saying that City are happy to splurge £100 mil on a player that the club believes is suffering from a permanently fucked knee. What level of derangement would that be?
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Well no he’s saying city are hesitant to which is the opposite of happy to
 
Pam said:
But surely if the fitness situation is as bad as you say, Levy would have jumped at the chance to sell for 100 mil+.
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Yeah, maybe, although If Kane gets Spurs into the Champions League with that dodgy ankle once in the next 3 seasons he'll make Levy more than £100m.

And if you think someone will pay up because they did eventually with Walker, would you lower the price or try to extract the maximum you could?

I'll be honest with you a lot of Daniel Levy's decisions don't make sense to me. I don't know why you'd refuse a fixed price on your stadium. I don't know why you'd make a stadium hundreds of millions more expensive to install an artificial pitch you get £10m a year from the NFL.I don't know why you'd decide the first building project you're going to supervise is a billion pound stadium!

I don't know why you'd fire Pochettino, or hire Mourinho, or sack Mourinho days before a cup final and appoint a 25 year old with no experience.

I don't know why you'd refuse to buy anyone when your squad was just on the edge of looking like winning a title for the first time in 50 years.
 
Pam said:
So you're essentially saying that City are happy to splurge £100 mil on a player that the club believes is suffering from a permanently fucked knee. What level of derangement would that be?
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No, he’s saying that someone at City told them they had a strong concern about Harry Kane’s knee, and that is why there’s a reluctance to spend that sort of money
 
HelloCity said:
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Small mind mentality. The real question for Spurs fans is why you cannot compete to win titles? If Kane stays it’s a hallow victory. This time next season you will still be in debt and uncompetitive while the blues will continue to win. It really doesn’t matter to us if Kane comes or not but for you it’s the realisation that you are a small club. No different to all the other jealous teams. Ask levy where the money is to invest? Still it’s better to blame the oil clubs.
 
domalino said:
I can't tell if you're deliberately bringing up a year old comment or not.

If you are, he came back better than I thought he would so far, to be fair to him, but I was correct about him losing his pace completely.

Still think it's an incredibly reckless thing to do, spending £160m+ on a 28 year old with a history of big injuries, but I'm not in charge and it's not my money. I was more stringently against it when Haaland was on the market, but that ship has sailed for this year anyway.

And I think we'll look at Haaland in 3 years time and be devastated he's scoring a goal a game for a decade wearing someone else's shirt.

But if Pep demands him, the club will get him, and for 2 years while Pep's here it'll probably be a good deal, until we're spending £200m on a new striker in 2024/25.
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His injuries are not even that bad tho….I think he had one season where he missed 6/7weeks other Haven been a lot less. Heck aguero was always injured and was a hell of a striker. If he could score even half what aguero did it would be great investment
 
unlikelyfan19 said:
Reading reddit, it's interesting how annoyed other fans are we won't spend the money. I know it's not my money, but I enjoy not being hoodwinked these days and just telling clubs "no".
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It's hilarious.

/r/soccer has convinced itself that we have unlimited money and zero FFP worries so to them, us haggling over £60m is like a billionaire not wanting to pay 10p for a shopping bag.
 
BringBackSwales said:
No, he’s saying that someone at City told them they had a strong concern about Harry Kane’s knee, and that is why there’s a reluctance to spend that sort of money
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Yes but if reports are correct we have already bid 100m. That would suggest we are ok with paying 100m (possibly more) on a player that is known to have problems with his knee (and possible ankles). All a bit odd imo.
 
unlikelyfan19 said:
Reading reddit, it's interesting how annoyed other fans are we won't spend the money. I know it's not my money, but I enjoy not being hoodwinked these days and just telling clubs "no".
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It's funny on there because one day there will be a load of people saying "a player is only worth what a club will pay for them" and then the next day "Harry Kane is easily worth £150m. Pay up or fuck off." And then, to add another layer of contradiction, when rumours come out that we want £50m for Bernardo, they'll say things like "who has £50m to spend right now?"
 
kanovic said:
His injuries are not even that bad tho….I think he had one season where he missed 6/7weeks other Haven been a lot less. Heck aguero was always injured and was a hell of a striker. If he could score even half what aguero did it would be great investment
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Like I replied to the other poster, I don't consider "games missed" to be some sort of magic bullet to dismiss his injuries.

He has a habit of going down over international breaks which means he misses fewer games, but the fact remains he is injuring the same ankle multiple times a season and they're getting more and more frequent.
 
domalino said:
That's not what I'd call looking into his injuries properly.

IMO clearly has a completely fucked ankle. They are only getting more and more frequent, and any kind of contact on his ankles seems to put him out for a minimum of 10 days which suggests to me something is permanently damaged and he's playing through it.

September 2016 Ankle injury.
March 2017 He reinjures the same ankle.
March 2018 Ankle injury again.
January 2019 Ankle injury.
April 2019 Ankle injury.
November 2020 Ankle injury (this is reported as unknown, but it happened after he limped off with after a challenge on his ankle vs. Iceland)
January 2021 Ankle injury.
April 2021 Ankle injury.

Spurs do rely on him, but he's gone through summers like 2019 with no international tournaments and not had a corrective surgery, so it seems unlikely to me that anything can be done to fix it. He's also got a habit of re-injuring it when they think it's fixed (ie being out for 40 days in Jan 2019 then coming back for 2 weeks and missing another 50 days)


I'm sure he'll keep playing through it, but it's not going to get better on its own, in fact these repetitive injuries usually just get worse and worse as a player approaches 30. I do not believe he's going to make it far past 30 at the top level, but....who cares? There will always be world class strikers around and if money is no object we'll get 2 or 3 years out of Kane and fuck him off when he can't produce any more.
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No diffeeent then kdb tbf
 
kanovic said:
No diffeeent then kdb tbf
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I'd be worried about KDB's injuries if he was a player we were about to spend £160m on too.

I think his injuries are one of the main reasons we've bought Grealish. We now have another absolutely world class midfielder on the pitch when Kev is not fit and can be more relaxed about his recoveries as he gets into his 30s.
 
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