Quite amusing watching the spurs fans and media in general get worked up about this. Yep, blame City, surely that's is the reason? City buying the league, city tapping him up, how can Kane do this to his boyhood club?
Well, how can he? Think about it, what would it take? Maybe there are broken promises, a lack of ambition and just too much change and a lack of direction. They've gone from promising under Pochettino to in flux again, and Levy isn't showing any ambition to drive forward a successful club. They are setting themselves up as also rans. Where's the ambition, the plan to succeed? Granted Nuno hasn't had chance to sell that to Kane yet but after so many false dawn's I can see why he's not listening.
Forget City. Sure, am I confident at some point kane's representatives have asked the theoretical question of if he was available, would we bid? But every top player at a club not winning silverware faces this choice. Kane has made his choice it seems, which works out well for spurs either in the form of a big sale or , if he were to stay, promises of huge investment and striving to win.
Personally I think this is playing out as city expect. Opening gambit around £100m, we don't chase players they have to want it.Levy will be Levy, they'll look to save face, ask for more, buy time so he can't face them on August 15th. He'll come back to us to renegotiate, we'll rejig the package with add ons and we'll agree at around £120m.
Levy isn't getting £160m. Let's not forget City can walk away and still have a squad that just won the league.