Harry Kane

[Stoned Rose]

When you say you can't compete with our cash, what cash? FFP dictates our transfer budget like it dictates yours. You've seen the response from UEFA when they thought we'd overspent by €67.53c. They didn't want explanations, they wanted buckets of blood drained from our neck preferably.

Here's the difference fella.... Our owner cleared City's debts, & turned his investment into equity. Your owner like others, just loaded the debt on the club, with all the interest & those debts will be paid before you invest in your squad.

That's down to the way Spurs is run, NOT because our owner gives us billions to spend every summer. For the avoidance of doubt, allow me to repeat. Sheikh Mansour has NOT invested a penny into Manchester City Football Club since 2014. Everything we've spent, we've had to generate & have provided certified accounts to these effects.

This is why statements like 'We can't compete with your cash' pisses our fans off. What you've spouted is purely folklore bollocks mate. We merely have a better owner who is totally committed to our club, & not just looking to fatten it up for a future sale. Our owner wants City to be a totally self sufficient success, on & off the pitch.

The fact is that we're one of the best run clubs in world football. What you're seeing now isn't City just spunking hundreds of millions because we can, it's come about as a result of us NOT being able to afford Sanchez, Pogba & Maguire who all ended up at ManUre, who COULD afford the fees being asked. Much of the money we're spending now, is from money we've refused to spend in previous transfer windows, so was in the bank as an ever increasing transfer war chest.

Our management team would rather us go without, than buy a substandard player, just to fill the squad. Where we are now has been over 13 years in the planning, & the scary thing is, there's much much more to come. We're a well run club, not a rich man's vanity project plaything that he spunks his billions on to make him look like a big shot.

THIS is what makes the clubs who keep creating more FFP barriers to stop us, ever more sick with jealousy.

It's murder on the Internet but you'd better not kill the groove.

 

[chaddblue]

hoping the delays and difficulties are around the fact they dont want him being a city player before we play them

Seeing as he almost certainly won’t play no matter which club he’s with, why would that matter?

 

[jimharri]

Fwiw

Fine.

 

[Damocles]

@SuperSilva21 is no wum, trust me. He's certainly worth listening to. Might not be what you want to hear but no need for a pile-on.

Maybe not but his record is "patchy" if we're being generous.

 

[JPBB]

8th? So you agree you're not a top 6 team, cool. You've already been replaced by Leicester and I think that Villa could, sooner rather than later, put you further down.

Maybe. Who knows?

What you can not deny is that Spurs did appear in the top 4 on several occasions.

I say that was in part down to your windfall disrupting the old "top 4"

 

[Mancity1980]

Surely it does not matter what City or Pep or you or Charlie Kane think Kane is worth. What matters is what Levy thinks he is worth.

And it is not clear that, despite what you lot say, that Levy is a willing seller. In the press he clearly says he is not.

I have doubts that this deal can go through. The differences seem massive.

Something is worth only what someone is willing to pay, you’re right if the differences are too big the deal is in doubt. Then you will have a problem, a much more difficult one that we would have.

 

[mccity]

Fine.

I felt the same as you both tbf.

Although this could just lend credence to my theory that Ric is in fact actually the biggest wum of them all. This is the longest con!

 

[blueparrot]

Tough dilemma.

What is best for City?

Kane- badly need a forward.
Bernie- If you want to be harsh JG replaced.
Laporte- Vibes not been great and we are back to worrying about the backline should stones form drop or injuries arise.

Kane for me. We won’t lift the champions league without a natural finisher.

Also, why buy JG when we knew this situation with Kane would likely develop? High stake poker at play

We nearly lifted the c/l last year without a natural finisher, and many think we should have, so it’s possible. Though one would help.

 

[jimharri]

I felt the same as you both tbf.

Although this could just lend credence to my theory that Ric is in fact actually the biggest wum of them all. This is the longest con!

No no no. Gotta keep the gaffer sweet.

 

[JPBB]

Something is worth only what someone is willing to pay, you’re right if the differences are too big the deal is in doubt. Then you will have a problem, a much more difficult one that we would have.

What problem? At the end of August, we have a striker worth something between £160m and 60m (depending on who you believe on here).

He'll have to make his peace and get on with it. And as some say on here, it is now or never. You will move on to the next shiny thing. And he may never get the big move he wants.