Harry Kane

[HaalandEffect]

If Kane is off due to a shirt number, one really has to question his fucking IQ.

Hehe, take away the 0. So the striker get shirt nr 1.

 

[not my fault!]

Jesus wants to stay, Bem Brazil has a hold on him.

Pfft… Fazenda is where it’s at

 

[chaddblue]

If Kane is off due to a shirt number, one really has to question his fucking IQ.

I don’t think anybody is saying he won’t come cos he can’t have number 10.. but instead speculating that city don’t feel it’s going to happen so aren’t saving the shirt for him

and before I get dogs abuse it’s not me saying that, I’m reading into what others are saying

 

[OccupiedPalestineBlues]

Nice reply, what was the "agreement".

Well, as you and I were not privy to the discussion between Levy and Kane, neither of us have a scoobie.
However, it’s generally accepted in the media (and notably not challenged or dismissed by Spurs) that Kane firmly believes that Levy had agreed that he could make a move, subject to a sufficient bid, and Kane did pointedly mention the sum of £100 million in the televised interview with rat boy.
Kane, a previously loyal dyed in the wool Spurs man (and boy) has now downed tools in disgust, so it seems that Kane has had his nose put out of joint by Levy not keeping his word.

Like I said, I don’t particularly want to see Kane in a City shirt, I’ll support him if he does rock up but there will be no sleep lost on my part if he doesn’t.

I also suspect that if Levy does renage on a promise given to Kane, and Kane is forced to stay within your lily white ranks, then you won’t have the same Harry Kane playing for you going forward as he‘ll be a reluctant player, a disenfranchised and downbeat man, and he certainly won’t be a force for good anymore.

But, having said all that, Levy’s the longest serving Chairman in the PL, he‘s nobody’s fool and I concede that he may have a trick up his sleeve (Messi rocking up a White Hart lane on Monday for instance).

 

[JPBB]

The picture of Levy painted by many Spurs fans is little more than a rehash of the fantasy propagated by the great Glaswegian bullyboy after he had been forced to kidnap a Bulgarian forward at Manchester airport and break just about every rule in the FA rulebook and meet Spurs' asking price to sign him for the rags. Levy was a tough negotiator, the toughest. The rest of football jumped on the bandwagon and Levy passed into legend as the hard man of the transfer game. In fact he's no such thing despite what 'Arry Rednap says. Back in 2009 the one thing he did not do was negotiate. He simply kept saying "no" but that didn't get the rags to meet the asking price - it was us, City, who did that. It was City splashing the Sheikh's despised billions, the money no-one wants in the game, which rescued Levy from one embarrassing climb down. Without City Levy would have accepted the rags' valuation or Berbatov would have gone for nothing a year later.

The situation is different now because Kane signed a long contract which lasts for another 3 years, but it seems impossible that he should stay at Spurs now. It is highly unlikely that Levy can keep such an asset in the stands and Kane's commitment is clearly at an end. Levy will not sell Kane on the cheap but he has to negotiate and, which helps, City don't expect him to come cheap. This is where what City think he's worth is important. My opinion is that he is worth more to City than JG. Probably not £160 million but probably nearer to that than to £100 million. A deal will be done which owes little to Levy's hard man reputation but which reflects the realities of the situation.

I simply do not see the evidence that Levy is a willing seller. He says, for what it is worth, in the press he is not. You claim that Kane will be unhappy if the deal collapses. Maybe? So what? He’ll have to get on with it. If he really wanted to go he would’ve have signed the contract. And the so called gentlemen’s agreement? What evidence is there that it exists? What did it say? The deal is obviously still probable but it feels increasingly flakey.

 

[kun]

1 down, 1 to go

 

[zeven]

One down, two to go ( kane & Messi)

 

[JPBB]

You have a striker but one who is only worth £160m in the eyes of Levy and deluded Spurs fans. The player is only worth what someone is prepared to pay not what Sir Daniel says he's worth. And once this window goes he will be worth considerably less.
And Spurs will still be making up the numbers in the top ten. With a whopping big debt.

I don’t really understand why City fans say that being given money is the right way to run a football club but borrowing it and paying it back is the wrong way. It must be my Protestant work ethic.

 

[abu13]

I think the first sign of any further incomings will be the departure of one of our players, I am assuming it will be Bernardo.

 

[Bluesince88]

I don’t think anybody is saying he won’t come cos he can’t have number 10.. but instead speculating that city don’t feel it’s going to happen so aren’t saving the shirt for him

and before I get dogs abuse it’s not me saying that, I’m reading into what others are saying

I’m not looking into anything with the shirt number for now. The deal doesn’t look close yet so don’t think you can say to Grealish, a player ready to sing you can’t have that number as somebody else we prefer might want it. If Kane was arsed about the number ten as England captain he’d have priority to choose it surely. I don’t think he’s too bothered. Winning trophies won’t change on what number you wear and his motivation is to win.
I hope.