Harry Kane

According to The Athletic, City offered Spurs the choice to have any of Mahrez, Sterling, Bernardo, Jesus, or Laporte in any potential Kane deal back in May.
 
OrigamiNinja said:
I don't think any of the 3 parties involved have come out of this particularly well.

City - Messed around for weeks/months with what seemed to be the expectation that as we got closer to deadline Spurs/Levy would fold. We could have got the same response a month ago and moved on.
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Completely wrong. The reason this fell down is that Spurs cannot attract a decent enough replacement because they're playing at an embarassing level in Europe and no self-respecting player wants to choose to be a part of that. "Yay, we won a trophy against the best that Latvia can throw at us", that's if they even win it of course. City gave them time but it was clear it wasn't going to happen. If Levy can sell a player for £125M and replace them with one for £40M with the situation there, he'd do it in a heartbeat, as any owner/director should be doing.
 
mccity said:
I'm surprised The Athletic didn't include their names too tbh. They've been riding the Levy train all summer.
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That’s one way of putting it. Levy is a media whore, he gives the rabid pack what they want to hear whereas city say nada. 2 very different approaches. One club is in debt and needs a distraction the other wins trophies and is open and transparent.

I wonder where the real story is?
 
According to some dubious media outlets Kane "rejected" us , which is fucking comical , he would have walked a million miles over broken glass to join our elite squad of footballers , the only rejction was our clubs towards levy's demands.
Kane was worth £150m before a global pandemic but football finances have changed , if you look what Cuntinho went for £140m then Grealish would have been similar money at pre-pandemic values , but his £100m releas clause means we got a £100m "bargain" if there is such a thing.
The main problem for Kane was his dickhead brother agreeing a six year deal with no release clause , getting a gentlemans agreement with a snake live Levy is crass stupidity.
If you shook Levy's hand you would count your fingers afterwards.
 
wolviedinho said:
That’s one way of putting it. Levy is a media whore, he gives the rabid pack what they want to hear whereas city say nada. 2 very different approaches. One club is in debt and needs a distraction the other wins trophies and is open and transparent.

I wonder where the real story is?
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For the sake of my own amusement (now that this deal is dead) I'd like to believe that actually the shirt number thing really was a dealbreaker.
 
BobbyBoy said:
Where have all the "we won't leave him hanging" posts gone? All I see is Kane and Levy taking flak. All transfers involve the buyer discretely finding out if the player will move, once they have his indication they go and find out if the club will sell. This is established practice, Kane did his bit, twice, City let him down. A club the size of City should have known what spurs would take before getting the player to start letting off grenades. They acted either amateurish or naive, if Spurs price was too much the player should have been informed in May. We where told it was "close" less than 2 weeks ago when in reality it was never close. Kane nor his agent have ever been involved I a transfer, the onus was on City to to indicate how well or otherwise things where developing. They either completely misunderstood the situation or just plain had no clue.

I've seen numerous times that players won't sign for Spurs because Levy won't let them go, I'd argue City have come out of this worse. Would the agent of Declan Rice or Kalvin Phillips have their player behave the way Kane did in the knowledge City might just abandon them? You never hear of Liverpool, Chelsea or Utd behaving in such a way, they seem to know if a player is actually attainable before getting involved. City done this Koulibaly last year too. Its poor behaviour.
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Harry never put in an official transfer request.
 
BobbyBoy said:
Where have all the "we won't leave him hanging" posts gone? All I see is Kane and Levy taking flak. All transfers involve the buyer discretely finding out if the player will move, once they have his indication they go and find out if the club will sell. This is established practice, Kane did his bit, twice, City let him down. A club the size of City should have known what spurs would take before getting the player to start letting off grenades. They acted either amateurish or naive, if Spurs price was too much the player should have been informed in May. We where told it was "close" less than 2 weeks ago when in reality it was never close. Kane nor his agent have ever been involved I a transfer, the onus was on City to to indicate how well or otherwise things where developing. They either completely misunderstood the situation or just plain had no clue.

I've seen numerous times that players won't sign for Spurs because Levy won't let them go, I'd argue City have come out of this worse. Would the agent of Declan Rice or Kalvin Phillips have their player behave the way Kane did in the knowledge City might just abandon them? You never hear of Liverpool, Chelsea or Utd behaving in such a way, they seem to know if a player is actually attainable before getting involved. City done this Koulibaly last year too. Its poor beIf we were in for Rice or Phillips we'd pull out
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BobbyBoy said:
Where have all the "we won't leave him hanging" posts gone? All I see is Kane and Levy taking flak. All transfers involve the buyer discretely finding out if the player will move, once they have his indication they go and find out if the club will sell. This is established practice, Kane did his bit, twice, City let him down. A club the size of City should have known what spurs would take before getting the player to start letting off grenades. They acted either amateurish or naive, if Spurs price was too much the player should have been informed in May. We where told it was "close" less than 2 weeks ago when in reality it was never close. Kane nor his agent have ever been involved I a transfer, the onus was on City to to indicate how well or otherwise things where developing. They either completely misunderstood the situation or just plain had no clue.

I've seen numerous times that players won't sign for Spurs because Levy won't let them go, I'd argue City have come out of this worse. Would the agent of Declan Rice or Kalvin Phillips have their player behave the way Kane did in the knowledge City might just abandon them? You never hear of Liverpool, Chelsea or Utd behaving in such a way, they seem to know if a player is actually attainable before getting involved. City done this Koulibaly last year too. Its poor behaviour.
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You seem to know a lot about our dealings. We pulled out of the Koulibaly deal because, like Kane, the other teams chairman is a greedy twat as well as a smartarse.
Watch my lips carefully..."City will offer a sensible price for our targets and pull out if said target is over-priced (in our opinion)". As a result we have won more trophies in the last eighteen months than the entire reign of Levy's spell as chairman.
Twenty years he's led your club and I'll let you tell me what you've won. Ok, over to you.
 
Come on Bobby Boy, shouldn't take that long or are you embarrassed by your clubs achievements over the last two decades? Especially with the divisions top scorer and goal provider, and the genius that is Levy.
 
If there’s one thing players need to learn from the last two years, both Kane and Messi, it is that a gentlemanly agreement is worth shit. If you sign a contract and think you might want to leave in the future you will insert a release clause with exact price and terms.
 
Citizen of Legoland said:
Completely wrong. The reason this fell down is that Spurs cannot attract a decent enough replacement because they're playing at an embarassing level in Europe and no self-respecting player wants to choose to be a part of that. "Yay, we won a trophy against the best that Latvia can throw at us", that's if they even win it of course. City gave them time but it was clear it wasn't going to happen. If Levy can sell a player for £125M and replace them with one for £40M with the situation there, he'd do it in a heartbeat, as any owner/director should be doing.
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I don't believe this at all. No buying club paying £100m+ for a player does everything on the selling clubs terms. Its fanciful at best to suggest we were trying to a deal of this magnitude, with the attitude that we would hang fire for weeks on end while Spurs tried to find a replacement. We might have done something like this with Villa for Grealish but did so knowing that with the buyout clause, Villa couldn't turn round and kibosh the deal.

We have walked away because we are not willing to meet the asking price, an asking price that by all accounts hasn't changed for weeks. We thought Spurs would lower their demands. Spurs thought we would increase our offer. Both wrong.
 
give it to gordon said:
I dont think its poor from City. More like levy knows his player wants to leave. Levy knows City needs a centre forward. Levy wants an over the top price because of this. Levy thinks City are so rich he ups the price.
City refuse to pay over the top.
So levy keeps an unhappy player and loses around 130million.
City dont buy from spurs.
You cant make a deal if one side doesnt want to make one !
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This is my point though, Kane is a transfer virgin, his agent is nothing. City, as the professionals, with a whole team of people working on this for months should have been in the position to tell the player we are no where near here, this isn't happening, don't go burning bridges. Instead they led to him believe it was possible when it just wasn't.
 
TonyColemansbagofapples said:
You seem to know a lot about our dealings. We pulled out of the Koulibaly deal because, like Kane, the other teams chairman is a greedy twat as well as a smartarse.
Watch my lips carefully..."City will offer a sensible price for our targets and pull out if said target is over-priced (in our opinion)". As a result we have won more trophies in the last eighteen months than the entire reign of Levy's spell as chairman.
Twenty years he's led your club and I'll let you tell me what you've won. Ok, over to you.
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That's the way a million transfers that never happened played out. 2 years in a row you have been involved in very public transfers that never had a chance of happening because the clubs where so far a part. If club A is not willing to get anywhere near club B's valuation then it should end with a thanks for taking my call and never get anywhere the news.

And can you all stop with the myth that Tottenham fans think Levy is some kind of hero. We are aware of the many errors he has made. Danny Rose walked the out for free, he turned down 50m for him and he barely kicked a ball for us after that.
 
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