I agree.I think it’s done, just giving them time to bring a replacement in and spend the money without having the seller know for sure they have the funds to hand.
I recon the timescale is known too, so everyone will be aware of his first game with us and planning for that tactically.
Nothing has changed in the last month on this one and very little noise apart from the standard comments from Spurs you might expect - pep mentioning Kane was a huge departure from the norm though.
I’m relaxed on this one - it will happen.
I knew about the brother getting the wedding rumours badly wrong, but interesting to hear the extent to which he has messed this up all along the way. It seems incredible to me that a player who is as professional on the pitch could just hand his career to his brother with no other experience.Spurs fan here. Doubt I’m very welcome but thought I’d risk posting in the effort to give some information from what we are hearing from the Spurs side of things.
I’m sure a lot of you are as bored as us with how long this whole thing is dragging out, and how each day a new journalist pops up claiming that ‘Kane wants to join Man City’ is somehow breaking news. Everyone has known that since the Neville interview on the golf course.
I’m guessing you have your own set of ‘itks’ like all clubs, and some are complete WUMs, while some are very credible. Well the most credible Spurs itks have all been fairly consistent on this whole saga:
- Kane wants to leave and only wants City
- The whole thing has been a mess from the very beginning due to the incompetence of his agent and Brother Charlie
- Charlie got completely ahead of himself providing completely fabricated information to City of how much it would take to get Harry out of Tottenham
- It’s widely accepted by both clubs, agents and journalists that Charlie is well out of his depth and if anything, been a complete hindrance to any deal being completed. His wedding stunt made the City side furious, and just plain baffled the Spurs side.
- Tottenham ONLY WANT A CASH DEAL. As you can imagine there are multiple reasons to this. 1) the players City put forward are very unlikely to want to join Spurs in the first palace. 2) on the off chance they do, their wages would have to be matched or even improved to join Spurs, which would then cause a big issue with certain players in our current squad demanding parity. 3) in ‘swap deals’ the 2 clubs often have very different views on the value of players. 4) Tottenham have a new DOF who has complete control of transfers (with the exception of Kane) and is working to a plan with a set list of players, and there are no City players on that list.
- So far, City have not offered a straight cash deal. There have only been proposals and player exchanges plus cash, which have been dismissed out of hand for reasons stated above.
- The last 48 hours meetings between spurs and Harry’s team has resulted in amicable discussions. Harry obviously reaffirmed his desire to play for City and Pep. However the club made their stance very clear, he should be prepared to stay unless City stump up an acceptable cash only amount. His team understand this.
- New contract very unlikely unless specific clauses added (doesn’t take a genius to work out what they would be - see Grealish)
- Unlikely to be anymore public stunts from Harry after the late show to preseason. The public backlash again was something half-wit Charlie didn’t anticipate. Even the FA weren’t impressed after sponsors were getting agitated.
- Good news for us all, some are saying that there has been a deadline put on all of this. City have to come up with the cash by the 23/24th to allow Spurs a week to do their business.
- At the moment City aren’t expected to do that unless they can sell first.
- Everyone has a different opinion of what the magic number is.
Another FYI in terms of Spurs spending and transfer funds.
- We have currently only spent £21M. The CB Romero deal is a loan with option to buy for £42M next summer. Some media seem to be reporting we have spent loads already, don’t get sucked into that narrative.
- Spurs have reduced our wage bill by around 500k pw with our outgoings of Bale, Alderweireld, Lamela, Rose, Vinicius, Hart, Foyth.
- There are also rumours that we are sitting on an announcement (maybe stadium naming rights) that would see us have more money to spend that people would expect. Obviously the reason for delaying any announcement like that is to help negotiating for our incomings.
Take it all with a pinch of salt obviously like all ‘itk’ information (I’m sure a lot of you will dismiss it all). None of it is from me so don’t shoot the messenger. I just thought some of you would want to hear both sides of coin.
Spurs don't want players as part of the deal which is why it hasn't gotten over the line yet. Even Romano has said it on the video with CityXtraI agree.
except 1 thing that has happened is the rumours of Jesus leaving, clubs seemed really interested at the start of the summer but have gone quite the last couple weeks.
I have a feeling Kane deal is done and Jesus might be part of it. This would also explain the no number on his training shirt.
I agree.
except 1 thing that has happened is the rumours of Jesus leaving, clubs seemed really interested at the start of the summer but have gone quite the last couple weeks.
I have a feeling Kane deal is done and Jesus might be part of it. This would also explain the no number on his training shirt.
I'd be disappointed to see Gabriel Jesus leave City. Started with such huge promise and his scoring stats are really decent. However, I don't think it's really worked out quite as expected for him - the argument was "he shouldn't be getting compared to Aguero" etc. With Aguero now gone, the fact we are immediately in the market for a big money replacement tells us pretty much all we need to know about the progress of Brazils number 9 in a City shirt.I agree.
except 1 thing that has happened is the rumours of Jesus leaving, clubs seemed really interested at the start of the summer but have gone quite the last couple weeks.
I have a feeling Kane deal is done and Jesus might be part of it. This would also explain the no number on his training shirt.
Spurs fan here. Doubt I’m very welcome but thought I’d risk posting in the effort to give some information from what we are hearing from the Spurs side of things.
I’m sure a lot of you are as bored as us with how long this whole thing is dragging out, and how each day a new journalist pops up claiming that ‘Kane wants to join Man City’ is somehow breaking news. Everyone has known that since the Neville interview on the golf course.
I’m guessing you have your own set of ‘itks’ like all clubs, and some are complete WUMs, while some are very credible. Well the most credible Spurs itks have all been fairly consistent on this whole saga:
- Kane wants to leave and only wants City
- The whole thing has been a mess from the very beginning due to the incompetence of his agent and Brother Charlie
- Charlie got completely ahead of himself providing completely fabricated information to City of how much it would take to get Harry out of Tottenham
- It’s widely accepted by both clubs, agents and journalists that Charlie is well out of his depth and if anything, been a complete hindrance to any deal being completed. His wedding stunt made the City side furious, and just plain baffled the Spurs side.
- Tottenham ONLY WANT A CASH DEAL. As you can imagine there are multiple reasons to this. 1) the players City put forward are very unlikely to want to join Spurs in the first palace. 2) on the off chance they do, their wages would have to be matched or even improved to join Spurs, which would then cause a big issue with certain players in our current squad demanding parity. 3) in ‘swap deals’ the 2 clubs often have very different views on the value of players. 4) Tottenham have a new DOF who has complete control of transfers (with the exception of Kane) and is working to a plan with a set list of players, and there are no City players on that list.
- So far, City have not offered a straight cash deal. There have only been proposals and player exchanges plus cash, which have been dismissed out of hand for reasons stated above.
- The last 48 hours meetings between spurs and Harry’s team has resulted in amicable discussions. Harry obviously reaffirmed his desire to play for City and Pep. However the club made their stance very clear, he should be prepared to stay unless City stump up an acceptable cash only amount. His team understand this.
- New contract very unlikely unless specific clauses added (doesn’t take a genius to work out what they would be - see Grealish)
- Unlikely to be anymore public stunts from Harry after the late show to preseason. The public backlash again was something half-wit Charlie didn’t anticipate. Even the FA weren’t impressed after sponsors were getting agitated.
- Good news for us all, some are saying that there has been a deadline put on all of this. City have to come up with the cash by the 23/24th to allow Spurs a week to do their business.
- At the moment City aren’t expected to do that unless they can sell first.
- Everyone has a different opinion of what the magic number is.
Another FYI in terms of Spurs spending and transfer funds.
- We have currently only spent £21M. The CB Romero deal is a loan with option to buy for £42M next summer. Some media seem to be reporting we have spent loads already, don’t get sucked into that narrative.
- Spurs have reduced our wage bill by around 500k pw with our outgoings of Bale, Alderweireld, Lamela, Rose, Vinicius, Hart, Foyth.
- There are also rumours that we are sitting on an announcement (maybe stadium naming rights) that would see us have more money to spend that people would expect. Obviously the reason for delaying any announcement like that is to help negotiating for our incomings.
Take it all with a pinch of salt obviously like all ‘itk’ information (I’m sure a lot of you will dismiss it all). None of it is from me so don’t shoot the messenger. I just thought some of you would want to hear both sides of coin.
Spurs have all the power
Spurs don’t want to sell
Spurs know we’ve paid 100 million for an uncut gem
Spurs know we are desperate to buy Kane
Levy is a well renowned hard ass negotiator
Thanks for giving us a very reasonable Spurs view. I think Spurs fans might be surprised about City's wage bill. Footballers wages are ridiculous but City's are not on the Man Utd scale. The players linked to Spurs will be on around £100k pw imo. And regarding City's transfer budget: back of the envelope calc which is all I can do says add Kane and Grealisg fees, divide by 5 (length of contracts) = £50m. And that's already covered by City's sales this window (£60m). Following season we can sell at leisure if needed. I could be hopelessly wrong about the transfer finance!Spurs fan here. Doubt I’m very welcome but thought I’d risk posting in the effort to give some information from what we are hearing from the Spurs side of things.
I’m sure a lot of you are as bored as us with how long this whole thing is dragging out, and how each day a new journalist pops up claiming that ‘Kane wants to join Man City’ is somehow breaking news. Everyone has known that since the Neville interview on the golf course.
I’m guessing you have your own set of ‘itks’ like all clubs, and some are complete WUMs, while some are very credible. Well the most credible Spurs itks have all been fairly consistent on this whole saga:
- Kane wants to leave and only wants City
- The whole thing has been a mess from the very beginning due to the incompetence of his agent and Brother Charlie
- Charlie got completely ahead of himself providing completely fabricated information to City of how much it would take to get Harry out of Tottenham
- It’s widely accepted by both clubs, agents and journalists that Charlie is well out of his depth and if anything, been a complete hindrance to any deal being completed. His wedding stunt made the City side furious, and just plain baffled the Spurs side.
- Tottenham ONLY WANT A CASH DEAL. As you can imagine there are multiple reasons to this. 1) the players City put forward are very unlikely to want to join Spurs in the first palace. 2) on the off chance they do, their wages would have to be matched or even improved to join Spurs, which would then cause a big issue with certain players in our current squad demanding parity. 3) in ‘swap deals’ the 2 clubs often have very different views on the value of players. 4) Tottenham have a new DOF who has complete control of transfers (with the exception of Kane) and is working to a plan with a set list of players, and there are no City players on that list.
- So far, City have not offered a straight cash deal. There have only been proposals and player exchanges plus cash, which have been dismissed out of hand for reasons stated above.
- The last 48 hours meetings between spurs and Harry’s team has resulted in amicable discussions. Harry obviously reaffirmed his desire to play for City and Pep. However the club made their stance very clear, he should be prepared to stay unless City stump up an acceptable cash only amount. His team understand this.
- New contract very unlikely unless specific clauses added (doesn’t take a genius to work out what they would be - see Grealish)
- Unlikely to be anymore public stunts from Harry after the late show to preseason. The public backlash again was something half-wit Charlie didn’t anticipate. Even the FA weren’t impressed after sponsors were getting agitated.
- Good news for us all, some are saying that there has been a deadline put on all of this. City have to come up with the cash by the 23/24th to allow Spurs a week to do their business.
- At the moment City aren’t expected to do that unless they can sell first.
- Everyone has a different opinion of what the magic number is.
Another FYI in terms of Spurs spending and transfer funds.
- We have currently only spent £21M. The CB Romero deal is a loan with option to buy for £42M next summer. Some media seem to be reporting we have spent loads already, don’t get sucked into that narrative.
- Spurs have reduced our wage bill by around 500k pw with our outgoings of Bale, Alderweireld, Lamela, Rose, Vinicius, Hart, Foyth.
- There are also rumours that we are sitting on an announcement (maybe stadium naming rights) that would see us have more money to spend that people would expect. Obviously the reason for delaying any announcement like that is to help negotiating for our incomings.
Take it all with a pinch of salt obviously like all ‘itk’ information (I’m sure a lot of you will dismiss it all). None of it is from me so don’t shoot the messenger. I just thought some of you would want to hear both sides of coin.