Harry Kane

[mosssideblue]

Gave up at Tier 0 , nonsense.

It got worse after that. So many toys on the floor

 

[mattyb]

Anymore updates on the meeting tomorrow mattyb?

No mate, I’m not likely to get anything more from the lass who told me about the meeting. She’s part of a team of people who work in a central admin function, she won’t have anything to do with meeting minutes

 

[mosssideblue]

This feels like we walked into a car showroom and expressed interest in a car that no one else wanted at that price. The dealer then ratchets the price up and yet we’re still hanging around the showroom . Why?

Because that's the only car we want

 

[OrigamiNinja]

According to Lewandowski, Bayern want over £100 million for him and he turns 33 in 2 days time - Levy must be working for Bayern as well!

Bayern arent getting £100m for him. Theres probably 2 or 3 clubs in world football who can afford £100m transfers and none of them are paying it for a 33 year old. I would take him at City for half that figure.

 

[hihosilva]

No mate, I’m not likely to get anything more from the lass who told me about the meeting. She’s part of a team of people who work in a central admin function, she won’t have anything to do with meeting minutes

OK cheers. From what you & Tolmie's hairdoo are saying it does sound like today could be a big day in negotiations.

 

[mosssideblue]

33 next week but I've not seen anywhere that he wants to leave.

Nearly 34 then

 

[Pablo ZZZ Peroni]

I am reading a report by Paul Hirst, whom, I consider as Tier 0 for Man City, saying that in order to purchase Harry Kane, Man City will have to sell a player first.

This seems to be now Manchester City's first way of telling us that they are tracking back.

As things stand, our last non release clause signing is Riyad Mahrez in summer of 2018.

For our supposed expertise at football operations, that seems like a damning indictment on recruitment.

Why are deals falling down because we cannot pay the extra 15M or so? Ok and if the deals are not going through, where is that money actually going? We still have gaping round holes in the squad being filled up by Guardiola with square pegs.

If the board knew that they needed to sell someone to finance both the deals, why was the Jack Grealish deal prioritised over signing someone like Kane who was the only missing piece in our armor, in terms of offense?

I want to believe that Khaldoon is not just an empty vessel making a lot of noise in his post season reviews but at this moment, 7 windows without a LB, few more without an athletic DM and 5 years since signing a CF reeks to me of the same.

Yep, if Kane was the absolute priority (he is) logically you sort that deal first. However, there was an expiry date on the Grealish release cause so we had to act when we did.

The Dias release clause was €92mil and that's why initially we wouldn't go near him.Then Benfica who were short of money anyway got knocked-out in the CL qualifiers and missed out on the big paydays for group stage onwards.

Listen to the Khaldoon interview again. This windows dealings were always predicated on wheeling and dealing in a very difficult market but moving on players - Bernie, Jesus etc. But the very difficult market is worse than that - it's almost dead due no one having any money. No doubt the last week will be busy though.

Why should we have bought a striker, say, 2 years ago when Kun was still firing and Jesus hadn't been written off?

 

[DrBlueBob]

I am reading a report by Paul Hirst, whom, I consider as Tier 0 for Man City, saying that in order to purchase Harry Kane, Man City will have to sell a player first.

This seems to be now Manchester City's first way of telling us that they are tracking back.

As things stand, our last non release clause signing is Riyad Mahrez in summer of 2018.

For our supposed expertise at football operations, that seems like a damning indictment on recruitment.

Why are deals falling down because we cannot pay the extra 15M or so? Ok and if the deals are not going through, where is that money actually going? We still have gaping round holes in the squad being filled up by Guardiola with square pegs.

If the board knew that they needed to sell someone to finance both the deals, why was the Jack Grealish deal prioritised over signing someone like Kane who was the only missing piece in our armor, in terms of offense?

I want to believe that Khaldoon is not just an empty vessel making a lot of noise in his post season reviews but at this moment, 7 windows without a LB, few more without an athletic DM and 5 years since signing a CF reeks to me of the same.

Whilst I understand where you are coming from, I would urge you to take a step back and see where we are as a club and maybe have a sneaky peek at what we have achieved.

Unprecedented levels of success, the likes of which I could only dream of when I was getting taunted as we were subjected to endless replays of Ricky Villa waltzing past our defence to rip my heart out.

30 fucking years until that was purged from my soul.

I dreamed of having a single solitary FA Cup run or perhaps, (dare to dream) a League Cup triumph, and yet here we are; the dominant team in England and a baw's hair away from being champions of Europe and improving in the meanwhile.

It is not for me to tell you how to feel as a fan but I, for one, am supremely happy with how our club is being managed and trust our owners implicitly.

Setting aside any allegiances, I would venture to suggest that any football fan would happily take our success over the past decade rather than any other club.

 

[DrBlueBob]

Nearly 34 then

28!!!

 

[Hart of the Matter]

Genuine question. Why is oil money dirty but hedge or investment fund money clean? Seems the wrong way round to me?