Harry Kane

[LongsightM13]

 

[p.taker]

It’s really odd the timing of the lewandowski news. He is the perfect plan B if Kane doesn’t happen.

It is odd. And by odd I mean speculative bullshit. When did logic get completely thrown out of the door around here lol

 

[skillman]

So we've (supposedly) said no to Messi and Ronaldo to sign Kane. Kinell, he must feel wanted!

 

[Gorton_Tubster]

The board simply HAVE to pay up, if they said no to Messi/Ronaldo and no option B.

Whatever spurs want? Just pay it?

 

[Denen]

And clubs walking away from another for setting unfair valuations on their wantaway players has happened time and time again also. We've done that countless times when clubs like yours just see us as a blank check.

I think you're underestimating how bad this looks outside of your Spurs tinted glasses. Modric said in his autobiography Levy went back on verbal promises of allowing him to leave the club for one in the CL multiple times, and said as much recently also apparently, in the context of Kane. Levy has previous for this with several players.

It sets a terrible precedent. If you're a promising young player in Europe, why would you join Spurs? If you become a huge success, make it with them, and they reach a level competing for titles, it all works out and everyone's happy. In the event it doesn't, which as we've seen is much more likely, that player will be denied moves away when he realises his potential and Spurs don't.

This is why you were snubbed by Pau Torres, even after agreeing a fee with Villareal. Why would he join?

You're cutting your nose off to spite your face and you think it's benefitting you in the long run. Clueless. Letting ego and pride blind you, frankly.

You can't use every player turning Spurs down as validation of your opinion on this. Pau Torres turned us down because his boyhood club is about to play CL football so he wants to stay. If we were in the CL too I could maybe see us attracting him but we aren't, so I understand. At the same time for every Torres, there is a Romero who also walked away from CL football and is a superior CB and he joined us because he believes in Paratici's project. There will always be top players who want to join Spurs, not the very best, we need CL football and deep pockets for those, but there will be good players.

There is also nothing unfair about our valuation. Kane is worth 150 million upwards, we are talking about a player who could finish as the highest PL scorer ever in his prime. He's proven at every level. Strikers like Vlahovic are being touted around for 90 million euros who have one single season of scoring goals in a top league. As I say there is nothing unfair about our valuation, that Kane thought we would let him go to another PL club for 100 odd million is laughable and shows how stupid/naive he is. Kane is easily worth 50 million more than Grealish, there is your reference point right there. Grealish won't win you many games on his own, Kane will. Personally I think it's mad you spent so much on Grealish when Kane should have been your priority, but thats just my opinion.

 

[samuelyeboah]

on a side note, there's something very admirable about football negotiators' patience. if i were in ferran/khaldoon/txiki's place I would have lost patience long ago and either moved on or pay the price lol

 

[L4EV]

He must be coming then if you’re rejecting alternatives. I doubt the board of the richest and one of the most well run clubs in the PL are that incompetent.

 

[Username Required]

Kane is worth 150 million upwards,

I'll give you 135 plus odds n sods.

 

[cbl]

groundhog day. roll on august 31st

 

[Denen]

The Son thing is a hypothetical, I think he's settled there for his career. As is the keeping Kane bit.

If anything I was talking about Real. Why does anyone have a gentleman's agreement, if they're as worthless as onlookers say?

Think of it this way, do you trust people who say one thing and do another? Sure. Because you're a smuck on a board, like me, and not someone who handles agents and deals of tens of millions of quid in a tight knit industry.

I joke - but even as a lay person, you can see that one key reason reputation and a person's word matter, is that if you incorrectly rely on someone keeping their word, you might not be able to keep your word to another person. And if that's your career in the balance, it could cost you everything.

Ok cool. I take your point however you are making it sound like the gentlemens agreement was 'sure yes you can leave Spurs for any offer we receive'. Levy would never agree to that or say that. The agreement was clearly 'yes if we receive an offer we are happy with you will be allowed to leave'. The issue is Kane thinks 100 million is a fair/great offer, (Neville's interview as proof of this). Neville actually laughed at that figure and said 'double that'. Spurs will sell Kane if an acceptable offer to Spurs comes in, not what Kane thinks is acceptable. Since when does Kane or any player dictate the amount the club should sell them for?

I think too much is being made about a gentlemens agreement which clearly doesn't exist in the way people are talking about. If indeed there was one, it was much more likely to be as I described, than one where Spurs agreed to sell him for 100 million or something silly.