Harry Kane

decmancity said:
Haaland may have 12 years or 18mths before Raiola gets a move to Madrid for him, nobody knows.

Football is a business and we have Pep, is Pep going to be here for 12 years? I doubt it.

Pep may see Kane as an immediate impact and think, lets go out and win the lot for 3 years with Kane at the top and then thats me done.

The club have to look beyond Pep of course but they also owe it to him to give him the tools to continue winning.

In 3 years there will be a new Haaland, in fact he may already be here. Liam Delap.
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Crazy how Delap is spoken of being this level. Let’s let him develop. Haaland as great as he is, is still a risk. Kane is a guarantee
 
Bluesince88 said:
Crazy how Delap is spoken of being this level. Let’s let him develop. Haaland as great as he is, is still a risk. Kane is a guarantee
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I don't really think Haaland is a risk.

Clearly has the physical attributes. Phenomenal finishing technique at a top league.

That's going to translate anywhere, to any other league. I would blame a team if they couldn't integrate Haaland's characteristics.
 
WallyA said:
I don't really think Haaland is a risk.

Clearly has the physical attributes. Phenomenal finishing technique at a top league.

That's going to translate anywhere, to any other league. I would blame a team if they couldn't integrate Haaland's characteristics.
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A risk compared to Kane who scores for fun in this country. Werner was great in Germany. I agree that I think Haaland would adapt anywhere and be world class however it is still a risk as we currently don’t know.
 
Bluesince88 said:
A risk compared to Kane who scores for fun in this country. Werner was great in Germany. I agree that I think Haaland would adapt anywhere and be world class however it is still a risk as we currently don’t know.
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Fair enough. With Werner though, Leipzig fans did warn Chelsea about how a certain style of play was needed to get the most from him. He plays almost more like a winger than a striker.
 
Wretched Vengeance said:
Too much noise around this transfer where we are concerned, in my opinion.

And that is why I don't think we are interested.

It's not normally how we conduct business.
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Exactly the opposite. After all the speculation over the last few weeks if we weren’t in for him we would have briefed the City journos. If we walk away from this deal or we know it’s off then the City journos will write about it.
 
Matt.D said:
Exactly the opposite. After all the speculation over the last few weeks if we weren’t in for him we would have briefed the City journos. If we walk away from this deal or we know it’s off then the City journos will write about it.
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Every single post is speculation. I think there's too much noise. You don't.

No one has a clue - no one.

Not too sure how often we distance ourselves from potential targets. I'd imagine we use the media just like everyone else - sporting or otherwise - to our potential advantage.

An open mind is probably the best course of action.

Not definitive statements of 'I know better.'
 
Wretched Vengeance said:
Every single post is speculation. I think there's too much noise. You don't.

No one has a clue - no one.

Not too sure how often we distance ourselves from potential targets. I'd imagine we use the media just like everyone else - sporting or otherwise - to our potential advantage.

An open mind is probably the best course of action.

Not definitive statements of 'I know better.'
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This is why I’m going to avoid the transfer forum for a while! That whole statement is a crock of shit, masquerading as a sensible post! Absolute nonsense!
 
Wretched Vengeance said:
Every single post is speculation. I think there's too much noise. You don't.

No one has a clue - no one.

Not too sure how often we distance ourselves from potential targets. I'd imagine we use the media just like everyone else - sporting or otherwise - to our potential advantage.

An open mind is probably the best course of action.

Not definitive statements of 'I know better.'
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What I know is that we have distanced ourselves via the press previously from players we either had no interest in when there are incessant daily reports of our interest or when we’ve walked away from deals for players we were interested in.

Obviously we don’t do that every time we are linked with someone in an article but Kane has been non stop speculation for weeks on the back of him stating he wants to leave and calling city the best team in the world and saying De Bruyne is the 1 player he’d love to play with.

It’s not an ‘I know better’ but you would have to be very naive to think City have no interest in signing Harry Kane at this stage tbh.
 
Matt.D said:
What I know is that we have distanced ourselves via the press previously from players we either had no interest in when there are incessant daily reports of our interest or when we’ve walked away from deals for players we were interested in.

Obviously we don’t do that every time we are linked with someone in an article but Kane has been non stop speculation for weeks on the back of him stating he wants to leave and calling city the best team in the world and saying De Bruyne is the 1 player he’d love to play with.

It’s not an ‘I know better’ but you would have to be very naive to think City have no interest in signing Harry Kane at this stage tbh.
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You'd be naive to think 'I know better' was aimed just at you.

I am still of the opinion there is too much speculation.

But that is not to say I wouldn't be interested in Harry Kane a City. Sensational player.
 
racecar said:
There was a lot of noise when we signed Sterling, KDB and Mahrez. We were linked to all of them for weeks; months in Mahrez’s case!
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About 18 months in Mahrez's case :) Haggling over the original 90 million fee Leicester wanted.

It's an opinion - on this particular footballer. Nothing else.

Plenty of singings have been kept under the radar.
 
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Matt.D said:
What I know is that we have distanced ourselves via the press previously from players we either had no interest in when there are incessant daily reports of our interest or when we’ve walked away from deals for players we were interested in.

Obviously we don’t do that every time we are linked with someone in an article but Kane has been non stop speculation for weeks on the back of him stating he wants to leave and calling city the best team in the world and saying De Bruyne is the 1 player he’d love to play with.

It’s not an ‘I know better’ but you would have to be very naive to think City have no interest in signing Harry Kane at this stage tbh.
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We also have distanced ourselves as part of negotiations, when the price is too high. So not distancing ourselves could well mean we aren't at it at all. What we haven't done, is gone and distanced ourselves from every single player linked with us, so there is just as much chance, if not more, that not coming out denying speculation means we aren't interested, than that we are.

Transfer window mate, anything can mean anything. Most often, we make it fit what we want it to mean.

Fyi I'm not really arguing we arent interested in Kane, just that not publicly claiming so doesn't mean we are.
 
Coatigan said:
We also have distanced ourselves as part of negotiations, when the price is too high. So not distancing ourselves could well mean we aren't at it at all. What we haven't done, is gone and distanced ourselves from every single player linked with us, so there is just as much chance, if not more, that not coming out denying speculation means we aren't interested, than that we are.

Transfer window mate, anything can mean anything. Most often, we make it fit what we want it to mean.

Fyi I'm not really arguing we arent interested in Kane, just that not publicly claiming so doesn't mean we are.
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In this situation, not distancing ourselves from X might help in a negotiation for Y
 
Tb1981 said:
Harry Kane wants to win trophies and we need a forward.
In the last 4 years domestically we have won 8 of the 12 trophies available (including two doubles and a treble)
He’s coming People don’t think Antonio conte will stop that
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There's no doubt he wants to leave and we want him but he's got a long contract at Spurs and Daniel Levy is one of the most difficult character's to negotiate with in football, he can't be trusted or reasoned with like most people.

Jean-Michel Aulas (Olympique Lyonnais president, (on the negotiations to buy goalkeeper Hugo Lloris) in 2012:
"We have had people speaking all night with Daniel Levy. He talks a lot and goes back on what we've agreed in writing...It's been very, very difficult. I've got 25 years of experience as a president of a club and it's our 16th participation in a European competition in a row. But this is very rare in the football world. The negotiation with the Tottenham directors has been the hardest I have ever had to undergo in these 25 years. We had email exchanges which have been contradicted, so that's made it very complicated. It's difficult. The Tottenham board's theory is to explain that the economic market is very hard and so we have to get used to renegotiating. We've been negotiating all night. The first negotiation was at the start of the window, about a month-and-a-half ago, and then nothing for about a month-and-a-half. The negotiation then picked up again about a week ago."
 
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