Harry Kane

domalino said:
Daniel Levy is never going to agree to a written buyout clause. It's a non-starter. People keep saying they should have put it in there like it's something that (if you even convince you club to give you one) wouldn't completely change the terms offered to you.

So here's a choice for you. You've just recovered from several big surgeries on your leg. You're 25 years old. Spurs want to offer you a new deal, but they absolutely will not entertain a buy out clause. Pochettino is manager and the club you love are going from strength to strength.

Option 1. Don't sign a new deal, earn £21m over the next 4 years as you run your contract down. Maybe you'll get out with 6 months left like Eriksen, when you'll be 28.

Option 2. Sign the 2 year extension, Guarantee £78m over the next 6 years and assume you'll get bought without a buyout clause like Modric, like Bale, like 90% of players. Otherwise you'll get out at 30. Still plenty of time to pick up half a dozen trophies at the right club.


If anyone on here says they'd turn down £57m on the condition you might be stuck for 2 more years at a club below your level (a club you love anyway), they are liars.
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It's a fair point but how much money do people need? He must have ready been a multi millionaire and still on a good wedge on his four year deal. Surgery or not he was and is their main asset. It would be no release clause no deal extension from me regardless of the money. The club would then have three years before they'd start to panic as it entered the last year.

I guess it boils down to your values and what's more important in life. As horrific and sad as it was I used to think that everytime I saw some poor contractor threatened with beheading in the middle East. They knew the risks but the financial rewards were massive. Still not worth the gamble for me.
 
Grealish’s Shinpads said:
No way KDB or Foden leave the best league in the world to play with a bunch of farmers
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Exactly a release clause doesn't mean they "have" to leave it's just the minimum price that a team has to pay. As clubs can be going places one minute and down in the dumps the next due to literally anything, more usually poor off-field business decisions. Holding players to contracts they signed when circumstances were different and promises made is completely unfair when they change so much. I personally think they are a good thing and if the club is any good players won't want to leave.

As far as earning less because of them, I get that but the alternative is getting stuck somewhere you don't want to be and like any job how would you feel if you weren't allowed to leave?
 
decmancity said:
Everyone screaming for a release clause should thank themselves lucky that its not that popular in the UK or the likes of PSG may have come in at some point and paid for KDB or Foden years ago.
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It wouldn't have made a blind bit of difference. Neither would have gone. If either ever wanted or does want to leave City will sell them, with or without a release clause. That's how football works. You can't keep a player who wants to leave just for the hell of it.
 
Didsbury Dave said:
Everyone on this thread talking about press briefings but there's so many pages i cannot find any links to any actual articles. What's been briefed and to who? Can anyone help please?
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i wouldn't bother, head back out and try for that giant perch mate, all piss and wind in here :)
 
decmancity said:
Everyone screaming for a release clause should thank themselves lucky that its not that popular in the UK or the likes of PSG may have come in at some point and paid for KDB or Foden years ago.
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Popular or not they could have still insisted on one. They haven't because they know we won't hold them here against their will, there's no point. Once the heart is out of the door the head will soon follow.
 
Didsbury Dave said:
It wouldn't have made a blind bit of difference. Neither would have gone. If either ever wanted or does want to leave City will sell them, with or without a release clause. That's how football works. You can't keep a player who wants to leave just for the hell of it.
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Completely agree with you, I think some people forget that football players are simply employees that agree to do a job for a specific amount of money and for a specified amount of time. In any other career, there would be all sorts of human rights and criminal issues if you weren't allowed to leave of your own free will unless someone could pay your ransom.
 
Pollocks OG said:
In what better way do you reckon he could have handled it if he wants out that would have speeded up the process of getting him his move? (other than get a buy out clause in his contract 3 years ago)
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Well other than a buyout clause, he should've had a much better representation to work on this move, clearly his brother's advice has done no wonders. Loads of players negotiate their exits with clubs, I'm not saying he would have 100% sped it up, but it would allowed for proper negotiations to take place. He's played it right into Levy's hands. You don't just decide to do a Sky interview pricing yourself, then sit back and expect it to work out, and if it hasn't, just not turn up to training.
 
Interesting from The Telegraph story that he won't put in an official transfer request. The idea is that if he does that, he'll be penalised financially somehow, maybe foregoing a loyalty bonus.

If everyone was in such a rush that's obviously a card that needs to be played. It would add to the money for Spurs but for some reason, they're keeping it back.

My guess is that when City go in with a final offer, Kane will submit a formal transfer request as well.
 
Didsbury Dave said:
It wouldn't have made a blind bit of difference. Neither would have gone. If either ever wanted or does want to leave City will sell them, with or without a release clause. That's how football works. You can't keep a player who wants to leave just for the hell of it.
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Yes. I am aware.

It was just a more general point of we don't have release clauses here for a reason. Clubs dont want to give anyone the opportunity to even try and turn the head of a player.
In Spain it is illegal to not have one if I remember correctly, so the likes of Neymar got 200m clause thinking no one would ever pay that for a footballer. Well here we are.
 
decmancity said:
Everyone screaming for a release clause should thank themselves lucky that its not that popular in the UK or the likes of PSG may have come in at some point and paid for KDB or Foden years ago.
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I’m not pretending to be up to date on the nuances of release clauses. Surely a player has to be interested in the move? It’d be chaos otherwise.
 
Also this friendly they have in the Vauxhall’s Europa conference tomorrow would be ideal for fitness
Spurs rushed Kane for champions league final when he wasn’t for same as league cup last season against us
They have never worried about his fitness before
He ain’t playing because he is leaving
 
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