The Harry Kane Team 2017/18

[Citytilidie82]

Set up for life now. Footballing life is short he could get a serious injury and be out long term and his form drops. Wonder what he is getting weekly now 150k?

Says £100k on the BBC, can’t be true ?

Unless he’s negotiated a lucrative image rights deal on the side that the BBC obviously wouldn’t include in their report !

 

[aguero93:20]

Coward,staying in his comfort zone

Understandable really, he has enough problems speaking English without trying to learn a foreign language and as a spurs lad *spit* he probably wouldn't want to play for another English club.

 

[Vienna_70]

What a waste

At least Levy has Reasons to be Cheerful.

 

[BlueMedic]

I'm glad at least. Don't think he'd ever suit us, and rather he be at Spurs than one of the more ambitious top 6 in the PL.

 

[jimharri]

Ah well; at least he has something to look forward to in these next few seasons. Another six spring fade outs. Trophies? Meh; who needs 'em?

#Spursy

 

[JimB]

Fellas.....I get the Ricky Villa thing; the Gore Vidal “it’s not enough to succeed, others must fail” thing; the Spurs hate / ridicule; and the fact that I’m on another club’s message board so shouldn’t expect to see complimentary things written about my club. All totally understandable. And no different to what you’d find on any other club’s message board (other than Rawk, which is an extreme law unto itself).

But I can’t help feeling that some of the posts on here today about Harry Kane are exactly the kind of posts that, 10 years ago, you would have expected and detested from your nearest and dearest neighbours. Perhaps unintentional but they come across as posts by fans who have somehow lost touch with real football and real values.

Mocking a player for showing loyalty to his boyhood club; interpreting his actions as lacking ambition because he hasn’t taken what might just as readily be interpreted as the easy, ready made, less ambitious route of joining one of the giants of the game? It’s surely equally worthy, at least, to believe in and commit to winning major trophies at a club where trophies aren’t a shoo-in?

Especially these days, as fans across the footballing spectrum feel increasingly disengaged from their clubs and the players that represent them, Kane committing to Spurs is more deserving of appreciation than ridicule, I’d have thought.

 

[decmancity]

Why does he deserve appreciation? hes not playing for free and for the love of Tottenham. Hes signed a mega contract that he knows full well means the grand sum of noult if Real come knocking. Levy will do his usual posturing and trying to give it the big i am before once again he bends over and takes the fee and loses their best player (See Bale and Modric) and Kane swans off to sunny Spain whilst Levy banks the 100mil+ and puts it towards the stadium debt.

He knows full well he isn't good enough to play at the top table, he stays at Spurs and breaks Shearers record and goes down as a legend and if thats what he likes then good on him. He will forever be talked about like Shearer, yeah he has the record but won noult (tbf Shearer has a prem title) and thats it.

I am not surprised though, no 'top' English player ever left the prem in their prime and perhaps if they had we might have done something as a national team.

 

[aguero93:20]

Fellas.....I get the Ricky Villa thing; the Gore Vidal “it’s not enough to succeed, others must fail” thing; the Spurs hate / ridicule; and the fact that I’m on another club’s message board so shouldn’t expect to see complimentary things written about my club. All totally understandable. And no different to what you’d find on any other club’s message board (other than Rawk, which is an extreme law unto itself).

But I can’t help feeling that some of the posts on here today about Harry Kane are exactly the kind of posts that, 10 years ago, you would have expected and detested from your nearest and dearest neighbours. Perhaps unintentional but they come across as posts by fans who have somehow lost touch with real football and real values.

Mocking a player for showing loyalty to his boyhood club; interpreting his actions as lacking ambition because he hasn’t taken what might just as readily be interpreted as the easy, ready made, less ambitious route of joining one of the giants of the game? It’s surely equally worthy, at least, to believe in and commit to winning major trophies at a club where trophies aren’t a shoo-in?

Especially these days, as fans across the footballing spectrum feel increasingly disengaged from their clubs and the players that represent them, Kane committing to Spurs is more deserving of appreciation than ridicule, I’d have thought.

You take it too seriously. Both the ridicule and the idea that a contract represents commitment these days. Especially for a supporter of a club whose manager was fluttering his eyelashes at Madrid less than a month after signing a new contract.

 

[Vienna_70]

Why does he deserve appreciation? hes not playing for free and for the love of Tottenham. Hes signed a mega contract that he knows full well means the grand sum of noult if Real come knocking. Levy will do his usual posturing and trying to give it the big i am before once again he bends over and takes the fee and loses their best player (See Bale and Modric) and Kane swans off to sunny Spain whilst Levy banks the 100mil+ and puts it towards the stadium debt.

He knows full well he isn't good enough to play at the top table, he stays at Spurs and breaks Shearers record and goes down as a legend and if thats what he likes then good on him. He will forever be talked about like Shearer, yeah he has the record but won noult (tbf Shearer has a prem title) and thats it.

I am not surprised though, no 'top' English player ever left the prem in their prime and perhaps if they had we might have done something as a national team.

Err...
Paul Gascoigne? Glenn Hoddle? Mark Hateley? Gary Linekar?

 

[mccity]

Fellas.....I get the Ricky Villa thing; the Gore Vidal “it’s not enough to succeed, others must fail” thing; the Spurs hate / ridicule; and the fact that I’m on another club’s message board so shouldn’t expect to see complimentary things written about my club. All totally understandable. And no different to what you’d find on any other club’s message board (other than Rawk, which is an extreme law unto itself).

But I can’t help feeling that some of the posts on here today about Harry Kane are exactly the kind of posts that, 10 years ago, you would have expected and detested from your nearest and dearest neighbours. Perhaps unintentional but they come across as posts by fans who have somehow lost touch with real football and real values.

Mocking a player for showing loyalty to his boyhood club; interpreting his actions as lacking ambition because he hasn’t taken what might just as readily be interpreted as the easy, ready made, less ambitious route of joining one of the giants of the game? It’s surely equally worthy, at least, to believe in and commit to winning major trophies at a club where trophies aren’t a shoo-in?

Especially these days, as fans across the footballing spectrum feel increasingly disengaged from their clubs and the players that represent them, Kane committing to Spurs is more deserving of appreciation than ridicule, I’d have thought.

Do Spurs fans reckon Kane will stick around even if nothing's ever won (Of course Tottenham could easily win a trophy soon enough anyway)? I think he would personally, for as long as Tottenham stay competitive at least.

Also on the flip side and relating to the nearer future, are there any conditions which Spurs fans reckon he could leave sometime in the next couple years? Is there any particular club or amount of money that could swing things for him?
Would it take a change of manager? Or what if next season he shatters all the records and Real go all out for him, for example?

I'd also like to get this in now. Come the end of summer I think most people will have Tottenham down for 5th/6th and they'll end up finishing 3rd at worst. They've got the pedigree of 3 consecutive top 3 finishes and they're one of the most efficient teams when it comes to avoiding stupid results. Plus the lack of pressure will suit them, meaning they can plod along gathering points quietly.