Harry Kane | "I will be staying at Tottenham this summer and will be 100% focused on helping the team achieve success."

[jamesjimmybyrondean]

Kane for Pogba is a joke for one thing

You read it wrong

 

[jderbyshire]

I don't buy all this "it's now or never" with the big move away from Spurs.

He could leave Summer 2022 if Spurs are still shite.

 

[UNITED ACADEMY]

Kane or Ronaldo(for free or Pogba swap). Which is he more sensible option

Kane. Because the idea that excites you is we will have Pogba & Bruno servicing Kane for 4-5 years.

Ronaldo is now similar to Messi’s situation, old and gold but they both have huge wages that take a toll on Barcelona/Juventus’s finance. If they will leave, it will be for free signing for club who is willing to take them away to pay their wages. A straight swap deal will be unfair and benefits Juventus more.

If Ronaldo for free then it’s probably Ronaldo I guess. Although he will only offer for 2 years probably.

 

[LawCharltonBest]

I think he will stay at Spurs

But his situation is very interesting this Summer. Imagine if Poch takes him back and plays him with Neymar and Mbappe

 

[UNITED ACADEMY]

No it wouldn't. First of all, there is no guarantee that he will perform until he is 33. Most strikers don't. He has also missed almost 20 matches over the last 2 seasons through injury. And if you are right and it will cost £150 million - and a minimum of £15 mil in wages - probably Close to £20 mil - that means the total cost will be £225-250 million for 5 years of service.

He could win us a title - granted, but so could Haaland - and he is 8 years younger.

His wages won’t cost us because Cavani & Lingard are leaving means it will not be an additional money from what we already have right now.

 

[Haddock]

Regardless to where he ends up. Salute to an all time great centre forward.

 

[lsd]

His wages won’t cost us because Cavani & Lingard are leaving means it will not be an additional money from what we already have right now.

We really don't have the money for Kane or Haaland

 

[JJ12]

We really don't have the money for Kane or Haaland

I can't imagine anyone does this summer

 

[UNITED ACADEMY]

We really don't have the money for Kane or Haaland

Why are you telling me that?

 

[lsd]

Why are you telling me that?

It just gets really boring all these totally unrealistic transfer threads with people just posting absolute nonsense to get more pages.

The Sancho thread last year is the perfect example where it was clearly never going to happen and half the posts where people just saying how many pages now?

Any money we did have for spending this summer will likely be used to cover the Super League fiasco and considering the money we have lost due the pandemic will leave us with crumbs at the most.

 

[UNITED ACADEMY]

It just gets really boring all these totally unrealistic transfer threads with people just posting absolute nonsense to get more pages.

The Sancho thread last year is the perfect example where it was clearly never going to happen and half the posts where people just saying how many pages now?

Any money we did have for spending this summer will likely be used to cover the Super League fiasco and considering the money we have lost due the pandemic will leave us with crumbs at the most.

You can always ignore the thread.

 

[Damien]

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From what he said it sounds like he wants out, but doubt anyone will pay Levy's asking price of £150M+

 

[Devil81]

Do we feel sorry for him?

I do, Spurs looked like a team on the brink of something special a few years ago, Champions league season after season, new stadium, great manager. I bet he signed that last contract confident they'd be winning things, they then get to the Champions league final and he's again thinking this is great. Since then it's been a huge decline and now the realisation he plays for a club which make it near enough impossible to get out if you are good.

Erikson had to drag his contract out and Kane looks like he has the same issue for me.

 

[Lastwolf]

Do we feel sorry for him?

I do, Spurs looked like a team on the brink of something special a few years ago, Champions league season after season, new stadium, great manager. I bet he signed that last contract confident they'd be winning things, they then get to the Champions league final and he's again thinking this is great. Since then it's been a huge decline and now the realisation he plays for a club which make it near enough impossible to get out if you are good.

Erikson had to drag his contract out and Kane looks like he has the same issue for me.

A little bit, but he signed an 8 year contract at 23, with a chariman in Levy that is notorious being tough to buy players from, so he did this to himself.

There's a reason most football contracts tend to be 5 years long, if he'd have done the smart thing, he'd have a 1 year left on his contract this summer or a much fatter pay cheque when they extended him 2/3 years ago.

 

[Jacob]

Harry Kane is 28 years old in the summer - if Spurs will let him go, he will cost more than £100 million. Add to that agent fees and at least £300.000 a year - probably more. So the cost of having Harry Kane for 5 years will roughly be £200 million. After those 5 years his marketvalue will be close to zero as he is 33 years old - even if we renew his contract.

As much as I agree that he is the best striker available short-term, it's impossible to defend spending £200 million on a player who is 28 years, especially after a pandemic which has drained our reserves.

Flawed logic. You have to consider his output. While we pay, for arguments' sake 300k a week, he might be scoring a goal a game. Yes, the re-sale value might be low or non-existent, but the investment has to be related to his potential output. If it's close to RvP level then we're winning the league!

 

[Bubz27]

Yeah, he signed a 11 year contract at 21. That's on him or his advisors.

 

[Rozay]

I’d much prefer £150m for Haaland than Kanye.

Haaland is significantly younger, but he is also rapid, which helps our current counter-attacking favour, and also more of a penalty box striker, rather than some sort of pseudo midfielder. One of the issues we have is players not occupying the right areas, unless Cavani is playing. I see Haaland as more suited to this role. He won’t be trying to play as a 10. He’ll be in the box. And when we want to sit deep - he’d be devastating on the counter. Haaland suits us better than Kane and Kane suits City better than us.

Kane will get us more goals for sure, but he’d also take Bruno’s penalties off him so the net gain won’t be THAT much from a Cavani or a Martial of last season.

 

[Mike Smalling]

Do we feel sorry for him?

I do, Spurs looked like a team on the brink of something special a few years ago, Champions league season after season, new stadium, great manager. I bet he signed that last contract confident they'd be winning things, they then get to the Champions league final and he's again thinking this is great. Since then it's been a huge decline and now the realisation he plays for a club which make it near enough impossible to get out if you are good.

Erikson had to drag his contract out and Kane looks like he has the same issue for me.

Not really. He should know that Spurs would be unlikely to sustain their peak, and that Levy would charge a fortune for him with many years left on his contract - especially from potential PL buyers. For a player of his quality and in his situation, I genuinely don't understand signing a contract that long. I know players want to guard themselves financially against the risk of a long-term injury, but on the other hand they would have much more leverage and options available to them if they signed shorter deals.

The Eriksen example is a good one. He let his contract almost run down and forced the hand of Levy, when he wanted a move.

 

[Paranoid Android]

I’d much prefer £150m for Haaland than Kanye.

We should pay whatever it takes to get Kanye.

 

[Pickle85]

Do we feel sorry for him?

I do, Spurs looked like a team on the brink of something special a few years ago, Champions league season after season, new stadium, great manager. I bet he signed that last contract confident they'd be winning things, they then get to the Champions league final and he's again thinking this is great. Since then it's been a huge decline and now the realisation he plays for a club which make it near enough impossible to get out if you are good.

Erikson had to drag his contract out and Kane looks like he has the same issue for me.

Yeah, I do a bit. In hindsight it's easy to say that he should have made a better decision or been better advised (and yes, he should have) but Spurs seemed on the brink of something special (for the club) and I think there's something really quite admirable in his wanting to do it with them. There's very little loyalty in football these days so it's kind of refreshing when players go down this road. That said, yeah, bad decision for his career, ultimately.

 

[UNITED ACADEMY]

I’d much prefer £150m for Haaland than Kanye.

Haaland is significantly younger, but he is also rapid, which helps our current counter-attacking penchant, and also more of a penalty box striker, rather than some sort of pseudo midfielder. One of the issues we have is players not occupying the right areas, unless Cavani is playing. I see Haaland as more suited to this role. He won’t be trying to play as a 10. He’ll be in the box. And when we want to sit deep - he’d be devastating on the counter. Haaland suits us better than Kane and Kane suits City better than us.

Kane will get us more goals for sure, but he’d also take Bruno’s penalties off him so the net gain won’t be THAT much from a Cavani or a Martial of last season.

Kane will not just score goals, he will score assists. Kane is different type of striker to Haaland, Kane is a more complete package striker like RVP and Benzema. If we only looking at age, the easy decision will be Haaland as he is more suitable for long term. However, in tactical point of view, Kane is much more suitable in our current/next season squad than Haaland. Kane will score more goals from Pogba & Bruno's services and at the same time he will score assists by supplying services to Martial, Rashford & Greenwood meaning he can improve Martial, Greenwood & Rashford goal scoring record on the pitch.

 

[Champ]

We should pay whatever it takes to get Kanye.

Can he play on the right though??

 

[Rozay]

Kane will not just score goals, he will score assists. Kane is different type of striker to Haaland, Kane is a more complete package striker like RVP and Benzema. If we only looking at age, the easy decision will be Haaland as he is more suitable for long term. However, in tactical point of view, Kane is much more suitable in our current/next season squad than Haaland. Kane will score more goals from Pogba & Bruno's services and at the same time he will score assists by supplying services to Martial, Rashford & Greenwood meaning he can improve Martial, Greenwood & Rashford goal scoring record on the pitch.

I know his strengths, but we need Haaland’s penalty box domination rather than Kane’s creativity. Before we even consider the age difference.

 

[UpWithRivers]

If he wants to win something then he will need to go to PSG, Real Madrid, City, Barca or Bayern. Makes sense Pochettino would go in for him -
Mbappe----Kane----Neymar would be some forward line.

 

[UNITED ACADEMY]

A football man should know Spurs need a rebuild. They need minimum 4 to 5 new good and talented players and depends on who they bought, they might need time to develop. If Levy does not have money to provide those players then he's better being smart and willing to let go his asset to get the money to rebuild. That asset would be Harry Kane.

 

[duffer]

Chelsea could do with him. Would be worth whatever it might cost just for the meltdown.

 

[UNITED ACADEMY]

I know his strengths, but we need Haaland’s penalty box domination rather than Kane’s creativity. Before we even consider the age difference.

What are you talking about mate? Kane is also penalty box domination. He scores 21 league goals so far this season and proven before he could score 25+ or even 30 league goals per season. Haaland relies on services, the issue why Kane is more suitable than Haaland is because Rashford, Greenwood & Martial are goal scorers means their first instinct most of the time will be shooting not passing/crossing to Haaland.

 

[thegregster]

Well he will be company for Phil Jones in the medical room I suppose

He has played 30 games out of 33 in the PL this season.

The most league games he has missed in a season is 10.

If he went to a big club that gave him a rest now and then he should be good for another 3-4 years at his peak. Then maybe go and to be another Benzema/Cavani with an Indian summer.

 

[CM]

Do we feel sorry for him?

I do, Spurs looked like a team on the brink of something special a few years ago, Champions league season after season, new stadium, great manager. I bet he signed that last contract confident they'd be winning things, they then get to the Champions league final and he's again thinking this is great. Since then it's been a huge decline and now the realisation he plays for a club which make it near enough impossible to get out if you are good.

Erikson had to drag his contract out and Kane looks like he has the same issue for me.

Kane probably shouldn't have signed such a long-term deal if he didn't want to be tied to Spurs this long. A lot can change in a very short time in football.

I think it might be a bit easier for him to push for a move next season when there's 2 years left on his deal. As things stand Spurs have every right to eke out every penny they can get for Kane.

 

[Widow]

Didn't Mason just say they are 5 years behind City? That would have gone down like a fart in a spacesuit with Kane!

I'd try and sign him, he's a proven Premier league goal/assist machine.

The trouble with Haaland is we'd constantly been looking over our shoulders waiting for him to want his next move.

 

[Shark]

As Keano said I think Kane would fancy a move to United. Rather we can afford him is another story, especially with us still needing a RW and potentially a DM.

 

[davbon]

Kane will not just score goals, he will score assists. Kane is different type of striker to Haaland, Kane is a more complete package striker like RVP and Benzema. If we only looking at age, the easy decision will be Haaland as he is more suitable for long term. However, in tactical point of view, Kane is much more suitable in our current/next season squad than Haaland. Kane will score more goals from Pogba & Bruno's services and at the same time he will score assists by supplying services to Martial, Rashford & Greenwood meaning he can improve Martial, Greenwood & Rashford goal scoring record on the pitch.

Exactly this. If we in a dream world would get Kane in the summer, I am sure he would not only be that vocal point that Cavani has shown to be when he plays, but he would also set up Bruno, Rashford and Greenwood much more, than e.g. Cavani or Martial do.

He has 21 goals and 13 assist in the PL alone in an average Spurs side where him and Son are the most prolific players oppositions need to cover. Put Kane in this United side and I think he could have an even bigger impact than RVP.

 

[SATA]

Well Harry, throw in a transfer request then

 

[Ali Dia]

He has played 30 games out of 33 in the PL this season.

The most league games he has missed in a season is 10.

If he went to a big club that gave him a rest now and then he should be good for another 3-4 years at his peak. Then maybe go and to be another Benzema/Cavani with an Indian summer.

We should be the last club he goes to so!

 

[sun_tzu]

Kane probably shouldn't have signed such a long-term deal if he didn't want to be tied to Spurs this long. A lot can change in a very short time in football.

I think it might be a bit easier for him to push for a move next season when there's 2 years left on his deal. As things stand Spurs have every right to eke out every penny they can get for Kane.

Could see him doing an RVP and moving somewhere in a couple of years - will have a year left on his contract and spurs would probably at that point rather cash in - he would be 30 years old

 

[groovyalbert]

Hard to feel too sorry for him. No idea why he signed a contract with them that essentially locked him down for his peak years.

I mean, it's fecking Spurs at the end of the day. Unless he wins trophies, he won't be considered one of the best to have played in the league.

Le Tissier.2 - a nice side-note to the ones people really talk about.

 

[Nou_Camp99]

He's priced himself out of a move anywhere in my opinion. Nobody is touching him with the fees Levy would ask for. Only has himself to blame if he's there now until the back end of his contract.

 

[adexkola]

Hard to feel too sorry for him. No idea why he signed a contract with them that essentially locked him down for his peak years.

I mean, it's fecking Spurs at the end of the day. Unless he wins trophies, he won't be considered one of the best to have played in the league.

Le Tissier.2 - a nice side-note to the ones idiots really talk about.

Fixed.

 

[cyberman]

He's priced himself out of a move anywhere in my opinion. Nobody is touching him with the fees Levy would ask for. Only has himself to blame if he's there now until the back end of his contract.

This is all a bluff. He likes being a big fish in a small pond and only says this type of nonsense every once in a while to pretend hes a winner.
He knows hecant leave, or doesnt want to leave, so out comes the hardened winner spiel

 

[adexkola]

Do we feel sorry for him?

I do, Spurs looked like a team on the brink of something special a few years ago, Champions league season after season, new stadium, great manager. I bet he signed that last contract confident they'd be winning things, they then get to the Champions league final and he's again thinking this is great. Since then it's been a huge decline and now the realisation he plays for a club which make it near enough impossible to get out if you are good.

Erikson had to drag his contract out and Kane looks like he has the same issue for me.

Of course you can emphasize with him, he signed the contract in good faith and with Spurs seemingly on the up. That said it's not a hopeless situation. If Levy doesn't grant him a transfer abroad after his years of service to the club Kane could always play dirty.

And regardless of what idiots think, trophies or no trophies he'll be remembered by knowledgeable fans, as well as players and coaches, as one of the best strikers to grace the PL. He's had a fantastic career to date.