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We could afford Kane FFP wise if they were willing to get the fee in instalments but I doubt Levy would be interested in that.
That isn't how FFP, budgets or accounting practices in football works.

Where has this come from?

Nobody would pay transfer fee plus £30m per year
Exactly, it has to be nonsense. He is on 200k, Bayern would probably offer 400k at a push, we would match that I imagine.
 

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Not for those wages. Ridiculous.
Ridiculous player though.

Doubt the wages are true, but arguably the best player in the league as well as arguably the best striker in the world, he's coming in as any clubs highest paid player.

I would have no qualms in this being a £200million fee and wages level transfer over a 4 year contract, with minimal expectations for recouping anything by way of sell on fees.

And it would be fantastic value.
 

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He wants almost 600k a week?
So this is how it goes.

We now panic and enter deep negotiations with Spurs.

We play back and forth all summer.

In the mean time Højlund signs for PSG relatively quickly in the background.

We reach an impasse with Spurs with a week to go of the window.

We flounder and panic probably throw close to 100m for Mouani or Ramos, still only have that player as a striker and he struggles to make an immediate impact leaving us with still the need of a no.1 striker.
Oh good god. :boring:
 

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Please, like Bayern would ever pay him that much. Someone's making up salary demands.
Sure, let’s believe the bits of the story we like and dismiss the bits we’re not keen on.

If we accept the fact that he’s going to be for sale, then we would have to believe the same journos (who have seemingly all been briefed the same thing) about his wage demands.

On that basis, he can absolutely feck off.
 

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Yeah, I too would be worried about the best striker in EPL history ruining what would otherwise be a team with world-class scoring abilities. I'd hate it if he got in the way of the 3 goals Martial is going to score next season.
Well done on missing the point. I’m actually referring to the team we’re potentially building. You can’t be the brightest if you think we’re planning on going into the season without buying a striker.
 

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We could afford Kane FFP wise if they were willing to get the fee in instalments but I doubt Levy would be interested in that.
That's not the issue. We need to sell players and the Glazers need to take advantage of the provision in the rules that allows them to invest in the club a certain amount that'll be allowable as losses. They haven't ever done that so now would be the great time to do it as a parting gift.
 

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Hojlund makes much more sense coming in alongside someone like Kane. In fact it would demonstrate the first hit of forward thinking the club has done since Fergie. You get the ready made, instant next level world class striker and a young prospect who can develop properly for the next few years ready to step up when the time comes.

Rather tham getting the prospect and expecting them to immediately step up.
 

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Please don’t enter into a fecking saga with this. Either get serious about Kane ASAP, or wrap up the Hojlund deal. Fiddling around and losing our current top target while not fully committing to quickly getting Kane done would be a huge mistake.

And for the record I don’t see how we’d possibly sign both.
 

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Bayern won’t pay him that much. We would probably give him around 375/400 k plus a nice sign-on fee. Bayern won’t pay more than that either.
Also regarding the rumours his wife was in Munich. So she was there but there are no pictures spotting her in Munich?
 

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Sure, let’s believe the bits of the story we like and dismiss the bits we’re not keen on.

If we accept the fact that he’s going to be for sale, then we would have to believe the same journos (who have seemingly all been briefed the same thing) about his wage demands.

On that basis, he can absolutely feck off.
Given they frequently feck up with currencies, I'd be inclined to believe we are talking about €30M - or £480k-ish. He would be the highest paid player in the league, but not on silly money.
 

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Given they frequently feck up with currencies, I'd be inclined to believe we are talking about €30M - or £480k-ish. He would be the highest paid player in the league, but not on silly money.
English journos discussing an English player potentially moving between two English clubs.

They’re often sly with currency conversions on transfer fees from European clubs but that is a stretch to say the very least.

Not to mention, even at £480k per week he can do one.
 

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Would be a travesty if we didn't at least bid for Kane.

He can snub Bayern and force Levy's hand to approve us, and Levy has to sell now.
 

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That isn't how FFP, budgets or accounting practices in football works.



Exactly, it has to be nonsense. He is on 200k, Bayern would probably offer 400k at a push, we would match that I imagine.
Yeah, it's total bullshit. Why would we need to go as high as 600k on wages when no one else will pay anything close to that.
 

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Well done on missing the point. I’m actually referring to the team we’re potentially building. You can’t be the brightest if you think we’re planning on going into the season without buying a striker.
I've never suggested that the club aren't planning on a buying a striker. We're obviously going to buy a striker. We're probably just going to buy the wrong one.

Kane is THE perfect #9 for ETH's system. He would transform our club. And the worries about him only having a couple more good seasons are rubbish. He's not a player who relies on speed to do what he does best so I don't imagine his productivity will fall off a cliff like we've seen with players like Ronaldo. Kane will be scoring goals into his mid-30s.

If he comes to United he will obliterate Shearer's record. He could genuinely reach 300 EPL goals.
 

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I hope Ten Hag pushes for him, he's on the top of his list and if we bid Kane can help us toward acquiring him.
 

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The fact Spurs do now want to sell (the idea they’d piss 80m away was always bullshit yet some believed it) gives Kane and his chosen club all the leverage. He can now decide where he wants to go. Sign Hojlund now, work on selling Fred, Elanga, Hannibal, Henderson, Martial, Williams, DVB and Bailly - and then have Kane say he isn’t signing a new deal middle of august. It won’t be a 100m fee then.
Football manager ruins peoples minds
 

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Wouldn't rule out Kane to us in the final week of the window regardless of the Hojlund signing, I suspect deep down he really fancies us over a move to the Bundesliga and if Ten Hag can shift a few out of the door which he is currently doing then I wouldn't be surprised at all to see us going all out for him, in all honesty we do need two strikers, and the lad from Atlanta along with Kane would be outstanding additions and would genuinely set us up for a title tilt.
 

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Is Kane and Hojland that impossible?

Would realistically mean a £250m summer spend: 55m Mount, £45m Onana, £95m Kane, £55m Hojland.

With the progress we seem to be making getting rid of our deadwood it might not be.

If we did manage to get Kane, maybe it would make sense to go for a cheaper young striker like Gift Orban or Marcos Leonardo for £20m instead leaving budget for a CB or DM maybe.
 

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Where do you think the money is coming from?
Fred - 15
Elanga - 15
Henderson - 15
Bailly and Telles - 7ish
Martial call it 3 just to round Saudi sales to 10m?

Thats £55m plus what we had for Hojlund to make a cool & 100m plus.

If we sell Maguire and McTominay we can probably get Hojlund too anyway.
 

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Hmm, well if his camp offer zero interest or inkling at renewing that'll change real fast before the end of the window...
 

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Hmm, well if his camp offer zero interest or inkling at renewing that'll change real fast before the end of the window...
This guy knows feck all so I'd be wary of reading his tweets.
 

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I often read that Kane "doesn't rely on pace".
Just a hypothesis - Let's say Kane's max pace is 20mph now and as he ages it becomes 15mph.
Another striker (striker x) who "relies on pace" has a max pace of 25mph but as they decline it decreases to 20mph.
I recognise there are caveats and intricacies to that, but at what point is it essential that Kane's top speed is 20, 19, 18? To the extent of actually he relies on his pace to maintain his world class all round game. Opposed to striker X.
A lot of scenarios I suspect. But interested in hearing opinions of people more well versed than myself.
I'm a big fan of Kane and I'm personally in the camp of we should sign him for up to c.£100m and top wages if we believe we can get 3 top years out of him. I think he is the right striker for right now and the system Erik wants to play but have concerns moving forward.
 

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100m for Kane is much better value impact wise than Hojlund for 60m
True.

But I'm much more confident that we can get Hojlund for £60m if we fully go in for him - and that he'll be happy to come here.

I'm not completely convinced Tottenham would accept a bid from a PL rival if they have genuine interest from the likes of Bayern - and have a slight concern that Kane might opt to leave on good terms by joining a non-PL club like Bayern if he leaves Spurs rather than a 'rival' like us.

If I was very confident of the Kane link, I'd be happy for us to go full in on that at the risk of the Hojlund deal. But I'm a little worried it may drag on in a fruitless chase and we end up missing out on Hojlund as well as Kane. So I'll be happy if we wrap up either and ensure we get one of them this summer. Ideally Kane (or both if we could somehow afford that!), but would be happy enough with either so long as we get at least one of them done.