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Harry Kane | Bayern Munich player

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We must lodge a bid.

Non-negotiable, even if we don't sign him and we are blanked, as a club, we have to make a public and formal bid.

We have too.
I like you. But in this case, you’re like a dude who’s convinced he could land with the lesbian next door because she’s dumped her girlfriend. It ain’t gonna happen.
 

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Would Kane? If he goes to Bayern, it's because it is a guaranteed league title at least. Man United are on the up but by no means a safe bet to win the league in the next couple of years.
I 100% he'd choose us over Bayern, maybe it's rose tinted glasses. He wants that damn record and he strikes me as a This Morning and Pot Noodle sort of dullard.
 

Murder on Zidane's Floor

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I like you. But in this case, you’re like a dude who’s convinced he could land with the lesbian next door because she’s dumped her girlfriend. It ain’t gonna happen.
I actually slept with a lesbian once, hence my belief anything is possible.
 

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Levy doesn't have an obligation to accept the same bid from Utd. He'd just turn it down and we'd look stupid.
 

Hernandez - BFA

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I actually don’t want him to leave the Prem - be a shame seeing someone so close to Shearer’s record and leave now.
 

rooneyberbatov

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He would have known he was expecting a child when Bayern talked to him before bidding for him. There is no way Bayern have been this aggressive without a clear message from Kane that he wants to go there.

Imagine him excitedly going home to tell his wife, until to look down at her pregnancy bump in shock as the reality dawns on him.
:lol:
Agree. And it’s not like they don’t have the resources to move and take care of their newborn and their family. Munich is actually a pretty cool place to live when you have money.
He should definitely go. Try to win the Bundesliga and fight for the Champions League. I’d actually love to see him at United but there’s no way Levy would let him join us even if we somehow match the bid.
 

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Maybe we should just submit a bid so that the media can't say "they didn't even try for Kane" anytime Hojlund doesn't score a Hat-Trick.

Although they will still just say we didn't try enough or whatever.
 

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If a Prem club comes in with a bid Kane would move. He's chasing the Shearer record without a doubt.
 

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Levy doesn't have an obligation to accept the same bid from Utd. He'd just turn it down and we'd look stupid.
Not when Kane says he isn’t going to Bayern. At that point, Levy is utterly stuck. If Kane chooses Bayern over us then so be it but I’m confident that he won’t if the wages are in the same ballpark.
 

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Its worth a fax, nothing to lose.
They leak we bid for him. Publicly we look desperate and that we don't want to go through a season with only Hojlund (which is true but you don't want to advertise how desperate you are).
 

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Remember that £94.5m figure if this goes through, because that is going to be used against United if we’re struggling at any point and pundits are going to say why we didn’t spend a bit more.

We all know Levy would have set us a price of £140m to sign him :rolleyes:
 

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They leak we bid for him. Publicly we look desperate and that we don't want to go through a season with only Hojlund (which is true but you don't want to advertise how desperate you are).
The plan all along was two strikers with Hojlund being the understudy.
 

Solius

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The deal also appears to have a large amount of the money up front, which I don't think we could afford to do?
 

roonster09

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We must lodge a bid.

Non-negotiable, even if we don't sign him and we are blanked, as a club, we have to make a public and formal bid.

We have too.
Why? To look stupid?

For once we are doing the right things in the transfer market and few want to go back to old ways.
 

Berbaclass

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The deal also appears to have a large amount of the money up front, which I don't think we could afford to do?
Yes we could if needed. We have a massive revolving credit facility and let's face it the Glazers aren't leaving so there isn't much stopping us from using it.
 

Murder on Zidane's Floor

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Why? To look stupid?

For once we are doing the right things in the transfer market and few want to go back to old ways.
Look stupid?! The best striker in the league is available and we don't even attempt it. No one will think it's stupid bidding for him, even if it is rejected.
 

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Is it a football manager thing or a Fifa thing or something?

Why do people seem to think if we lodge a similar bid Levy has to accept it?

We all know if he's demanding 100m from Bayern he'll want about 120m from us
 

roonster09

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Look stupid?! The best striker in the league is available and we don't even attempt it. No one will think it's stupid bidding for him, even if it is rejected.
When Levy has an easy way out to sell the player to outside league why will he accept similar bid from us?

People running the clubs are not stupid, as much as fans want to believe that .

We have to make much more larger bid with much more favorable terms for Levy to accept the bid.