True. But even their inclusion back then seems pretty damn arbitrary. Even discounting Premier Leagues and counting only old school Division 1 titles...
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Yes, he can. The said player wanted the safety net of a 6 year contract so he should plan to honor it. A contract works both ways. Would Kane be willing to cancel his contract if he suddenly gets injured and unable to play again in his career? Of course, he wouldn't.
End of the day it’s Levy’s job to do right for the club. Kane is the idiot for signing his latest contract extension.
Well, knowing Kane's love for Spurs and uprising stature of the club during Poch's peak tenure, he of course wanted to sign. He would be an idiot if he didn't want to sign his first big contract.
Please don’t make a Gooner defend Daniel Levy...
if Kane wants to move, the first think he needs to do is call out Levy and tell everyone what this ‘gentleman’s agreement’ is?
My thoughts too. If Kane didn’t see his long term future at Spurs then why on Earth did he sign that long term contract when his initial one was due to expire next summer?
I really wish Kane would do this as his celebration for England
Covid-19 happened.
Can’t be as he signed it in 2018
I love that video. There’s something mesmerising about it, where I’ve just got to watch it.
Levy/Spurs would have to honour the contract because FIFA says they have too but a player can get out of a contract and Kane should he wish to could do just that indeed he may have already started down that route.
I mean because of Covid, club like Tottenham suffered more. Built a new stadium, thinking they can get more revenue from matchday.
Its you rapping isn’t it?
Harry Kane commited his career to Tottenham through a professional sports contract.
FIFA yes. But also basic contract law. Transfer fees are essentially compensation for breaking a contract. The problem with Kane (as well as Zaha and others) is that their value to their clubs isso much higher than market value. Keeping a team in the Premier League or propelling a team to the Champion League can have a £100m+ impact.
Players can do this after a certain amount of time into their contract depending on their age. However, it’s never actually been with a high profile. When it comes down to it, none of the big clubs want hand even more power to he players by collapsing the transfer system. It just not worth it - even for someone like Kane.
He's their chairman. He also owns 30% of the company that owns 85% of Spurs.
Levy and members of his family own the rest I think. Basically there is only 2 people that can hold Levy to account one is old, lives in the Bahamas and doesn't give a shit and the other is Levy himself.
Ronaldo, Pogba, De Gea, Zaha, Kane, Grealish, Mbappe, Neymar all say hi...
Players who signed a contract before age 28 can buy themselves out of their contract after 3 years over 28 after 2 years. Players also are able to give notice if they haven’t, as long as they have been fit or not suspended , walk for free if they haven’t played 10% of first team games.
This never happens.
Well that’s not true. Selling key assets at the correct time is vital for certain clubs to continue performing and having a chance to compete. As I said Spurs wasted the value of many of their best players by holding on. Leicester have sold some good players (I.e Maguire) replaced them, and still managed to win a cup. That’s excellent management from a club who know where they are in the pyramid. Levy has lied to himself and Spurs fans about where they are as a club. They simply cannot hope to compete with the established elite in the market, so you have to be smarter with which players to sell and who to recruit. Spurs made the fatal error of doing neither and standing still.
It's very hard to achieve success that way, if I may rephrase. And despite Leicester's success post Ranieri (1 FA Cup), Tottenham made it to a CL final. But for a harsh penalty... who knows? Levy has placed his club in positions to challenge for major trophies across multiple seasons.
For what it’s worth I haven’t mentioned Kane and they are right to keep hold of players like him when they get the chance. Others though such as Alli or Dembele could have been sold when they were near peak value and wouldn’t have been irreplaceable.
In all fairness with someone like Alli, you would have to be Nostradamus to know when he was at his most valuable. He looked like he had the world at his feet and would get better and better.
He buys exactly what his managers want. Compare that to a Woodward.
That is fair. Although it's becoming harder to get those kind of players at a discount. Other clubs in England and in Europe are happy to add on the PL tax. Let's say you sold Alli at 50M when he was performing well. Would you be able to plow those earnings/wages into 1 or more players such that you ended up better off? Not impossible (see Liverpool and Coutinho) but very difficult.
I think woodward probably buys exactly what his managers want also.
