What the hell is a gentleman's agreement. If Kane wanted to leave he should have inserted a release clause in his contract like Grealish did.Levy is the last person you would want to have a gentleman agreement with.
Kane has done so much for spurs and deserve to leave with respect and dignity.
He absolutely shouldn't budge. All this gentleman's agreement is bollocks.If Grealish went for 100 million, Levy is right to ask at least for 150 million.
Why did he decide to stay at such a small club for all those years if he was just going to burn his bridges at the end?
Is it possible he is just stupid/naive?
Yes. He’s thick.
Not really, Levy has his cake and will presumably sell it for his valuation. That is normal practice for a football chairman, the first duty is to the club and its interests. Sometimes those interests will coalesce with those of an individual player, sometimes they don't and sometimes a compromise can be found which may still happen via the valuation.They are both measures by which to value a player.
Both Levy and Kane are well aware of the market value of footballers around them. By offering him a contract on £200k a week, Levy was showing Kane that he valued him at around the same level as counterparts such as Martial, Maguire, Van Dijk and Chilwell, players who have gone for between £50 and £100m in recent windows. By accepting that offer, you could well say Kane was happy to agree with that valuation.
Now Levy is saying that £100m is not enough to buy Kane, and that he is a £150m or more player. Well that is fine, that's his prerogative - but Kane is certainly within his rights to question why that value is suddenly so much higher than the value Levy set when negotiating his wages.
When you start talking about £150m for players, the wages tend to reflect those valuations. Mbappe is on £400k a week, Lukaku has just signed something similar following his £100m+ transfer. God only knows what Neymar is on.
Levy is having his cake and eating it. He can do that because Kane and his brother were so monumentally stupid when negotiating that last deal, but their naivety doesn't change the fact that Levy is being a bit of a dick.
Kane's game isnt based on pace so there's nothing to suggest he'd have a steep decline.City not signing Kane this summer will complicate next summer no end.
Ive always reckoned Kanes decline will be pretty steep (just a hunch, not based on anything really) and given the choice between pursuing Haaland and Kane next summer if hes free Id much rather Haaland. City might feel the same way that Haaland is a better investment and drop all interest in Kane if they dont sign him this summer.
The same was said of RvP and he did fell off a cliff after WC14.Kane's game isnt based on pace so there's nothing to suggest he'd have a steep decline.
No, UEFA abolished that a couple of seasons back.If Kane plays for Spurs in the Europa Conference League on Thursday will he be cup tied in the Champions League if he goes to City?
He's 28 years old not 35.The same was said of RvP and he did fell off a cliff after WC14.
Decline in physicality affects all facets of your game, being half a second slower to a challenge, to receive a pass, to get that little bit of space for shooting can be the difference between a lethal top player to a journeyman.
And RvP was what? 31.He's 28 years old not 35.
Top striker who will be fine until hes 34 which 6 years away. City aren't stupid, they will have done their homework if they are going to give him a 5 year contract (if levy sells).And RvP was what? 31.
I don’t necessarily think that he will have a steep decline but it does happen. You never know especially with players who have a particular recurring injury like him, so dismissing that possibility out of hand because ‘his game isn’t based on pace’ is hardly convincing.
Will he play today?
Ronaldo signed his last United contract in April 2007. He was sold in June 2009.Again, barely any club in the world would offer a new contract to a player who is barely half way through his existing contract. There are exceptions to all cases but they are few amd far between.
When Ronaldo signed the new deal (1 year before he was actually sold and the year where Blatter made those crazy slave remarks), he did it to protect his value for the club and to also ensure he is protected in case something happens during the season. SAF gave him his word that they would sell him for 80mil and that was intimated to Madrid quite early as the transfer went through quickly.
Nothing similar to Harry Kane's situation. He signed a contract on very large wages 3 years back and now wants Levy to bend over to City's wishes to get him for cheaper than Spurs are willing to sell for. If he is that distraught, why has he not put in a transfer request?
It seems like it's Kane who wants to have his cake and eat it too, rather than Levy.
Kane's game isnt based on pace so there's nothing to suggest he'd have a steep decline.
Not in the squad, and doesn't even look to have turned up complete coward in my book, get him sold. Hope he flops hard where ever he goes.
Dont think he was ever going to be in the squad but watch him not being present being passed off as distancing requirements or something to down play it for now.
He played in the CL final right off the back of an injury, still was in the first 11 nvm the squad.
Think it's fairly simple.Shaw and Maguire are back playing for us, why isn't he back for Spurs? Spineless.
He comes across as someone who’s unprofessional at the moment, wouldn’t really want him around the club if this is how he acts. He should have carried on doing what he’s getting paid to do and left his transfer in the hands of City and his agent.Either way he's going to Manchester next summer. Red or Blue. In case we don't get Haaland.
Fair point but is really that big of cnut to miss on purpose?Think it's fairly simple.
If a transfer is ongoing between him and City then why would they want him playing?
Imagine a 90th minute Penalty and Kane steps up to take it, do you trust him to score it? what if he misses it by accident but then people think it was on purpose?
Just safer to keep him out of it.
This is a man who swore on his daughter's life that he got a touch on a header (he didn't) to claim a goal. I can't see him deliberately missing a penalty!Think it's fairly simple.
If a transfer is ongoing between him and City then why would they want him playing?
Imagine a 90th minute Penalty and Kane steps up to take it, do you trust him to score it? what if he misses it by accident but then people think it was on purpose?
Just safer to keep him out of it.
Fair point but is really that big of cnut to miss on purpose?
I'm not saying he WOULD, but imagine the chat after if he did miss by accident and then signed for city a few days later?This is a man who swore on his daughter's life that he got a touch on a header (he didn't) to claim a goal. I can't see him deliberately missing a penalty!
Imagine a 90th minute Penalty and Kane steps up to take it, do you trust him to score it? what if he misses it by accident but then people think it was on purpose?
Just safer to keep him out of it.
I'm not saying he WOULD, but imagine the chat after if he did miss by accident and then signed for city a few days later?
Let's hope he packed vaseline.What are the chances of that? Them getting a decisive penalty at the 90th minute, Kane, who is obsessed with beating Shearer's record & has a 84% goalscoring record from penalties, missing it & getting a transfer a few days later...
Imagine if aliens kidnap him from his home because he wasn't at the game?
Yeah it was confirmed ages ago he wouldn't be playing today.Am I dreaming or was it it confirmed last month that he wouldn’t be playing?
That Spurs squad is shocking no wonder he wants out.
Dreadful side on paper.
A bit thick perhaps but very talented, a shame he got his untalented and possibly also a bit thick brother to be in charge of his career.
