I don't feel as though he's a "city" signing. Maybe wishful thinking from me but I just don't see them paying that sort of fee for a CF who is 28
Harry Kane | "I will be staying at Tottenham this summer and will be 100% focused on helping the team achieve success."
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He’ll go to City and bang in 50 goals a season.
Does the CB & CDM's have to be elite level or would you take prospect signings with Kane
100 million plus Lingard. Get it done Ed(win)
I personally doubt he will leave. Levy will demand a massive fee, and Kane still has 3 more yrs on his contract and is not the sort that throws toys out of the pram.
City will continue to dominate the league for years to come. He will go there and win a few trophies.
It’s not like money is an issue (plenty of oil still), but Aguero’s wages will cover Kane’s and they’ll probably get him for the now customary £60m - £65m
It’s not like money is an issue (plenty of oil still), but Aguero’s wages will cover Kane’s and they’ll probably get him for the now customary £60m - £65m
----------------Kane
Rashford-Bruno-Greenwood
----------Pogba---6
Shaw--Maguire---4---WanBissaka
Puts us right up there
Rashford-Bruno-Greenwood
----------Pogba---6
Shaw--Maguire---4---WanBissaka
Puts us right up there
Fair play if you genuinely believe we could still get Sancho too
It looks like Levy promised him he could leave last year.
He's going to City though.
I think he will replace Aguero at City. More guarantee of trophies.
You can never trust Levy.
Maybe, but not at any price. They didn't agree on a release fee and Levy will always say the offers received are too low and unacceptable. Spurs have a huge stadium debt and they will demand top dollar for their most prized asset, since they will also need to replace him and rebuild the squad.
You're right, it would push them even further out of our orbit but I don't think we should be occupying ourselves with City's plans right now.
All we can focus on is how we improve the areas in the squad that have let us down this season. Signing Kane out of fear rather than necessity is the kind of vainglorious move we would've made before Ole took over. The kind of move I'm hoping we've moved beyond. And I say that as someone who would love to see Kane in a United shirt.
Even so, if it's 3 top players to improve the whole side or just pinning everything on Kane alone, I'd hope and expect that Ole would do the right thing and focus on the weak spots.
If he arrives, we win the league. He is that good. Simple as that.
You have no idea what they agreed
a part ex involving Martial would suit all parties.
we know Martial really needs a new start, and if spurs do offload Kane - finding any sort of replacement is going to be hard for them.
Martial + £50m could actually be quite a reasonable comprise for them.
Striker isn't really an area of strength. The gulf between Cavani and the rest is massive, and Cavani is unlikely to play a huge proportion of games next season. Plus he's gone in 12 months and then there is very likely no one available to replace him, unless Kane and Haaland stay available for another season, and even then we're back to that old chestnut of being desperate and exploitable. If Kane or Haaland are free this summer, we should be going all out to get one, specially whilst we have two players in VDB and Martial who are nice incentives for a swap.
Are we liable to lose out on Sancho by waiting another year? Maybe, but probably not. I'd be happy with Greenwood at RW for another season. But this summer feels like the last opportunity to get a quality, long-term number 9 as I can't think of anyone other than Kane and Haaland that improve us to such an extent.
I think they need to be proven. My thought process is you try and strengthen your weakest areas with high quality and sign prospects for the areas you are already strong. If you look through our squad, it could be argued that after LB and GK, forwards are our next strongest area if you consider who we can field. Our problem is we can't control games and play well on the front foot. Why?
1) because we have a CM that is literally one of the worst in the league. Fred and Scott would start for almost any other team in the division as a pair.
2) Our starting two CBs just don't compliment eachother, they have the same weaknesses which means we are forced to play with two poor (see point 1) holding midfielders at the expense of playing a world cup winner in the position he helped lead his country to the world cup.
I am a massive fan of Kane. But just like Arsenal or Everton signing him wouldn't chance their positions massively, I don't think it will change ours. If watching how City and Liverpool have set new league standards over the past few years can teach anything. It's that you need to strong squad position to position, not just superstar amongst dross.
Not arsed if we get him or not, we need players more elsewhere in the team
Wasn't van Persie nailed on for City until Fergie had a word?
Nah. We could have R9 and we wouldn’t win the league with that midfield and centre back pairing. He’s also got injury issues.
He'll probably end up at Chelsea, and Haaland at City.
Name checks out.
City will continue to dominate the league for years to come. He will go there and win a few trophies.
It’s not like money is an issue (plenty of oil still), but Aguero’s wages will cover Kane’s and they’ll probably get him for the now customary £60m - £65m
Kane transfer fee £65m
In completely non related news, Spurs' stadium debt is reduced by £200m after selling the naming rights to newly christened London Etihad Superdome
He agent must be crap. Why would you tie yourself to Spurs for so long with no release clause?
Not a City-type signing, even less so a Pep-type one. I think Pep's absolutely loving not having to field a central forward.
I desperately wish some actual fans could communicate to the higher ups that Kane is precisely the type of signing we don't want, even if it would be marketing gold.
We need a DMF, RWF far, FAR more than a striker now that Cavani is staying, and Greenwood is rediscovering his incredible form.
Kane would cost the whole transfer kitty.
He'll be 28, consistently misses large chunks of the season with an ever increasing injury list, and he's clearly already lost a few steps.
Please, someone take Ed's fax machine away.
I desperately wish some actual fans could communicate to the higher ups that Kane is precisely the type of signing we don't want, even if it would be marketing gold.
We need a DMF, RWF far, FAR more than a striker now that Cavani is staying, and Greenwood is rediscovering his incredible form.
Kane would cost the whole transfer kitty.
He'll be 28, consistently misses large chunks of the season with an ever increasing injury list, and he's clearly already lost a few steps.
Please, someone take Ed's fax machine away.
We could easily afford him. Hazard money innit.
He'll flop at city. Not his style of play and he won't be the top dog either.
as was Sanchez, Maguire and Fred… doesn’t really matter how they turned out. Just because city want a player doesn’t automatically mean he’s going there.
If he goes, and that’s a big if, I think it’s 50/50 between us and city.
expect fergie to get involved in this one!
I'd rather buy grealish, sancho and a dm or a cb.
#21 and #4 would be on the way if we pulled that off but unfortunately real life isn't manager mode
Unless we have some sort of massive clearance which I highly doubt
Believe
Yeah I am sure he will but think the likelihood is we have moved on now Edi is staying for another year which is the right thing despite being a big fan of Kane but there is no doubt we need a CB, CDM & RW above that much as he is a sure fire thing
Levy wouldn't sell Chelsea a virus mate. He sold Modric to Real Madrid for less then what we had offered despite Modric preferring Chelsea. The only way Chelsea stand a chance is if Kane kicks up a fuss about only wanting to sign for us because he wants to remain in London and even then, there's a slim to no chance of it ever happening.
28 is prime! He´s got a good 4-5 years in him, before he turnes into a great sub for us. As Cavani is now.
And he is no more prone to injuries than any other footballer.
Sign him up, he´ll make us contenders.
Martial + £50 m doesn’t kill our transfer budget either.
We then target a centre half and that’s probably our business done ? We could also cash in on De Gea saving ££££ on the wage bill.
Henderson
AWB CB. Maguire. Shaw
McTominay. Pogba
Greenwood. Fernandes. Rashford
Kane
In reserve we could have Laird, Lindelof, Bailly and Telles for defence
Fred, Garner and Matic for CM
Amad and James as wide forwards
Van de Beek as #10
Cavani as centre forward
it makes too much sense doesn’t it?
If the Glazers really want to get the fans back they get Kane, Sancho and a centre half.
Kane has the potential to transform us as per Van Persie - we should be all over this, no question.
We then target a centre half and that’s probably our business done ? We could also cash in on De Gea saving ££££ on the wage bill.
Henderson
AWB CB. Maguire. Shaw
McTominay. Pogba
Greenwood. Fernandes. Rashford
Kane
In reserve we could have Laird, Lindelof, Bailly and Telles for defence
Fred, Garner and Matic for CM
Amad and James as wide forwards
Van de Beek as #10
Cavani as centre forward
it makes too much sense doesn’t it?
If the Glazers really want to get the fans back they get Kane, Sancho and a centre half.
Kane has the potential to transform us as per Van Persie - we should be all over this, no question.
I would totally agree with you and I'm sure many would too IF we didn't have bigger issues at CB, CDM & RW
That would be a dangerous game for them to play. If Levy gets a reputation for going back on his word it won’t look good to future signings.
I am 100% certain we will not sign both of them let alone a CB as well much as it pains me to say
Didn't we have about six 0-0 draws this season? Can anyone honestly say that Kane in those games doesn't turn most of them into wins?
Would we have lost at home to Palace, arsenal and Sheffield United with Kane up front? I suspect not
Would we have lost at home to Palace, arsenal and Sheffield United with Kane up front? I suspect not