yeah, or you fall behind and don't have a chance? This is once apon a time stuff.
Hey, leave the man's dreams alone! (we'll swoop for Kane next year, when no-one's looking and he's alone inspecting the Dulux paint job on the Spurs' trophy cabinet)
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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Hey, leave the man's dreams alone! (we'll swoop for Kane next year, when no-one's looking and he's alone inspecting the Dulux paint job on the Spurs' trophy cabinet)
We want Haaland over Kane. If we can't get Kane this summer (which we won't) all our focus will be on Haaland next summer I think.
I think people overestimate City's spending power. They have pulled out of deals before because of absurd transfer fees - Magure, Koulibaly etc.
Their current record transfer stands at around £60m. We've yet to see them splash out £100+m on a single player, and that's what it will take to get Levy's interest.
I suspect both Haaland and Kane will be forced to stay this summer, which is probably good for us as it stops City/Chelsea getting them. We can focus on other areas (Sancho, CB, CM, RB) and hopefully we can win the race for Haaland next summer.
Eh can't really see United paying +100m for any player, Kane or not.
I think it’s even less likely next summer. He would be 29 when the season starts.
Same as I’ve been saying. Think the same question applies at United.
Grealish, Foden and Sancho are rather creative?
Grealish and Sancho are wide players though, Kane doesn't really work the channels but he does drop into a false 9 position.
Lingardinho.
Sterling?
Kane will come deep though. He can't help himself now.
Still wide, its been England's problems for decades, no truly creative CM.
Well Grealish can play centrally and even technically playing “wide” they both drift. Kane dropping deep condenses their space. If you play Kane you need a runner like Rashford/Sterling for me. I say if you play Kane...obviously you play Kane. Unfortunately Rashford isn’t fit and Sterling is in horrific form.
Grealish played as number 10 all of 3 days ago.
Sterling can operate centrally when required. Most forward players are effective anywhere across the front line these days - at least to a degree.
We had one of the all time greats and played him on the left
Great footballer, poor businessman. Trying to get out of Spurs will be difficult, and at 28, this is his peak. Really dumb decision signing that super long contract.
Does seem like Levy will try to hang on to Harry for one to two years. Letting Harry go for 100m will probably be a big admittance there's no coming back to top 4 for a while. I thought Conte was a very good move but doesn't seem likely now. Levy is scrambling to rectify the manager situation, I doubt he'll admit defeat yet.
All comes back to Harry signing a 6 year deal. If he wanted 4 years or even 3 would Spurs say no? I don't think so. Even a CL clause would help.
All comes back to Harry signing a 6 year deal. If he wanted 4 years or even 3 would Spurs say no? I don't think so. Even a CL clause would help.
Why do we use 28 as a peak? Kane isn't a speed merchant, he wont get slower he has IMO another 4 years at the *peak* of his abilities. Its lazy analysis.
Harry Kane still has some years on his contract. Unless a club offers a ridiculous amount, Levy won't sell. I can easily see Kane staying at Spurs beyond 30.
Reported currently that Levy wants 150 million, preferably in cash (they have a stadium to pay back after all)
I don't see anyone paying that, tbh. Maybe we will as a panic buy if our other targets fall through.
I don't see anyone paying that, tbh. Maybe we will as a panic buy if our other targets fall through.
no one is paying it.
Kane has made his bed… let’s see how he reacts.
Levy will drag this out all summer to the detriment of the club. He has a blind spot. He focuses too much on hiking up fees and misses the bigger picture.
They have a few players at the right profile of age and experience that they could sell for a decent sum this summer, though. Jesus and Sterling alone could easily fetch them around £100m or so. After that, there's been rumours that Laporte is unhappy, and Mahrez isn't safe from the potential chopping block.
I could see them binning 3 of those for a good price and replacing them with Kane, Grealish, and probably another fullback for Pep.
The club is a shambles from top to bottom right now, I hope Paratici is allowed to put his own stamp on the club, I doubt he will have free reign though.
Levy is as deluded with his valuation as Dortmund were last year with Sancho.
No one is paying that in the Covid era unless it’s a clone of Messi/Rinaldo.
Doubt it will happen but if Chelsea get Haaland for 150-170m would that prompt City to break policy and spend 150m on Kane. Could see a huge oil club battle take place if this FFP is going or gone now.
That's kind of the point isn't it? He doesn't want to sell this summer. And Dortmund didn't want to sell last summer. So they put an inflated valuation on the player which means either the player stays (good), or is sold for an unreasonably large fee above (silver lining). It's not "delusion", it's business.
Chelsea are never going to pay that for Haaland and Kane won't leave this summer
Levy doesn’t have blind spots - he’s the longest serving Chairman in the Premier League because he’s extremely good at his job.
You should stick his name into wiki and have a look at the basics of his CV.
Amongst many other business accomplishments, he’s the bloke who squeezed Alan Sugar out of Spurs.
I see a lot of hate thrown at Levy but it’s always because he’s awesome at his job, very difficult to do business with, never suffers an outcome that’s not on his terms (which are always the terms that best manage the interests of Spurs as a business under the circumstances at the time).
I don’t like the guy, but love him or hate him, only someone who knows absolutely nothing about managing a business could accuse him of having a blind spot of any description.
It seems that way, too much money. Like a poster above said though, it is possible we could do a panic move if we fail again with Sancho.
Levy isn't just the chairman, he's part owner, the only one who could positionally "sack" him is Lewis who has no day to day interest in the club..
I am thankful to Levy for many reasons but have been getting slow disillusioned with him, undoubtable Covid has messed up his plans.
extracting The last penny from a transfer, and not allowing you to buy a replacement because you take it to the last moment - is a massive blind spot, and an obvious indicator that his priorities are misplaced. Look at the Berbatov transfer for clear evidence of this. Look at Danny Rose, and how much they have wasted in wages over the past two seasons, when he should have sold him when he first wanted to go - yet put too high of a price on his head.
He didn’t allow the club to buy a player for 18 months. There are clearly some things he’s very good at, but he has significant failings as well.
Also - players themselves see this going on. SMART players with decent agents will never sign a 5 year deal with Levy, because you know that to him you are just a bargaining chip and he will play profiteering games with your -life-. I think there was a player (forget who) that literally went to the airport and sat on a plane ready to go, with no word of what was happening before Levy pulled the plug on a deal for whatever reason at the last minute. So plenty of players eventually start just running their contracts down instead.
He needs to sell Kane - but he won't . Levy holds all the cards here and would rather wreck Kane's career than give a shit what Harry Kane wants. Perhaps he's felt a bit burned by selling us Carrick, Berbatov etc and has said "never again" but the players have a say in it too, it's a dangerous game to play and not really sustainable in my opinion (hence Tottenham's lack of consistency at the top)
I think we'd try but we'd never pay it either. It's looking more like we're going to panic buy a CB instead if Sancho doesn't happen
Also sacked a manager capable of winning finals, just before a final, because financially it helped.
You need to look at him from a business perspective, not a football perspective, because the notion that all football clubs have the sole purpose of playing good football and winning trophies is a romantic fantasy that we football supporters cuddle up to for comfort.
The fact of the matter is that the sole aim of most clubs is to make money, which sometimes aligns with playing football up to a high enough standard to finish 4th in the PL.
Levy is an excellent business man, the longest serving Chairman in the PL and a bloke who elbowed Lord Sugar out of his way to take control of Spurs and improve their lot fantastically.
Like I said, I don’t like the bloke, I don’t like that he’s willing to cut his nose off to spite his face but his reputation is well earned and nobody could every consider him an easy touch or a walkover so I also have deep respect for him as a business man because he’s one of the very best.
Or in Sterling's case, equally ineffective anywhere across the front line
I do look at it from a football and a business perspective. In this business you have to BUY and SELL - there are two sides of the coin, and he sacrifices one for the other. Even before COVID he failed to sell the naming rights to the stadium.
he has done some good things for spurs, and overseeing the stadium will be his legacy. However he’s not good in the transfer market by any stretch.
look at what he did with the Bale money as another example.