Harry Kane | "I will be staying at Tottenham this summer and will be 100% focused on helping the team achieve success."

No player gives false impressions about his quality or form more than Kane.

People should have learnt by now not to doubt him until he actually has a bad season.
 
Lets see if Pep can fix him. Hes a weird player, he drops deep doing his Rooney impression and the stats says it works but his assist stats are padded by 4 v Southampton and 9 in the first 6 games. He has 4 assists in last 24 league games and none at all in the Euros.
 
Pexbo said:
Am I remembering right that Sam Lee is actually a United fan but found a niche as a journalist reporting on City or have I made that up?
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He's a terrible source for City, no idea how he can work for the The Athletic. I've heard he had most of his stories from Jose Alvarez, who is a good friend of Aguero. Anyway, Jack Gaughan is the best source for City and has been for few years now but he never really posts exclusives in advance so with him it's only about whether a story is correct or made up.
 
Source from those articles is The Sun it’s a load of bollocks. Not one single journo has news of arguably the biggest transfer in PL history yet the Sun does? yeah right.

To be honest even if Levy agrees to sell I can’t see City spending 160m on him that’s crazy money.
 
I think he'll be great for them. City being an oil club means they don't have to worry about long term value of £100m.
Sentiment aside, it doesn't make economic sense for Levy to reject such a bid.
 
Adisa said:
I think he'll be great for them. City being an oil club means they don't have to worry about long term value of £100m.
Sentiment aside, it doesn't make economic sense for Levy to reject such a bid.
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If reports if such a bid are legit, then yeah Levy is going to snatch their hands off. The question, kind of like the Haaland deal, is whether a bid like that is actually forthcoming. I genuinely can't see City being OK with paying that amount for Kane.
 
If this comes to pass, there will so much copium around here, people already started with some gem drivels.
 
WeePat said:
If reports if such a bid are legit, then yeah Levy is going to snatch their hands off. The question, kind of like the Haaland deal, is whether a bid like that is actually forthcoming. I genuinely can't see City being OK with paying that amount for Kane.
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I can't as well. Many of the reports have stated players are included in that figure and it won't be straight cash.
My feeling is that he will move next year and not this one.
 
I wouldn’t want us to spend £160m on him. Though if we had a bottomless pit of money like City, why not? Even if he flops (he won’t), they can just spend another £160m on Haaland or whoever next summer.
 
£160 million is an obscene sum of money to be shelling out at the best of times, but to do so during an economic crisis, not to mention being watched by the entire footballing world due to Der Spiegel's claims, is the absolute definition of insanity.

I can't wait for the day it all to blow up in their faces.
 
Rajiztar said:
There is nothing like 150 mn 200 mn for city. If kane goes there they will have minimum 20 goal per season striker for minimum three years.

Last season their highest goal scorer was gundogan I think. That's some elevation for the city team in that goal scoring department.

I don't think they will stop there though possibly grealish and one defensive midfielder. If there is FFP that too relaxed for these covid years.So no problem for city to use this window in my opinion.
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I don't think that's the case. For all the spending they've made over the years it's hard to say they went big for individual targets. Their record signing is Dias at £64m which is less than we paid for Maguire anyway.
 
flappyjay said:
Looks a lot of people just trying to make themselves feel better. If they win the ucl within the next 3 years and his body gives the year after they will deem the transfer a success.
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Exactly. The RvP transfer was a success, even though we only got one top class season followed by one pretty good season out of him. Sometimes you just need that instant impact, and I predict that Kane still has a bit more left in the tank now than Van Persie did at 29.

The fee is bonkers though.
 
really not bothered to be honest.

i’d be far more worried if they got Haaland.
 
Crazy fee but at the same time, lucky City! He's quality and will absolutely no doubt make them a better team next year. Still, no need to panic, if we actually add Varane along with Sancho then we've strengthened massively too.
 
El Zoido said:
I wouldn’t want us to spend £160m on him. Though if we had a bottomless pit of money like City, why not? Even if he flops (he won’t), they can just spend another £160m on Haaland or whoever next summer.
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Even for City it would be an egregious breach of FFP
 
160m is insanity, it'd probably be a 5 year contract too.

If that's the price then City are welcome to him.
 
The fee is mental but lets not kid ourselves City with Kane would be unstoppable
 
It just doesn't really hurt or bother me though, City are already in a league of their own. They just make most football fans feel empty, who can muster up anger about such a hollow little club. If Kane flops it means nothing to them, we see it with that team all the time, just look at their ever changing defence, they just throw more money at an issue every summer, no consequences
 
Che Guevara said:
I'm convinced Kane, Grealish and Zaha are not changing clubs this summer.
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Agreed.

sglowrider said:
I bet Chelsea ups their game and get haaland now
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Add Haaland to the above list as well actually.

And Mbappe. And I'm still tempted to put Pogba in there as well to be honest. My gut feeling is that they'll all stay.

Adamsk7 said:
It’s absolutely made up trash of course but I’d love him to go there for £160m. Personally I think he’s done - looked an absolute shadow of his former self at the euros and barely did any running. Even if he’s as good as he ever was (he’s not), he’s still likely to pick up multiple injuries a season so it’s likely he’s not going to be in great shape as he heads towards his 30’s. it would also put City out of the race for Haaland when it seems that next year only us, them, PSG and Chelsea could afford him.
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If you were inclined to only judge Kane off the Euros, which coming off his one of his best premier league campaings of his career would be a little strange for me, but if you were, I don't know how anyone could watch the final against Italy and think Kane was done. I genuinely thought he was absolutely brilliant.

City would continue to hoover up domestically for the foreseeable if they go and get Kane imo.
 
8thWonder said:
If you were inclined to only judge Kane off the Euros, which coming off his one of his best premier league campaings of his career would be a little strange for me, but if you were, I don't know how anyone could watch the final against Italy and think Kane was done. I genuinely thought he was absolutely brilliant.

City would continue to hoover up domestically for the foreseeable if they go and get Kane imo.
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Recency effect in play.
 
Hopefully City will be getting the Kane that looked hopelessly out of shape and confidence in the beginning of the Euro's and not the one after.
 
I don't think City would spend 160m, yes they would get him but figure would be closer to 100, 160 is insane figure.
 
I expected them to throw in a player or two, because 160m is insane, and they should be criticized for such reckless spending.
 
I very much doubt we're spending £160m on Kane, it might be £80m and 2 other players but really can't see us splashing that money when we've never been close to that for 1 player
 
foolsgold said:
Even for City it would be an egregious breach of FFP
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FFP is a joke, it’s just lip service. The sheik has got to be in £10bn deep with City by now, all things considered. When you have so much money the rules don’t apply, so I doubt they’d have any pause over spending whatever they want.
 
Doubt it but still hoping that happens, he is not even remotely worth thst kind of money :lol:

Would dispell the "we dont spend big on one player" notion as well.
 
El Zoido said:
FFP is a joke, it’s just lip service. The sheik has got to be in £10bn deep with City by now, all things considered. When you have so much money the rules don’t apply, so I doubt they’d have any pause over spending whatever they want.
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haha considering he's sold 25% for over £600m in the last couple of years to separate investors I think he's doing ok on his investment which is around 1.6Bn at the moment, so he's probably in hoc for around £1bn
 
Judas said:
Paying Haaland money for Kane is mad, but its City. Although I'd be shocked if that figure is true.
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Haaland could massively flop in the PL. With Kane you are almost certainly guaranteeing 30+ goals a season.
 
Why do City fans reference the sum on one player as some kind of barometer?

If you spend 100 at the liquor store, no one cares if the priciest bottle was 20.

United have a 50m RB, but have spent far less on that position than City in recent years.

160m is no different from 80m to City. None of it is the clubs issue, if Kane doesn't work out, buy some other striker next season. That's the cheat code impact: not that you can buy a very expensive player, but that you don't really have to worry about it not being a success.
 
In fairness, paying a guest for a story based upon them overhearing another pissed up guest say something at a private wedding still ranks in the top 5 most journalistically ethical things that newspaper can claim to have done. Really, everyone involved should be proud of themselves.
 
Ronaldo's Love Child said:
FFS. I would not be surprised if City announce Kane and Grealish before we even announce the Sancho transfer.
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Like I said elsewhere, City’s PR people ( that’s all City is about, PR for Abu Dhabi) will be working on timing the announcement of Kane and Grealish to steal the limelight from United. Just like when they would announce player X has signed a new deal before the derby or player b is injured an a doubt for a big match but he plays. If they do sign Kane and Grealish, the published figure will be a fraction of the real one.
 
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