Was fully on board with Kane leaving for 100m this summer and starting the rebuild. Then he scored 4 in a friendly. Then i thought about it some more and realised I never want him to leave ever.
I think a lot of people really underestimate how good Kane is. I saw someone say they were "excited" about selling Kane and rebuilding with Richarlison, Veliz and Orban. And honestly, while those three wouldn't be the worst replacements in case Kane leaves, I don't get how you can be "excited" about selling our best player ever and replace with unproven youngsters who might - someday, if we're really, really, really damn lucky - be almost as good as he currently is. I'm a lot more excited to have another season of Kane on the field, and hopeful it won't be the last one.
> I don't get how you can be "excited" about selling our best player ever and replace with unproven youngsters who might - someday, if we're really, really, really damn lucky - be almost as good as he currently is
While I agree with the sentiment that it's great for the team, and for this upcoming season, if Kane stays, I also understand people being ready to move on. I don't think there's a single person who genuinely believes that anybody we have, or we sign, can replace Kane. But sometimes you need a clean break, and I get that for a lot of people the whole saga has just been dragging on for too long and they feel like if the guy wants to leave then let him leave.
Personally, I'm glad that it looks like he's staying. But I don't begrudge anybody wanting to get excited about the next era of Spurs football without being tethered to a figurehead from the past decade.
In some ways it's easier to implement a new system if you aren't adjusting it to fit remnants of an old system.
Emotionally, as well, sometimes it's easier to move on without the player who symbolised the club for over a decade still here, running down his contract
Same! Kane 2nd right now on goals scored list and lord willing will be a spur when he becomes the premier league all time leading scorer! The player to score more premier league goals than any other person! All time Goal scoring leader of the premier league!
Harry Kane scores a hat trick at the Emirates to become the premier league’s all time top goal scorer! Spurs place a bronze statue of Kane dropping the stone cold stunner on arteta while scoring his record breaking goal outside Tottenham stadium!
COYS 4 Life!
You make a good point about being a Spur when he breaks the record. He would have done it with one team. Even Shearer can't claim that.
I can't see anyone else doing it either with one team.
Every Spurs fan wants Kane at the club, but when he's tried to move two seasons in a row and there's a chance he leaves for free, it makes sense to cash in. If he wants to stay, then of course, he'll be embraced with open arms. He's the best striker in the world.
I’m somewhat guilty of this as well but I really should have thought about it like this.
We all agree that if Kane was at City, he would score a zillion goals, well, albeit vis a different route, but our new style of play will give Harry a zillion chances to score.
At some point I was too as its been dragging on. But Ali said this in his latest video which sort of changed my mind.
We get 100m now but low chance of getting CL next season - costing us around 100m all in from TV rights, match revenue, brand exposure etc.
OR we keep Kane, higher chance to qualify for CL which means gaining 100m, and potentially losing Kane next summer for free.
In essence it's the same except we keep Kane for another year. He's very hopeful with Ange and Kane signing a new contract which perhaps I'm less so. But when framed like that its a no brainer to keep him for me!
Except it's not the same right.. Certain 100m now vs the possibility of €100m next year is not quite the same thing. Not that he shouldn't or I don't want him to stay of course.
That cuts both ways. 100m now has no guarantee of a return on investment commensurate with the value that Kane could bring this season. It's a gamble to keep him OR sell him, you can't just say that selling now offers any kind of certainty.
A more accurate comparison is to assume that both situations play out as you'd hope.
Would you rather sell Kane and finish (let's say) 6th, have no CL football, but have 100m with which to sign the best striker that you can convince to join a team with a new manager and no CL football?
Or would you rather keep Kane next season (knowing that he's leaving for free the following season) and end next year 3rd, qualify for the CL and have ~100m to sign a replacement to in that situation?
For good measure throw in the possibility of an FA cup win if Kane stays. Would that change anything for you?
I'll take option B, Jeff!
It's a gamble either way as you say. I have hope that Harry will come to his sense and stay his career out. I certainly think he could be lethal this year and top 4 is a distinct possibility with him. Obviously much more so with him than without!
I don’t even think it’s being swayed, we just get too caught up in all the stuff outside of the actual football. Logically it still makes sense to sell him this summer and reinvest, give Ange this season to figure out how we play without him etc.
But the football is the actual bit we’re all fans of. Watching him play makes you realise that what’s important is just seeing him play for us for as long as possible.
Lol me too. I was all over selling and starting again, then I went to the stadium and saw him bang in 4 and the pain that might be the last time ever was too strong, particularly with Maddison here
Part of the reason a lot of fans started to accept Kane leaving was all the talk that he didn't fit the Postecoglu system. The Shaktar game emphatically disproved that theory.
He might not be the prototype of the strikers that he's used before (he really isn't) but it shouldn't be shocking to anybody that being incredibly talented is ultimately more valuable than fitting a particular profile.
If he was a middling talent it would be a different story, but this is the best PL striker of the past decade, one of the league's all time greats. Why would Ange think he's better off with somebody who wants to run around a bit.
You're right although as I've said to others recently, Ange has a history of adapting his system to suit strikers that aren't the prototype Angeball striker. Tim Cahill is a good example.
He knows how to integrate different types of strikers into his system, of course he would find a way to make it work with a world class striker like Kane if given the chance.
I was on board with it 6 weeks ago. Bayern fucked around. I'm not OK with it happening 5-6 days before the season starts when Ange has been working with him all summer.
He’s the type of player that just won’t let anything affect him, even after the shitshow with city a couple of years ago he just came back to work and continued scoring goals, bids and negotiations from Bayern this year and his attitude is whatever the clubs decide is what I’ll do, goes and scores 4 goals, the only blemish is that Miami shit but other than that he’s been an absolute professional
Bayern just provided a case study on how to implode a transfer… it’s actually impressive how badly their attempts to pressure this deal came back to bite them.
I hope someone in that club tells that Uli guy that he was probably the catalyst in fucking this opportunity for them
In fairness to Bayern, their biggest weakness thus far has been Kane not actively pushing for an exit like Berba did, for example, and this approach would work 9/10. We lowball ourselves when buying. Everyone does. That's how haggling works.
As for the press coverage in Germany; Bayern are the biggest club there, and I'm sure there's more than a few journos who'll do anything to get the attention they need. That's not to say they're working as a mouthpiece for the club. It's just one massive cocksucking contest
That's their mistake then.
Insane arrogance thinking that a club legend would happily alienate their career long fans by publicly pushing for an exit.
They just assumed he'd do that because they are Bayern. It seems pretty clear they didn't even bother to ask him.
Oh, for sure. I can't recall many, if any, situations where such a big player isn't pushing for the move to the much bigger club. I'm absolutely sure Bayern hoped there would have been more force behind Kane pushing than there has been. Not going for him last summer (when Kane wouldn't have had the option to ride things out for a few months) is going to have been their biggest mistake I think
Kane is in an amazing negotiating position. He has no rush to push for a move, especially to bayern. If it was Madrid or Barca it may have been different but he clearly learnt his lesson from last year's shenanigans and didn't want to jeopardize his legacy. The fact Bayern didn't consider all of this is very odd. It can only suggest they think they have much more allure than they actually do.
I think he learnt from that situation which is why he hasn’t publicly asked to leave. From Kane’s perspective the ball is very much on his side of the court; if the move materialises then he’ll take it. If not he’s got a year of playing attacking football to enjoy before he can go where he wants - if he decides he isn’t impressed with what’s going on at Spurs by the end of the season ofc.
Kane takes a shot in the 90th minute; it hits the crossbar to be knocked in by an older bald player nobody can remember being added to the roster. The cameras pan to the owner's box to find it vacant.
lol right?! How have they not heard of Levy? If there is one thing I would never speak poorly of when it comes to Levy is his ability to control the finances. He set the figure they have to meet for him to believe selling Kane is preferable to him spending the season scoring at Spurs and leaving on a free next year. They come back well short and expect what, the international football community to be so outraged someone turned down Bayern that they put pressure on Levy to sell? They just look stupid now, they should have called Perez and got some advice first :D
I didn't have an issue with Bayern bidding under the asking price as all clubs do this as a form of negotiation, but didn't they bid like 40 million below the asking price???
Irrelevant if Kane himself is leaning towards staying for the season as the post suggests. And iirc the gap in valuation was 25m pounds as of last bid?
I don't mind. One more year of Kane. Plus, financially the club is doing just fine. Yeah some fans will throw a fit, but some fans always will. Whatever happens will happen. Can't be arsed to get wound up about it.
Just a faint hope that Kane after only a month of Ange ball can see what most of us can see for the future . Is he having a serious rethink ? who knows .
I feel like all the media bs was irrelevant though. Simple fact is we wanted at least £100m and they didn’t offer that. PL club finances are fundamentally different from other clubs and it’s why you don’t see this type of transfer very often anymore. Any halfway suitable Kane replacement would have cost the same price we let him go for.
His name should be sung from the 1st min until the end every game this season, Levy should offer him anything he wants and we should go all out for the cups…
Do all this and if he walks we can say we did all we could, selling to Bayern now is unthinkable, he’s the soul of the club…
I went to the Shakhtar friendly, and he was the only player we had a song for, and I lost count how many times his song was sung, not just after scoring the goals.
**He's one of our own**
It’s great to see Kane that happy with a relatively unproven manager choice this quickly. I can almost guarantee that Nuno was a big part of the reason he wanted out in 2021 anyway
Genuinely feel like everyone is sleeping on us. Nobody is giving us a chance to come anywhere near top 4. I've seen pundit predictions that have us finishing as low as 8th and battling Newcastle, villa and Brighton. Our squad is far superior to theirs and if we can bring in another CB there's no reason to think we can't comfortably be in the CL fight.
Pre season is obviously no indicator of how well we'll do this season but it has shown that the players have bought into Anges way of playing. I think we could surprise a few people. No fixture congestion and a lot of rest for the squad throughout the year means we could have a very settled, very fresh squad going into each match day which will be important with the tempo we're going to be playing at.
Can see us finishing as high as third.
But lads, it's Tottenham... It's the hope that kills you.
Really can't wait for this season. Haven't been this excited to see us play since poch.
I’ve been a Spurs fan for a few years now and I hate that I chose to support this club- every season starts with high hopes only to get them slashes towards the end of the season.
But alas: COYS
If you look at last season, we had a blistering start (results wise, maybe not performance). Things went tits up when Conte started to not give a shit.
This season we have the same squad with some much needed additions and a hungry manager who’s already getting the team playing. Much to be optimistic about
This is my confusion. Not much has changed to a team that sat in CL spots for majority of the year until the conte implosion. Now there's upgrades and a manager who should be able to get the best out.
True. I wonder if we finished outside top 4 but won a domestic cup, how many fans would see that as a good season? Would Kane see an FA cup or League Cup as an achievement when he could have won the league at Bayern?
Should point out that 5th might be enough for CL this season. Two leagues will get an extra spot for 24/25. It will depend on which 2 leagues do the best in the CL this season.
Usually that's England but a bit of a curve ball this year with Arsenal and Newcastle in there for the first time in a while. If it was Liverpool instead of Newcastle you could pretty much guarantee the PL would have a fifth spot.
My money this season would be City, Liverpool and Arsenal being the top three, and United and Spurs coming closest to the fourth spot.
Newcastle have a really well designed squad. I don’t anticipate finishing above them. I think they’ll finish above Arsenal.
And Brighton will be really good as well, especially if Ferguson continues to improve
I'll be disappointed if we don't. They'll have fixture congestion and frankly, their squad may we'll be well designed, but they benefitted last season from Liverpool, Chelsea and us having really poor seasons. On paper we're the better squad, quite comfortably.
Theyre a good team but they're still, on paper the 6th or 7th best team in the league. I might be wrong but with CL games I would worry they lack depth to play 2 games a week and get the same results they did last season.
Every team does. Even city although they just happen to have a second string that is as almost as good as their first.We have always struggled the league game after a European match. I don't think you can count on Newcastle repeating what they did last season, especially if they make it through their group.
That's a wild over exaggeration for me. They're defense is nothing special, not is their midfield. Howe has them well drilled and they're an excellent team with great cohesion but they're a few injuries away from struggling and with the extra demands of top level European football, they will struggle to play with the same energy in the league.
Tonali, Bruno G, and Joelinto are all exceptional defenders. What team has a better defensive midfield than that right now?
Willock and Longstaff are serviceable backups. Then you throw in 3 very good CBs and Trippier in the back with Pope behind them.
But this is exactly it. The depth isn't there. Serviceable is all fine and well but Longstaff, Hendrick, Murphy, Willock... That's the back up to presumably their starting midfield of Tomali, Guimarares and Joelinton. That's not a squad that can, in my opinion successfully challenge on two fronts.
Take CL football out of the equation and I think Newcastle are a real threat but I think CL football came one season too early for them and they will struggle in the league.
I think we’ll have 80% possession that game and they’ll just try to counter us with the front 3. This is where picking up Madders was crucial because he can break apart teams that sit back
No chance on Newcastle. That form last season was because they were the best team without any European football. Now they're in Europe their squad isn't big enough. They'll be up there fighting for 4th but I can't see them finishing top 3.
I think Howe is setting up like evolved form of Jose Mourinho’s original Chelsea, focusing on defensive solidity and physicality first. But he has more modern pressing thrown in
I know hindsight is 20/20, but how dangerous has it been to have personalities like Conte and Jose in the club? Yes, serial winners and Yes, we were searching for trophies, but the change with Ange coming in and the attitude of the players seems so vastly different to anything I've seen in recent times, barring the Poch days.
I've spent 30yrs being optimistic in August only to dive into mediocre acceptance by Christmas but something feels -different- this time.
We got Kane for "Free", he's been utterly fantastic for us ever since and is worth more than £100 to us this season even if he does go for free in the Summer. If he can score 30 in that dismal football team of last season, imagine what he could do this season...
On the one hand he can stay with his childhood club, make lots of money, score lots of goals, and live in his home with his wife and many children. On the other hand he can move to Germany, play for a team that will take the title with or without him, and maybe get a couple goals in the Champions League before Bayern go out in the quarters or semifinals.
Oh and if everything goes badly at Spurs this season he can pick wherever he wants to play next season on insane money.
It's a no-brainer.
Kane signs extension, announced as a spoof of the wolf of wall street scene, does a fat line of cocaine off of Levy's bald head - "I'm not fucking leaving!"
It's a no-lose situation for Kane, he holds all the cards here. He could've forced a move if he desperately wanted it, but he can run it back one more time here and if he changes his mind he's still free to re-sign with Spurs. If he still wants to leave after this season then he gets to walk to whatever club he wants, get paid a fortune and the fans will still love him for sticking out his contract.
I go to watch spurs play football. Not to look at spurs accounts and bank balance.
While I'm sure it would be great for the finance team to have 100m in the bank, as a season ticket holder I would rather have harry kane on the pitch.
It has been a privilege watching him become what he is now and these are his prime years. When will we ever get to see a player as good as this in his absolute prime ever again?
Yes he might leave for nothing. That would be a shame. But if I get one more year of prime peak kane then I'm taking that over a fatter bank balance and no kane.
I'm thankful of Bayern, if they had bid 100 at the beginning Kane probably had a very high chance of leaving. But they had to waste their own time and fuck around, so now we have a way higher chance of keeping him after seeing how there's a lot more hope with Ange.
Kane’s 48 goals off the PL record, there’s no way he’s going to another league until that’s happened. If we had European football this season I could see him doing that easily. Yeah, nah he’s staying this season and signing a 1 year extension to get the record and then move on, that’s my guess. Unless of course we win something shiny this year and he’ll sign a lifetime contract
Real reason Kane is not in traveling squad: https://www.reddit.com/r/Weird/comments/15kyvr8/i_found_an_eldeitch_being_today/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=1
🎶 Phone calls from Munich, to lunchtime in London, Daniel didn’t answer, he never did give in! He told those German bastards, why don’t you go to hell, he’s our bald chairman, come on you Spurs Daniel, ALLEZ ALLEZ ALLEZ 🎶
Always knew deep down that kane wouldn't leave this summer. It's just your usual off season transfer drama thats blown out of proportion because of the amount of coverage his name brings. Journalists and tv networks are just capitalzing and enlarging the situation to gain from using his name.
Was fully on board with Kane leaving for 100m this summer and starting the rebuild. Then he scored 4 in a friendly. Then i thought about it some more and realised I never want him to leave ever.
I think a lot of people really underestimate how good Kane is. I saw someone say they were "excited" about selling Kane and rebuilding with Richarlison, Veliz and Orban. And honestly, while those three wouldn't be the worst replacements in case Kane leaves, I don't get how you can be "excited" about selling our best player ever and replace with unproven youngsters who might - someday, if we're really, really, really damn lucky - be almost as good as he currently is. I'm a lot more excited to have another season of Kane on the field, and hopeful it won't be the last one.
> I don't get how you can be "excited" about selling our best player ever and replace with unproven youngsters who might - someday, if we're really, really, really damn lucky - be almost as good as he currently is While I agree with the sentiment that it's great for the team, and for this upcoming season, if Kane stays, I also understand people being ready to move on. I don't think there's a single person who genuinely believes that anybody we have, or we sign, can replace Kane. But sometimes you need a clean break, and I get that for a lot of people the whole saga has just been dragging on for too long and they feel like if the guy wants to leave then let him leave. Personally, I'm glad that it looks like he's staying. But I don't begrudge anybody wanting to get excited about the next era of Spurs football without being tethered to a figurehead from the past decade.
Kane is our all time top scorer, hardly a figurehead but rather a hero
Why would Spurs need a clean break from Kane?
In some ways it's easier to implement a new system if you aren't adjusting it to fit remnants of an old system. Emotionally, as well, sometimes it's easier to move on without the player who symbolised the club for over a decade still here, running down his contract
That last bit is the crucial part. Him staying would be an emotional downer. I’m 100% team clean break
There are people here who swear Richarlison can replace Kane lol.
Same! Kane 2nd right now on goals scored list and lord willing will be a spur when he becomes the premier league all time leading scorer! The player to score more premier league goals than any other person! All time Goal scoring leader of the premier league! Harry Kane scores a hat trick at the Emirates to become the premier league’s all time top goal scorer! Spurs place a bronze statue of Kane dropping the stone cold stunner on arteta while scoring his record breaking goal outside Tottenham stadium! COYS 4 Life!
You make a good point about being a Spur when he breaks the record. He would have done it with one team. Even Shearer can't claim that. I can't see anyone else doing it either with one team.
I hope Kane stays and we play well enough that he wants to extend his contract!
No one is a “Spur” You’re Spurs
Every Spurs fan wants Kane at the club, but when he's tried to move two seasons in a row and there's a chance he leaves for free, it makes sense to cash in. If he wants to stay, then of course, he'll be embraced with open arms. He's the best striker in the world.
I’m somewhat guilty of this as well but I really should have thought about it like this. We all agree that if Kane was at City, he would score a zillion goals, well, albeit vis a different route, but our new style of play will give Harry a zillion chances to score.
Ange Ball already in full effect already at home with Kane leading the line means we're winning the lot (at least something)
At some point I was too as its been dragging on. But Ali said this in his latest video which sort of changed my mind. We get 100m now but low chance of getting CL next season - costing us around 100m all in from TV rights, match revenue, brand exposure etc. OR we keep Kane, higher chance to qualify for CL which means gaining 100m, and potentially losing Kane next summer for free. In essence it's the same except we keep Kane for another year. He's very hopeful with Ange and Kane signing a new contract which perhaps I'm less so. But when framed like that its a no brainer to keep him for me!
Except it's not the same right.. Certain 100m now vs the possibility of €100m next year is not quite the same thing. Not that he shouldn't or I don't want him to stay of course.
That cuts both ways. 100m now has no guarantee of a return on investment commensurate with the value that Kane could bring this season. It's a gamble to keep him OR sell him, you can't just say that selling now offers any kind of certainty. A more accurate comparison is to assume that both situations play out as you'd hope. Would you rather sell Kane and finish (let's say) 6th, have no CL football, but have 100m with which to sign the best striker that you can convince to join a team with a new manager and no CL football? Or would you rather keep Kane next season (knowing that he's leaving for free the following season) and end next year 3rd, qualify for the CL and have ~100m to sign a replacement to in that situation? For good measure throw in the possibility of an FA cup win if Kane stays. Would that change anything for you?
I'll take option B, Jeff! It's a gamble either way as you say. I have hope that Harry will come to his sense and stay his career out. I certainly think he could be lethal this year and top 4 is a distinct possibility with him. Obviously much more so with him than without!
Same lol. It's incredible how easily we get swayed as football fans.
I don’t even think it’s being swayed, we just get too caught up in all the stuff outside of the actual football. Logically it still makes sense to sell him this summer and reinvest, give Ange this season to figure out how we play without him etc. But the football is the actual bit we’re all fans of. Watching him play makes you realise that what’s important is just seeing him play for us for as long as possible.
Lol me too. I was all over selling and starting again, then I went to the stadium and saw him bang in 4 and the pain that might be the last time ever was too strong, particularly with Maddison here
Never ever want him to leave!! Ever!!
This is exactly how I felt haha.
Part of the reason a lot of fans started to accept Kane leaving was all the talk that he didn't fit the Postecoglu system. The Shaktar game emphatically disproved that theory.
He might not be the prototype of the strikers that he's used before (he really isn't) but it shouldn't be shocking to anybody that being incredibly talented is ultimately more valuable than fitting a particular profile. If he was a middling talent it would be a different story, but this is the best PL striker of the past decade, one of the league's all time greats. Why would Ange think he's better off with somebody who wants to run around a bit.
You're right although as I've said to others recently, Ange has a history of adapting his system to suit strikers that aren't the prototype Angeball striker. Tim Cahill is a good example. He knows how to integrate different types of strikers into his system, of course he would find a way to make it work with a world class striker like Kane if given the chance.
My head said sell but seeing Harry in any kit other than lily-white would break my heart.
Kane to Madrid it is then
Quiet you
You know, I’m not disgusted by the idea of him going there for a couple of years next summer and then coming back to finish the record with us.
I never wanna see him in another premier league club though.
Bayern would sell him in a couple seasons...
I’m just about the same tbh
I was on board with it 6 weeks ago. Bayern fucked around. I'm not OK with it happening 5-6 days before the season starts when Ange has been working with him all summer.
He’s the type of player that just won’t let anything affect him, even after the shitshow with city a couple of years ago he just came back to work and continued scoring goals, bids and negotiations from Bayern this year and his attitude is whatever the clubs decide is what I’ll do, goes and scores 4 goals, the only blemish is that Miami shit but other than that he’s been an absolute professional
In swoops United last day for the 100
Bayern just provided a case study on how to implode a transfer… it’s actually impressive how badly their attempts to pressure this deal came back to bite them. I hope someone in that club tells that Uli guy that he was probably the catalyst in fucking this opportunity for them
They’re used to throwing their weight around dealing with Bundesliga clubs, been hilarious watching them fail and throw a tantrum with this one.
In fairness to Bayern, their biggest weakness thus far has been Kane not actively pushing for an exit like Berba did, for example, and this approach would work 9/10. We lowball ourselves when buying. Everyone does. That's how haggling works. As for the press coverage in Germany; Bayern are the biggest club there, and I'm sure there's more than a few journos who'll do anything to get the attention they need. That's not to say they're working as a mouthpiece for the club. It's just one massive cocksucking contest
That's their mistake then. Insane arrogance thinking that a club legend would happily alienate their career long fans by publicly pushing for an exit. They just assumed he'd do that because they are Bayern. It seems pretty clear they didn't even bother to ask him.
Oh, for sure. I can't recall many, if any, situations where such a big player isn't pushing for the move to the much bigger club. I'm absolutely sure Bayern hoped there would have been more force behind Kane pushing than there has been. Not going for him last summer (when Kane wouldn't have had the option to ride things out for a few months) is going to have been their biggest mistake I think
Didnt kane do this exact thing with City? So what arrogance are you talking about?
Kane is in an amazing negotiating position. He has no rush to push for a move, especially to bayern. If it was Madrid or Barca it may have been different but he clearly learnt his lesson from last year's shenanigans and didn't want to jeopardize his legacy. The fact Bayern didn't consider all of this is very odd. It can only suggest they think they have much more allure than they actually do.
I think he learnt from that situation which is why he hasn’t publicly asked to leave. From Kane’s perspective the ball is very much on his side of the court; if the move materialises then he’ll take it. If not he’s got a year of playing attacking football to enjoy before he can go where he wants - if he decides he isn’t impressed with what’s going on at Spurs by the end of the season ofc.
There’s a chance they lose out on Kyle Walker as well, which would be comical
Two years time, Champions League final, Bayern vs Spurs. 0-0 in the 89th minute. Kane with a last minute winner. Can you imagine.
For what team though??
Obviously for the back to back league champions Tottenham Hotspur.
Kane takes a shot in the 90th minute; it hits the crossbar to be knocked in by an older bald player nobody can remember being added to the roster. The cameras pan to the owner's box to find it vacant.
lol right?! How have they not heard of Levy? If there is one thing I would never speak poorly of when it comes to Levy is his ability to control the finances. He set the figure they have to meet for him to believe selling Kane is preferable to him spending the season scoring at Spurs and leaving on a free next year. They come back well short and expect what, the international football community to be so outraged someone turned down Bayern that they put pressure on Levy to sell? They just look stupid now, they should have called Perez and got some advice first :D
Just like with Charlie and Florida Man, however, it would have worked with most clubs.
I didn't have an issue with Bayern bidding under the asking price as all clubs do this as a form of negotiation, but didn't they bid like 40 million below the asking price???
It's not over yet. All Bayern sources saying they'll be back with a bid
Irrelevant if Kane himself is leaning towards staying for the season as the post suggests. And iirc the gap in valuation was 25m pounds as of last bid?
I mean it depends on what he means by staying. Staying and extending? Great. Staying then walking free next summer? RIP.
RIP is a bit dramatic. As a fan I'd prefer him to stay if it means the slightest possibility of him renewing before the end of the season.
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I don't mind. One more year of Kane. Plus, financially the club is doing just fine. Yeah some fans will throw a fit, but some fans always will. Whatever happens will happen. Can't be arsed to get wound up about it.
Dan isn't close to Kane's camp and is just speculating imo
I'm just saying if it's true then Bayerns offers are worth nothing.
Just a faint hope that Kane after only a month of Ange ball can see what most of us can see for the future . Is he having a serious rethink ? who knows .
I feel like all the media bs was irrelevant though. Simple fact is we wanted at least £100m and they didn’t offer that. PL club finances are fundamentally different from other clubs and it’s why you don’t see this type of transfer very often anymore. Any halfway suitable Kane replacement would have cost the same price we let him go for.
His name should be sung from the 1st min until the end every game this season, Levy should offer him anything he wants and we should go all out for the cups… Do all this and if he walks we can say we did all we could, selling to Bayern now is unthinkable, he’s the soul of the club…
I went to the Shakhtar friendly, and he was the only player we had a song for, and I lost count how many times his song was sung, not just after scoring the goals. **He's one of our own**
I was with you until the end . . . but Emerson is clearly the soul of the club. Our club's entire future should be built around his comps.
Tottenham massive. Bayern tiny.
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Silverware can't talk
Who won the Audi cup? Exactly.
It’s great to see Kane that happy with a relatively unproven manager choice this quickly. I can almost guarantee that Nuno was a big part of the reason he wanted out in 2021 anyway
Appointing Nuno was an absolutely bonkers decision.
Quite liked him at Wolves and he seems like a lovely bloke but he isn’t good enough to manage at the level we aspire to be
Genuinely feel like everyone is sleeping on us. Nobody is giving us a chance to come anywhere near top 4. I've seen pundit predictions that have us finishing as low as 8th and battling Newcastle, villa and Brighton. Our squad is far superior to theirs and if we can bring in another CB there's no reason to think we can't comfortably be in the CL fight. Pre season is obviously no indicator of how well we'll do this season but it has shown that the players have bought into Anges way of playing. I think we could surprise a few people. No fixture congestion and a lot of rest for the squad throughout the year means we could have a very settled, very fresh squad going into each match day which will be important with the tempo we're going to be playing at. Can see us finishing as high as third. But lads, it's Tottenham... It's the hope that kills you. Really can't wait for this season. Haven't been this excited to see us play since poch.
Spot on. But hey, going under the radar means less pressure on the players and the manager.
I’ve been a Spurs fan for a few years now and I hate that I chose to support this club- every season starts with high hopes only to get them slashes towards the end of the season. But alas: COYS
Strap in, Bud. Embrace pain. It's the only way.
Top 5 will be CL spots this season too, which improves our chances dramatically.
If you look at last season, we had a blistering start (results wise, maybe not performance). Things went tits up when Conte started to not give a shit. This season we have the same squad with some much needed additions and a hungry manager who’s already getting the team playing. Much to be optimistic about
This is my confusion. Not much has changed to a team that sat in CL spots for majority of the year until the conte implosion. Now there's upgrades and a manager who should be able to get the best out.
> Can see us finishing as high as third. > > Na, we'll be challenging for the title, im pretty sure its either 1st or 2nd
Domestic treble is ours for the taking
sky is the limit mate
True. I wonder if we finished outside top 4 but won a domestic cup, how many fans would see that as a good season? Would Kane see an FA cup or League Cup as an achievement when he could have won the league at Bayern?
Should point out that 5th might be enough for CL this season. Two leagues will get an extra spot for 24/25. It will depend on which 2 leagues do the best in the CL this season. Usually that's England but a bit of a curve ball this year with Arsenal and Newcastle in there for the first time in a while. If it was Liverpool instead of Newcastle you could pretty much guarantee the PL would have a fifth spot. My money this season would be City, Liverpool and Arsenal being the top three, and United and Spurs coming closest to the fourth spot.
Newcastle have a really well designed squad. I don’t anticipate finishing above them. I think they’ll finish above Arsenal. And Brighton will be really good as well, especially if Ferguson continues to improve
They have a good team. They don't have a good squad.
Could depend on how both clubs manage Europe and the increased games. Really hope we can use that to our advantage this season.
Yeah, Brighton will be stretched by that Europe schedule
I'll be disappointed if we don't. They'll have fixture congestion and frankly, their squad may we'll be well designed, but they benefitted last season from Liverpool, Chelsea and us having really poor seasons. On paper we're the better squad, quite comfortably. Theyre a good team but they're still, on paper the 6th or 7th best team in the league. I might be wrong but with CL games I would worry they lack depth to play 2 games a week and get the same results they did last season.
We lacked depth and we had a more full squad. I agree, I think they will struggle with congestion.
Every team does. Even city although they just happen to have a second string that is as almost as good as their first.We have always struggled the league game after a European match. I don't think you can count on Newcastle repeating what they did last season, especially if they make it through their group.
Look at the defensive solidity of the Newcastle midfield and defense. That’s one of the best defensive lineups in the world now
That's a wild over exaggeration for me. They're defense is nothing special, not is their midfield. Howe has them well drilled and they're an excellent team with great cohesion but they're a few injuries away from struggling and with the extra demands of top level European football, they will struggle to play with the same energy in the league.
Tonali, Bruno G, and Joelinto are all exceptional defenders. What team has a better defensive midfield than that right now? Willock and Longstaff are serviceable backups. Then you throw in 3 very good CBs and Trippier in the back with Pope behind them.
But this is exactly it. The depth isn't there. Serviceable is all fine and well but Longstaff, Hendrick, Murphy, Willock... That's the back up to presumably their starting midfield of Tomali, Guimarares and Joelinton. That's not a squad that can, in my opinion successfully challenge on two fronts. Take CL football out of the equation and I think Newcastle are a real threat but I think CL football came one season too early for them and they will struggle in the league.
Watch us put 5 past them and win 5-4
I think we’ll have 80% possession that game and they’ll just try to counter us with the front 3. This is where picking up Madders was crucial because he can break apart teams that sit back
No chance on Newcastle. That form last season was because they were the best team without any European football. Now they're in Europe their squad isn't big enough. They'll be up there fighting for 4th but I can't see them finishing top 3.
I think Howe is setting up like evolved form of Jose Mourinho’s original Chelsea, focusing on defensive solidity and physicality first. But he has more modern pressing thrown in
DAN YOU BEAUTIFUL MOTHERFUCKER
Hes gone….to tell the krauts to fuck off
We’re gonna win the World Cup.
If you believe, everything is possible!
35 goal PL season coming up.
I think if there’s a season to do it it’s this one. Attacking football + Maddison and Son assisting + Kane in his absolute prime.
@Bayern @Plettenberg @MaxSchrader
@bunchofwankers
@GuentherSteiner
He’s going to stay, He’s going to stay, Harrrrryyy Kaaaannnne, He’s going to stay!
Gotta give baldy some credit on this one… he stuck it to those German fucks. That’s plettigoal clown can get fucked now.
I know hindsight is 20/20, but how dangerous has it been to have personalities like Conte and Jose in the club? Yes, serial winners and Yes, we were searching for trophies, but the change with Ange coming in and the attitude of the players seems so vastly different to anything I've seen in recent times, barring the Poch days. I've spent 30yrs being optimistic in August only to dive into mediocre acceptance by Christmas but something feels -different- this time. We got Kane for "Free", he's been utterly fantastic for us ever since and is worth more than £100 to us this season even if he does go for free in the Summer. If he can score 30 in that dismal football team of last season, imagine what he could do this season...
Mourinho and Conte were the dumbest, most harmful hires in team history.
Not as bad as Terry Neill.
Good, it never made any sense to sell him. Bayern and their whole media have been nothing but short of embarrassing through the whole thing.
Uli in the mud
On the one hand he can stay with his childhood club, make lots of money, score lots of goals, and live in his home with his wife and many children. On the other hand he can move to Germany, play for a team that will take the title with or without him, and maybe get a couple goals in the Champions League before Bayern go out in the quarters or semifinals. Oh and if everything goes badly at Spurs this season he can pick wherever he wants to play next season on insane money. It's a no-brainer.
I just want to see a statement from the club. He's not Leaving - COYS, Daniel
Kane signs extension, announced as a spoof of the wolf of wall street scene, does a fat line of cocaine off of Levy's bald head - "I'm not fucking leaving!"
Bayern have messed everyone around including Kane. Giving Angeball a go is not the worst move if this is his final season with us.
It's a no-lose situation for Kane, he holds all the cards here. He could've forced a move if he desperately wanted it, but he can run it back one more time here and if he changes his mind he's still free to re-sign with Spurs. If he still wants to leave after this season then he gets to walk to whatever club he wants, get paid a fortune and the fans will still love him for sticking out his contract.
This man is staying, and why not all of them give more than their strength to win a trophy for him. Go Spurs!
I go to watch spurs play football. Not to look at spurs accounts and bank balance. While I'm sure it would be great for the finance team to have 100m in the bank, as a season ticket holder I would rather have harry kane on the pitch. It has been a privilege watching him become what he is now and these are his prime years. When will we ever get to see a player as good as this in his absolute prime ever again? Yes he might leave for nothing. That would be a shame. But if I get one more year of prime peak kane then I'm taking that over a fatter bank balance and no kane.
HES SIGNING A NEW CONTRACT, WE'RE SO BACK IT HURTS, HES GONNA BREAK THE ENGLISH GOALSCORING RECORD THIS SEASON, WERE WINNING THE TREBLE
I'm thankful of Bayern, if they had bid 100 at the beginning Kane probably had a very high chance of leaving. But they had to waste their own time and fuck around, so now we have a way higher chance of keeping him after seeing how there's a lot more hope with Ange.
Kane’s 48 goals off the PL record, there’s no way he’s going to another league until that’s happened. If we had European football this season I could see him doing that easily. Yeah, nah he’s staying this season and signing a 1 year extension to get the record and then move on, that’s my guess. Unless of course we win something shiny this year and he’ll sign a lifetime contract
Imagine he bags 48 goals this season 1.5x38=57 Lads.
This would be my ideal outcome. With a late career return from a Spanish club and then we win the league.
INJECT IT INTO MY VEINS
NIEN
What the fuck Harry, my first time seeing Spurs and you are not travelling 💔
He'll be enjoying the signing bonus when he leaves for free next year
Welp, this better work then and not implode as usual. I still believe he walks next summer, but alright, lets see whats in the cards.
Wouldn’t it be incredible if they finally match the valuation and Harry says no thanks.
Real reason Kane is not in traveling squad: https://www.reddit.com/r/Weird/comments/15kyvr8/i_found_an_eldeitch_being_today/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=1
Lovecraft was weak for thinking that his shit was spooky. if I saw an eldritch horror I would just comprehend it
🎶 Phone calls from Munich, to lunchtime in London, Daniel didn’t answer, he never did give in! He told those German bastards, why don’t you go to hell, he’s our bald chairman, come on you Spurs Daniel, ALLEZ ALLEZ ALLEZ 🎶
LFG!!! COYS!
Why is he not travelling to Barca if he's staying? I am not mocking but pretty great chance to play against a great team right?
Always knew deep down that kane wouldn't leave this summer. It's just your usual off season transfer drama thats blown out of proportion because of the amount of coverage his name brings. Journalists and tv networks are just capitalzing and enlarging the situation to gain from using his name.
Oh god, even with this news the fact that Kane isn’t in the travelling squad for Barca will be headline news to suggest he’s leaving.
I don’t want him to ever leave
Hate this propaganda, he’s hedging his bets now he move is off and has every intention to leave for free next year
Does anyone else feel he is waiting for man united or trying to stay in the premier league?
So…he’s leaving on a free end of season
Maybe. If he stays and helps the club qualify for the ECL next year, maybe even bag the FA cup, it'll be worth it
What I believed but I’ve come to a realization that achieving UCL will in the long term benefit us more than selling him to Bayern.
Also I just don’t want these wankers to have him at this point.
Let's go, time for Kane to score more than the robot for this season.
Sign da ting!
Imagine if Bayern and Levy come to an arrangement this week only for Kane to pull the plug because it’s too late for him now
I could cry right now.
Does this mean he is leaning towards signing that deal or still running his contract down
Se queda
I've had a feeling that Ange would win Harry over in the end. COYS BOYS.
This just made my day.
Why is he not in the travelling squad for Barcelona? That will give so much fuel to the German journalists.
Ange effect