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stormfly

stormfly

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Ginola+Tonic said:
Maybe a unpopular opinion but I really hope he smashes it at Bayern, I wish him all the best and hope he wins everything.
I absolutely loved him playing for Tottenham and he’s given me a lot of great moments watching him.
He’s a true great and I’m devastated.

Good luck Harry ❤️
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I really don’t care either way. I won’t be following him at all unless Bayern play in the latter stages of the CL.
 
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jay2040

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Rocksuperstar said:
So... hands up who just put their programme from the Shakhtar game somewhere safe - if he's gone, that'll be the last time he appears in that squad list.
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I was actually after a program as sons first game at stadium though could not find any at the time. Will have probably gone up in price on fleabay!
 
Timberwolf

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The reason he stayed so long isn't because of love for the club IMO - because we were good, had a great manager and were challenging for trophies when Levy convinced him to sign the 6 year deal. Why move when everything is going well and you're getting offered a massive new deal?

Once he signed that deal he basically had no way out for 5 years.

If we'd been worse in 2018 he would've not signed the deal and left ages ago. I'm sure he has a deep connection with the club but if we'd not matched his ambitions at the time he wouldn't have stayed out of loyalty or love.
 
smithym

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If we’d of given him titles he’d still be here. Don’t blame him, should of gone a long time ago in retrospect.
He deserves his shot at glory.

Doesn’t change the fact that going to Bayern for trophies is like losing your virginity to a hooker, but being real we’d all prefer a hooker from time to time.

Good luck H, happy shagging.
 
McFlash

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Tezza1978 said:
Chris Sutton
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I think that's down to his Celtic connections, he'd probably love to give us grief but because he loves Celtic and Ange was great for them, he's stuck with having to be nice about Ange, rather than neing his usual antagonist self.
 
DenverSpur

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Birthday today and wake up to 60 odd more pages in the thread!!

What a day to see, probably, our best academy player ever(Hoddle says hello) leave for that despicable Bavarian club. I would have kept him for this season regardless of the consequences. If you want to achieve things you should never sell your best player and regardless of what others have said as he didn't cost us anything we would not be losing anything by him leaving on a free - he would do so eventually if he'd signed a new contract. If he'd then gone to a rival well that would have been his karma - and Levy's. That it came to this point is down to Levy and his incompetent running of the football side of the club. Kane isn't blameless either in leaving Postecoglu up the creek 2 days before our start of the season.

In many ways I'm a bit ambivalent about him going. When Harry first came through it was exciting to see him prove to one and all he was no one season wonder but part of my ambivalence comes from the fact that somewhere in the later years of Poch's tenure I got this feeling that it had become less that Harry was working for Tottenham and more we were working for him and his personal goals. A lot of that is Poch's fault but it never sat right with me that we never gave our backup strikers any game time because Harry didn't want to come off as he was chasing the Golden Boot. That wasn't in the best interest of the team. This deference to Harry's wishes came to a head at the CL Final when we put his interests ahead of the team's interests. He, and Poch, both knew he wasn't fit enough to start the game and would have been more useful to the team coming on as a substitute in the second half. We'd beaten ManC in the QF and Ajax in the SF without him so the team had proven they could successfully compete without him. Ultimately it was Poch who had the responsibility and made the wrong call but for me Harry didn't come out of it well.
Also I know its not a popular opinion but for all the great goals he scored and great performance he put in for us he seemed to lack that X factor which raises really good players to the level of greatness, He never seemed to be able to raise his game in the big trophy defining games. That's not a criticism of him just an observation. In may be unfair but in the really big games teams look to their star players to put in a inspiring performance to help pull the team over the line. Unfortunately Harry never did which is sad for both us and him. As I said in an earlier post we really needed him to be our Derek Jeter but instead we got Alex Rodriguez. He gave us great goals, great memories but sadly no prize at the end of it.

Now he's gone but Tottenham Hotspur will keep on keeping on even despite Daniel Levy's mismanagement. I've seen us loose Greaves, Hoddle , Gazza, Modric and Bale and at least 3 of them exits affected me worse than this one. Wrong as it may be, but I'm an English Football Supporter and we're tribal; you're either one of us or you're against us, and Harry Kane has decided he is no longer one of us so for me he's just someone who used to wear the shirt and who deserted us. The memories will linger but not the affection.

Now is the start of a new era under Ange Postecoglou. I think he's going to be a breath of fresh air especially after the last few years but although I'm fairly confident he will be a success with us the first few months may be a struggle so we all need to be patient
 
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Snuzzy

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alpha said:
He was an Arsenal fan. His wife Katie and long time partner is Spurs fan.
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My very minor personal experience of this is just teaching a few boys who went on to be pros to varying levels of lower league success, but as soon as they got selected as an *actual footballer* for an *actual club* whatever club they thought they supported before became an irrelevance, because they were now on the other side of that glass wall *so* many of their peers would only ever press their nose against, and everything was immediately and irrevocably different.

I think seeing it as relevant the club someone supported before they got picked up by an academy is like thinking it important what make of toy car an F1 driver played with when little.
 
Bluto Blutarsky

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DenverSpur said:
Birthday today and wake up to 60 odd more pages in the thread!!

What a day to see, probably, our best academy player ever(Hoddle says hello) leave for that despicable Bavarian club. I would have kept him for this season regardless of the consequences. If you want to achieve things you should never sell your best player and regardless of what others have said as he didn't cost us anything we would not be losing anything by him leaving on a free - he would do so eventually if he'd signed a new contract. If he'd then gone to a rival well that would have been his karma - and Levy's. That it came to this point is down to Levy and his incompetent running of the football side of the club. Kane isn't blameless either in leaving Postecoglu up the creek 2 days before our start of the season.

In many ways I'm a bit ambivalent about him going. When Harry first came through it was exciting to see him prove to one and all he was no one season wonder but part of my ambivalence comes from the fact that somewhere in the later years of Poch's tenure I got this feeling that it had become less that Harry was working for Tottenham and more we were working for him and his personal goals. A lot of that is Poch's fault but it never sat right with me that we never gave our backup strikers any game time because Harry didn't want to come off as he was chasing the Golden Boot. That wasn't in the best interest of the team. This deference to Harry's wishes came to a head at the CL Final when we put his interests ahead of the team's interests. He, and Poch, both knew he wasn't fit enough to start the game and would have been more useful to the team coming on as a substitute in the second half. We'd beaten ManC in the QF and Ajax in the SF without him so the team had proven they could successfully compete without him. Ultimately it was Poch who had the responsibility and made the wrong call but for me Harry didn't come out of it well.
Also I know its not a popular opinion but for all the great goals he scored and great performance he put in for us he seemed to lack that X factor which raises really good players to the level of greatness, He never seemed to be able to raise his game in the big trophy defining games. That's not a criticism of him just an observation. In may be unfair but in the really big games teams look to their star players to put in a inspiring performance to help pull the team over the line. Unfortunately Harry never did which is sad for both us and him. As I said in an earlier post we really needed him to be our Derek Jeter but instead we got Alex Rodriguez. He gave us great goals, great memories but sadly no prize at the end of it.

Now he's gone but Tottenham Hotspur will keep on keeping on even despite Daniel Levy's mismanagement. I've seen us loose Greaves, Hoddle , Gazza, Modric and Bale and at least 3 of them exits affected me worse than this one. Wrong as it may be, but I'm an English Football Supporter and we're tribal; you're either one of us or you're against us, and Harry Kane has decided he is no longer one of us so for me he's just someone who used to wear the shirt and who deserted us. The memories will linger but not the affection.

Now is the start of a new era under Ange Postecoglou. I think he's going to be a breath of fresh air especially after the last few years but although I'm fairly confident he will be. asuccess with us the first few months may be a struggle so we all need to be patient
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Happy Birthday @Bulletspur !
 
nedley

nedley

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Watching those videos makes me feel as though my Mrs has just left me for some young buck with a massive choad that makes her eyes roll to the back of her head. I feel dreadful 😞
 
KirstyG

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GMI said:
Maybe it should stay in situ in recognition of a truly great Spurs player? One of the very best.
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Someone mentioned that we should have a few more mural walls like Greaves, Hoddle, Gaza etc as will balance it out and then won’t be quite as embarrassing while celebrating our heritage.
That and that long awaited Bill Nic statue!!! I wish we could really get the club to take notice.
 
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piedpiper

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samspurs92 said:
I just don’t understand how he’s been loyal.

Tried to go to city, didn’t turn up to training and behaved awfully.

Next opportunity, he jumps at it.

Just because he played well doesn’t mean he was loyal to Tottenham
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Lol.... fans aren't loyal to players that put on the shirt and you expect loyalty from them....... a footballer has 1 career let him live it. If our owners showed ambition when he burst on the scene and the owners spent proper money we'd have won some trophies and he'd maybe been here until the age if 34 possibly.

He has given his best years to Spurs... he leaves with my blessings and heartfelt thanks for staying all the years that he did.
 
npearl4spurs

npearl4spurs

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As @Trix already alluded to, please lock this thread and start another in General Football.

This thread deserved gold status but has started to go downhill with some really petty and cringeworthy posts in the last 20 odd pages. Just save it and lock it away and preserve it.
 
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