Harry Kane

[thePessimist]

honestly can’t understand why he’s not handed in a transfer request. sure he won’t get the loyalty bonus but how much could that be compared to the upside of a better contract at city??

i’d respect him so much more if he just came out and stated he wanted to leave because of blablabla. obviously, at this point he’s fucked up the whole process massively...

 

[glacierSpurs]

I'm seriously detesting him so much because he is disrupting so much of our rebuilding efforts with his selfish antics.

 

[JeremyPaxton]

Just throwing this out there…

In Kane’s own mind, if he’d have have tried a bit harder and not been shit in the league cup final, helping us to win it, it’d mean he’d have to stay…

Now that there are so many questions about his so-called professionalism, it does make you wonder if his heart was really in the final.

I don’t think either Kane brother can really see that many moves ahead @Rob

 

[dsl]

To be honest mate I quit playing in 18/19?

If there was a gentleman's agreement that he could go, it certainly wasn't for a fucking discount price. It was always going to be for a crazy transfer fee so the club could build and replace him.

Secondly, regarding professionalism. That fucking interview with Neville was not professional. Unsettling the side before the end of the season was not professional. Creating a massive distraction before preseason and disrespecting the new coach is not professional. If he wasn't meant to be back for training at the start of that week he could have easily killed that story instantly, instead it went on for a week and it did so because we know he's not entirely being truthful.

I initially thought that Hk coming up with the gentleman s agreement was down to naivety.

Now with this continuous repetition l am starting to believe that he or Charlie is making up the whole story.

We know that Levy is the CEO and director of a corporate body and has a duty to act in the best interests of the club.

To believe that Levy would break his fiduciary duty, by entering into this so called gentleman s agreement, is frankly rat piss .
The Sun said £160million was agreed. Kane's should be on City s back as to why they are reneging rather than come up with stories designed to have us fans turn against our club.

 

[spurs mental]

Could be said about every big game he's played for us, couldn't it?

Maybe he had an agenda.

Maybe he's just a bottler when it really matters.

I wouldn't go so far to say every big game. That's too far.

NLDs he has THE best record in history of it.
He scored a pen at the kop end on the last minute after missing one minutes before.
He scored vital goals in the group stage of the CL and set up up one to send us through to the knockouts, scored in both games v Dortmund.

Fuck sake I just said I wouldn't defend him and here I am defending him.

 

[tommo84]

Whilst the interest in and from City is obvious, he didn't actually state that in the interview

He talked up Kevin De Bruyne a lot. He wasn’t explicit, but he was obvious.

 

[muel]

That article is an embarrassment. Surely no-one has swallowed that pile of crap?

 

[E17yid]

I can’t get angry with him. I just feel disappointed in him like a parent would a naughty child they obviously love.

As long as he says sorry and tidies his room that’ll be enough for me.

 

[Luxspur]

They have already approached another agency for help. They wouldn't get involved because of how things had already been screwed up. and they didn't want their name anywhere near it.

Jeez, how much must HK be regretting having a family member as his agent, surely he has to fire him now?

CK has proper 'dropped the ball' on this one, so bad that no other agent, who would obviously get a cut of any transfer they managed to secure, want to touch it.

Would love and hate to be a fly on the wall in one of their family chat's now, just imagine your own brother has given you advice that has completely ruined your reputation with an entire fan base that treat him as 'one of our own'. Then the transfer (possibly) falls through and you have to sit and take the everything that you know is going to come your way whilst still having to see the person that caused it all everyday even if you fire them.

I know I am being a bit harsh on CK as I am sure HK must have agreed with the actions but it would have been CK that decided it was the right course of action. CK deserves it though as he has shown himself up as being a complete amateur as an agent!

 

[spursfan77]

You have to wonder at what point they are going to realise that antagonising Levy (and he fans) isn’t the way to go about this. But they just don’t seem to. Week after week it’s something else to piss him off.

 

[Dougal]

Just throwing this out there…

In Kane’s own mind, if he’d have have tried a bit harder and not been shit in the league cup final, helping us to win it, it’d mean he’d have to stay…

Now that there are so many questions about his so-called professionalism, it does make you wonder if his heart was really in the final.

The Telegraph story says top 4 or a trophy. Both were within the grasp last season. If Kane believed that either would block his way out and it negatively affected his performance then that’s sabotage. Certainly the timing of the Neville interview before the Villa game was a strategic move. No matter how stupid the strategy was.

 

[pablo73]

Thick as pig shit the pair of them

 

[walworthyid]

I totally get Kane's desire to leave and city's desire to buy him. Well, pay the money!

Don't leave it until the end of the window when we can't replace him.

Its all very simple.

 

[matjcole]

Can anyone post a copy of the article?

 

[SpursMadDave]

At the very minimum it's going to take Kane standing on a chair in the Lodge canteen singing a rendition of "Back For Good" by Take That for me to get over him staying after this nonsense

Surely 'Sorry seems to be the hardest word' would be more apt...

 

[makeveli]

I love that our fans are on his back , chanting on Sunday , love it , we are one finally, the snake needs to rot , and make a humble apology to us all before he can play ..

 

[spids]

It would appear that this is fairly factual now:

• Kane has wanted out since last summer.
• Kane wants to join Manchester City.
• Kane thought he could move this summer if we did not qualify for CL or win a trophy.
• Kane did an interview, before the end of Spurs season (with Gary Neville) indicating he wanted to leave.
• Kane thought his price would be around £100M.

Based on the above, which I do not think anyone would dispute, it is easy to see why some more critically minded Spurs fans could:

1. Listen again to what Hugo Lloris said after we crashed out of the Europa League and wonder who he was speaking of:

“The way we play is just not enough,” the goalkeeper said. “One thing is to come in front of the camera and say: ‘I’m ambitious.’ The other thing is to show every day in training sessions and to show every time on the pitch .... We had a great moment in the past because we could trust the togetherness that was in the team. Today, I’m not sure about that.”

2. Question Harry's levels of commitment in the games that could have seen us qualify for the CL or win a trophy last season.

 

[Trent Crimm]

That’s saying something, given the type of money people can make from this

In fairness when he rang them, the CIA had to explain to Charlie what sort of Agency they were. ? And no he couldn’t “borrow some” for a while (intelligence. Obviously)

 

[Guernman]

He won’t lose the England captaincy but he has already lost something more valuable, the only popularity he has and will ever have.

I was always surprised by just how unpopular Kane is with other England fans. For whatever reason he has never captured the heart of the nation like other England greats before him.

I guess he just doesn’t have the charisma or personality, or perhaps it’s just his lack of a half decent PR strategy, but whatever it is, Kane has never been granted the popularity his on the field achievements deserve.

Even with Spurs fans, who of course have adored him and defended him, we have done so because he is one of our own and because of his goals, but even then I would argue that it wasn’t the love we had for Bale, for Greaves, even for a character and artist like Ginola…

And now Harry has carelessly tossed aside the only popularity he will ever have with the only fan base who will ever care. If he doesn’t go it will be for nothing, if he does it will be to win a few hollow trophies with a club whose atrocity-laden wealth will forever taint their achievements.

I suspect that Harry doesn’t appreciate how precariously fragile his popularity was with us and how indifferent the feelings of neutrals and other England fans really are. City’s spoilt minions will not care. While he delivers he will be merely meeting the minimum expectations for a player who cost too much, and when he stops delivering they will turn on him.

Because he will cost too much for them which I suspect is behind the reluctance. Not the price itself which will be perfectly fair, assuming he doesn’t go for under 150 million. It’s what the price would represent, the fact that it will shatter their petulant insistence that they have never bought success because they have never paid big money for a single player. Kane will cost City their last hypocritical defence of their abhorrent regime and in the end they will despise him for it.

Adoration is supposed to accompany success, and when it doesn’t it hurts. Just ask Djokovic. So I really do wonder just how much Kane will live to regret the decisions of the last months.

 

[rebrab]

Definite mistake going to the media (again). He needs to start making good decisions or there really will be no way back.

Any loyalty bonus (typically 5%) should immediately disappear if you go to the press behind the clubs back, or refuse to train/play IMO. If Harry really wants to go to City that much, he should be willing to reduce that transfer fee by 10m or so by foregoing it anyway...