Harry Kane

[Dazzazzad]

I think this is one of the shittest parts of all this.

When we sold Bale, £85m could buy several players of quality. Whether they work out or not is beside the point.

The money we’re getting for Kane can get us 2 quality players, but we still need to shop around.

There are always good deals to be had. Brighton prove this every year. Muani was free a year ago. VDV cost 3 mill a little over a year ago. Etc etc.

 

[PaulThurston]

I don't think we should be throwing blame around until we have some actual information on what's happening. For all we know Bayern are trying to change the deal.

I suspect it's just a last minute detail which would have to be sorted before everything gets signed.

 

[aussie spur]

He's gone and it's time to move on, but it has to be said fuck Levy and fuck this current Spurs board. I have Zero faith they'll spend this money well, if at all. On top of that we are only looking at mid range players and opportunistic signings being offered by clubs and agents to come in. but even then we need outs first.

I've said it over and over again but it doesn't matter who the manager is as long as the current board and Chairman are in situ.
The club motto under Levy is and always has been
"Balance over team sheet."

Enic out!

Exactly right.

 

[JR1994]

Delay the deal so he misses the 1500 cut off time. To sign on for the super cup tomorrow so he doesn’t win a trophy

 

[djhotspur]

Levy is responsible for what happens at Tottenham and making sure we are prepared for the season, not Bayern and not Kane. If he'd have put in a deadline of 3 weeks ago Bayern would still have found the money, the deal still would have been done and we'd have had time to get things in order.

Exactly this. Combined with an actual cohesive plan to replace him and making sure those deals were lined up so the players had some semblance of a pre season under ange.
Just so so frustrating as per usual

 

[Ron Burgundy]

Pray for Ange today. Going to be a shitshow from the meeja. There's a guy probably already sick of the name Harry Kane. This time next year he could well be sick of the name Daniel Levy.

I feel sorry for Ange, no doubt. But I am also confident that he's a no bullshit sort of guy that will deal with it well. He handles the media well

 

[Pochemon94]

Ange should just bail on this press conference. I will guess that we will have the pr person with him to intervene on literally every question that is not about the match

 

[dimiSpur]

Also, Kane is our greatest ever goalscorer and perhaps overall player. A huge miss. But I'm tired of having managers who are above us and I'm tired of Kane yearning for greater things than Spurs.

We already have a huge inferiority complex as it is.

Anyone who doesn't want to be here can go and that's the bottom line. Even if it means being mid table or worse. I'm proud to support Tottenham and I've forgotten what it's like to have players and managers that feel the same excitement (pre Ange ofc).

So if Kane really does want to leave, go. I'm upset, but he has to go if he doesn't want us. No one is bigger than the Club. It's a cliché but true.

 

[floydiohead]

Levy is responsible for what happens at Tottenham and making sure we are prepared for the season, not Bayern and not Kane. If he'd have put in a deadline of 3 weeks ago Bayern would still have found the money, the deal still would have been done and we'd have had time to get things in order.

Absolutely. It's hard to imagine a scenario where Levy could have undermined his latest manager more than he has managed to do with this one, in all the circumstances. Even for Levy he's managed something special with this one.

 

[Northernspurs]

 

[Timberwolf]

Is Levy doing the equivalent of setting fire to his ex's belongings?

 

[keenu]

Daniel Levy just realised Bayern has a Super Cup game this weekend and Kane could win his first trophy after one game so wants to make sure he doesn't play in that!

 

[MindOverMatter]

At least this saga is finally over and we can focus on what we do have!

 

[Luka Van der Bale]

The thing is, we do spend the money (kind of), but we rarely spend it well - and we go for opportunistic £30m-£40m punts rather than clubbing that money for more expensive, established names.

Would you trade a Porro (45) and Spence (20) for a Havertz or Szobolszai type signing at 65? Of course.

I'd rather have Maddison than either.

 

[sidford]

You've lost Levy you little willow looking prick, give it up. You can't save face on this one you're just making club & yourself look even more shambolic

 

[George94]

Delay the deal so he misses the 1500 cut off time. To sign on for the super cup tomorrow so he doesn’t win a trophy

Surely Levy isn't that petty, right?

 

[dirtyh]

Lucky h, he can walk away from this shit. The rest of us are stuck here haha.

 

[Maxtremist]

We can all talk about 'deadlines should have been set' but we all know that is just never how football works. It's not how a lot of business' work. Ultimately when someone makes 'an offer you can't refuse' it's just that, one you can't refuse.

There's a lot to this. This is years of a poorly run club. Years of not matching Kane's ambition. This is basic and poor tactics from Bayern. All of that. But it's also just a player who no longer wants to be here, has seemingly indicated as so many times. So rather than letting him leave for a free next year we've got over 100m for him.

I would fully make a case for Kane staying could get us into Europe next year and that'd be worth a lot of money and get us swimming in a bigger pool of targets. And to dare is to do, ambitious and all of that... but even our own fanbase keep saying we'd struggle to get Europe next season even with Kane. Even with some of the potential signings we could make... so an unlikely push for Europe or a guaranteed 100m and the chance to start building on a long term plan.

As for the potential 'Kane replacements' or just our other targets... I keep seeing that we should be 'ambitious' but I have no idea what the hell that even means sometimes. Cause for some it seems to mean 'spend 60+ mil on a player'. Almost regardless of who the player is. Some it seems to be 'Buy Europe's best X' and why/how on Earth are we going to do that? We've seemingly had an overhaul in who we target for transfers with it being more data driven, and that is leading to a lot of potentially good targets.

As is the cliche but so true, no transfer is a guarantee. I like who our options are in terms of links. I get the risk in players like Fati etc... as targets but is that not ambitious? Cause if that risk works then that is a brilliant one. And if it doesn't well that's the whole thing WITH A RISK. WITH AMBITION. Just because there's potential doesn't mean it'll be achieved and there's a lot of factors that go into that.

Losing our best player is awful. We all can agree on that. Even for many who wanted to get rid of him for the money/rebuild etc... it's still awful that we're in this position. But it's not the end of the world, nor is it the end of Tottenham.

 

[KingNick]

Daniel Levy just realised Bayern has a Super Cup game this weekend and Kane could win his first trophy after one game so wants to make sure he doesn't play in that!

If you want that outcome you just ask for it. It’s not a big deal for BM to have HK for tomorrow’s game.

 

[muffwah]

If this is real it shows quite how far away Levy is from understanding or caring about the fan base opinion. Worrying.

You have no idea what is happening so it is quite a confirmation bias there.