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SuperPav10 said:
Can anyone recall a time when a club has effectively 'won' one of these star-player-wants-to-leave stand-offs? I can only recall Rooney's U-turn at United at the moment.
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Here's some other very notable examples, in addition to those given by @mil1lion

Cristiano Ronaldo tried to leave Real Madrid (more than once reportedly) years before he finally moved to Juventus.

Yaya Toure tried to force a move from Man City in 2014, following the best season of his career (20 PL goals), but stayed for another 4 years.

Suarez agreed to join Arsenal (prompting Wenger's ridiculous bid of £1 above a buy-out clause that didn't exist), but stayed. He did join Barcelona a year later, but that was an entirely separate negotiation with a different buying club and much more money involved. The fact that they managed to keep him for another year and then sell him for over 60% more than he'd tried to force a move for does set a positive precedent (contradicts what a lot of people think about Kane's value crashing next summer).

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Odemwingie not only skipped training but turned up at his desired club's stadium...but ultimately stayed put.
West Brom also forced Berahino to stay when we were in pursuit of him.
They might not fit your idea of a "star player", but they were star players for West Brom.
 
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spurslenny said:
Metaphorically speaking, Levy has been teetering on the edge of the plank over a pit of crocodiles for a while now, and I think he knows it. So to think he will go completely against type and cave to City and the wishes of Kane are ridiculous.

Its the asking price or no dice.

Anyone who thinks otherwise is on drugs. (Which is probably what the Kanes are on if they think amateur hour tactics like this will work ((if true)
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Charlie Kane’s probably getting high off a small box of Frosties.
 
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If it's true and Harry was never supposed to start training this morning anyway, there'll be a load of Sky's football pundits and reporters running around right now trying desperately to come up with a plan which helps them save face, after demonstrating to everyone how little they actually know about what's going on.

Oh God PLEASE be true...
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What actually will happen is that they will simply move on and pretend it never happened.
 
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Fuck me, if it's true that Kane wasn't due to start training till tomorrow anyway, Sky Sports News has a MASSIVE apology to make to everyone for scaring the living crud out of us all fucking day long for absolutely no reason apart from them being utter dickheads who don't know WTF they're doing. I wonder how they'll try to keep their credibility if it's true! Tossers.
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They won’t
 
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Aphex said:


Kane will end up having to grovel back to the fans and club, it's mental that he's made this move when City aren't even meeting our asking price.

Normally players do this when the club have made an offer which is acceptable, and they were told was the asking price, but then the selling club renege and reject still. That is when players normally strike. Not now...when City aren't even willing to meet our price.

Kane's are thick.
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More and more reports coming out that Man City are rowing back from bidding higher right now. Maybe that has prompted Kane's actions?
 
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Spurs fans: 200 million or City f*** off

Kane predictably doesn’t show up for training to try and force a move. Oldest transfer move in the book.

Spurs fans: 100 million and Laporte and sell him!
 
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Johno1470 said:
Knew in my head it would happen before he signed with us last season, but I can almost guarantee you lot that Kane sat down with Bale at some stage last season and had an honest conversation about this. Gareth most likely told him he needs to be selfish and do what he needs to do to become 'elite' and win trophies.
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Golf trophies...
 
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degoose said:
Does anybody actually know anything or is this all he didn't turn up. Maybe he is sick, stubbed a toe, got

The thing is nobody knows about a gentelmans agreement, that is rumour, nobody knows what Kane has said, that is rumour and nobody knows why he is not there today. Basically we have a lot of nothing here but that is perfect for media clickbaiting everybody.
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There are now almost as many reports that he isn't supposed to be at training today, so I don't think we even need to speculate about why he isn't there.
 
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There's been a fair bit of wishful thinking on here regarding Harry and how he'll behave. He's something of a single-minded goal machine, universally praised for his intensity of practice and training. And he's of a mind to leave. I'm long past the naivety that he should think like a fan. Or that there's some sort of character flaw if he pushes for an exit. Clubs try to move players under contract on all the time.

Having said that, we can choose to keep him if we wish and if we show similar resolve. I doubt we will, but we could choose to. Just as we could have chosen to for countless other stars over the last 15+ years. I can see why we don't- there's more than a hint of cutting off your nose to spite your face - but he has no option on Sept 1st if we simply don't sell him.
 
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Well. I'm just going to wait and see if he just needed a negative Covid test to return, and if he shows tomorrow.

If not, then we can call him a ****.
 
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I wonder why City just wouldn't go and buy Griezmann who is IMO suits them better than Kane. Also considering Barcelona's financial issues
 
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I'd also say if Villa get 100M for Grealish, then we are looking at plenty more than that for Harry. Realish is very good, but there's no comparison there in terms of metrics and end product.
 
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Nebby said:
Because you never, ever comment on what the press reports.
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Exactly this. It’s like paying the ransom to terrorists.

The press will then pump out any bullshit story they like, week after week for clicks and hits and ad revenue - because they know a club will ‘comment’ - generating a further story and website article and Twitter post and Snapchat post and tiktok post all linked to advertising.
 
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