Harry Kane

Blockbuster said:

It’s embarrassing how some fans have reacted to this whole saga when the club and Kane have officially said nothing

so quick to lay judgements based on what “ITK’s” have seemingly heard. Utterly shameful.
Harry is one of our own

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No, what's "utterly shameful" is that he should have been at training on Monday, yet decided to go on holiday for an extra week, in a covid hotspot.
Not to mention the pathetic statement he waited 5 days to release.

I don't get why you can't understand why this might anger some of us (or seemingly most of us).

McFlash said:

No, what's "utterly shameful" is that he should have been at training on Monday, yet decided to go on holiday for an extra week, in a covid hotspot.
Not to mention the pathetic statement he waited 5 days to release.

I don't get why you can't understand why this might anger some of us (or seemingly most of us).

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He’s badly advised, has been a bit of a plum… That said if anyone could potentially eat humble pie, it’s Kane. I suspect he’s someone who wants to be loved, this little play was a gamble that failed. City signed Grealish and probably can’t afford Kane as well. Now Kane needs to start backpedaling rapidly and grovelling. He’s got the prospect of full stadiums next season, where all England fans will be giving him hell!

Blockbuster said:

It’s embarrassing how some fans have reacted to this whole saga when the club and Kane have officially said nothing

so quick to lay judgements based on what “ITK’s” have seemingly heard. Utterly shameful.
Harry is one of our own

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Have you been locked in the shed the last couple of months?!

If nothing else is taken into consideration, Nuno’s post-match comments said everything!

There’s so much smoke everyone’s wearing respirators!

Harry has fucked up with how he has handled this, from the Neville interview to this week's disappearing act.
But without condoning the way he has behaved, I can't help but wonder what Levy promised him, and how much Levy has gone back on his word.

The rest of the squad will be privy to the facts , and if Levy has gone back on his word, the rest of the squad will be cautious of trusting Levy in the future.

Harry though has behaved poorly, if I was him I would have gone full public what Levy promised him and gone back on his word, and he would have even had my sympathy, perhaps....but now he has lost my respect.

Levy ,if he has stitched Harry up, hasn't exactly acted great either, trust is so important, especially with a player you have had since a kid.

Also to all the people saying we are blowing out of proportion and should forgive him as he’s done nothing wrong, it’s just the media making shit up.....spare a thought for our new manger who had to bat away these questions and even aluded to there being a problem and he hadn’t spoken to him.
Great professionalism there right?!

I find it difficult to see how people are so black and white on the situation. I think he's obviously made a huge error in judgement and made mistakes over these last couple of months, I was actually more annoyed about the interview during an important part of our season over this training debacle but regardless, he made mistakes. However I'm not perfect, I've made many mistakes so I can't just suddenly hate Kane or dismiss what he has done for our club. I think the dynamic will certainly have to change but I just can't see how making mistakes suddenly erases everything of the past 10 years of service, particularly when he has stuck by us when 99.9% of people of his ability would have fucked off over half a decade ago.

We can talk about loyalty all we want but I'd be willing to put an estimated 100% of spurs fans have at times failed to show loyalty in certain moments against individuals who put on our shirt. For me, yes the idea of him being a spurs fan is gone now, the roy of the rovers notion of it all but I said that before this training situation came about because as a spurs fan if I was in his shoes, I'd sacrifice everything to try and win something with spurs and if I ended up with nothing, I'd know that at least I dedicated everything to the pursuit of doing it for my club. I think it's fair to say that at times we have willingly turned our backs on Spurs players who are diehard spurs fans so again, I'm not going to get on my high horse about Kane's loyalty.

What I do care about is professionalism, as I say he dropped the ball and that is his responsibility, not his brother or his dad or man city, that's on him but I'm not going to completely ignore 10 years of professionalism even if he now needs to take action to where the trust in terms of his professionalism can begin to regenerate.

I think we should all acknowledge our own frustrations with the club in recent months, the things we have said about the club, remember that most of us accepted why Kane wanted to leave because the direction of the club has been on a downward trajectory and even though we're finally turning it around, it's understandable if it's too late for players who have dedicated many years of their careers to us. I'm sure your dedication to a project wavers when you see world class players like Dembele, Vertonghen, Alderweireld leaving at a time where they're no longer at the level they once were and they're moving down the football pyramid after spending years committed to the spurs cause and having little to show for it. I can understand why you don't want to see how another project pans out when you watch your teammates go through that process and fear that being how your career goes. I mean he even said in interviews before his current contract he will stay at spurs as long as we're heading in the right direction so it's not like he's done a Campbell and said "I'm staying"

Also I think it's worth noting why the club have chosen to stay silent. Literally a few weeks ago a large portion of the forum were angry that the club had allowed itself to get to the point to where our favourite son felt he had to leave. Kane has done Spurs a huge favour and completely changed the narrative and has taken the club for the most part out of the firing line and the optics have shifted significantly, so I think it's understandable that they chose to stay silent because from a PR standpoint that benefits them. It benefits them that they're now not public enemy number 1 and it benefits them should city actually put a bid in and they feel like they need to sell. Before Kane did this stunt, no matter the price people would have been baying for Levy's blood. I'm not saying this to get people to aim there sights backs at the club, I'm very happy that the people in power are trying to fix their own mistakes and turn our fortunes around, I'm just saying acknowledge the optic shift and why the club chose to stay silent. It benefits them and acknowledge how many mistakes the club has made and we always forgive them so perhaps we could find a way to extend that to one of our players who has been the foundation of which the recent era of spurs was built.

I'm still of the belief that the time has come to part ways, I think the club could do with a fresh start and I think this could be the best way to do it but if Kane ends up staying, I guess I'm writing this in the hope that maybe people think twice before going down the route of hating him with 0 room for redemption and allow him to learn from his mistakes and restore at least some of his reputation.

EastLondonYid said:

Harry has fucked up with how he has handled this, from the Neville interview to this week's disappearing act.
But without condoning the way he has behaved, I can't help but wonder what Levy promised him, and how much Levy has gone back on his word.

The rest of the squad will be privy to the facts , and if Levy has gone back on his word, the rest of the squad will be cautious of trusting Levy in the future.

Harry though has behaved poorly, if I was him I would have gone full public what Levy promised him and gone back on his word, and he would have even had my sympathy, perhaps....but now he has lost my respect.

Levy ,if he has stitched Harry up, hasn't exactly acted great either, trust is so important, especially with a player you have had since a kid.

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I don't really understand why some are looking to blame Levy based on hypotheticals and assumptions.

BosSpurs08 said:

Agreed with all - except I’d say Harry ultimately is the one who ruined his own legacy. He’s unfortunate that his brother is an incompetent buffoon, but Harry’s gotta own this.

In a world where he does return to the fold, I will enjoy him smashing in goals but it’s entirely transactional going forward. Give PEH the vice captaincy, his song to Skipp, and let’s all have a laugh when his brother gets kicked to the curb as token penance.

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Buffoon or not, Harry is the England captain and Tottenham vice captain, all eyes are in him for being the example....no matter how much Charlie done, Harry should have been big enough to say no.

dontcallme said:

I don't really understand why some are looking to blame Levy based on hypotheticals and assumptions.

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Come on, ffs , is it so hard to believe Levy may have gone back on his word, for Harry to act like such a dick, something has gone on.

EastLondonYid said:

Come on, ffs , is it so hard to believe Levy may have gone back on his word, for Harry to act like such a dick, something has gone on.

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Not difficult to believe but I see no reason to just assume this happened when there's nothing to suggest it has.

Edit: FFS, for some reason.

To be fair to ?, I totally understand his statement...

I also dont like to go into the specifics when I'm in the wrong.

dontcallme said:

Not difficult to believe but I see no reason to just assume this happened when there's nothing to suggest it has.

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I get you, except there's been alot of noise coming out that Levy went back on a promise.,... hopefully the truth will come out soon.

Harrier said:

With Paratici as Dragon?

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I was tempted to suggest that


It is incredibly naive to have absolute no experience as an 'agent', besides the absolute 'starter kit' that is Harry, to try and take on the project of transferring one of the world's top forwards, out of the hands of one of football's most resolute negotiators, for basically unrealistically low money.

EastLondonYid said:

I get you, except there's been alot of noise coming out that Levy went back on a promise.,... hopefully the truth will come out soon.

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Famous other promises from history........
- The cheque is in the post
-Of course I love you
- I won't cum in your mouth

I'm all for drawing a line under it. If he goes, it's on our terms. If he stays let's get behind him and hopefully, he'll bang a few goals in.

I'm resigned to him leaving, however I'd be happy with one more season out of him.

Who knows, it isn't insurmountable that we could have a great season and he stays longer ?.

I find it difficult that he and his team actually believed that going on strike for 5 days would allow Levy and co to accept a low bid from a money rich club, like mind blowing actually.

FFS I would have respected the man more if he said I'm not playing this season that's how much I want to leave. To do it for an extra week in Disney world, now that makes me giggle. Levy won't even consider until City puts a 2 in front of that price.

EastLondonYid said:

I get you, except there's been alot of noise coming out that Levy went back on a promise.,... hopefully the truth will come out soon.

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I'm not sure what Levy could really have promised.

I think Kane clearly wants to achieve major honours and after the demise of Poch and the failure of Jose it's very possible he sees the chance to do that with us is unlikely, certainly not guaranteed.

So I can understand how we can blame Levy in regards to how he has run the club. But I see no reason to think Kane is leaving based on a promise by Levy being broken.

sausage said:

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Great film!

That statement sounds like something Trump would have put out after getting caught out with something!

EastLondonYid said:

Come on, ffs , is it so hard to believe Levy may have gone back on his word, for Harry to act like such a dick, something has gone on.

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No, it's harder to believe that Levy would have GIVEN his word on such a thing.
Never would Levy have said that we'd sell him for 100m, which seems to be the price Harry got into his head.