SecretLemonadeDrinker
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I'm not so much bothered if we get someone good who isn't either of those two.
Just so long as we get someone good.
The Daily ITK and Transfer Discussion Thread - 12th August
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I'm not so much bothered if we get someone good who isn't either of those two.
Just so long as we get someone good.
This is realistically what will end up happening!
SpartanSpur
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Valencia has been saying all summer we will spend money because Levy is desperate to get back into CL. The inference here I suspect is that CL qualification may have avoided this Kane scenario.
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TheTanguy
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Why? Paratici might have sold him for, let's say, £125m.. At least imo a very underwhelming fee. Levy will get an astronomical fee or it won't happen and rightly so with 3 years left on his contract.
Of course he is. With that money at stake, no way he is letting anyone else deal with it.
To be fair to Levy, this is where you'd rather have him than not have him. However could be really scuppering Paratici's plans.
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Amo
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Yeah but the £25m or whatever extra from the Kane transfer isn't cost-free. It costs time, instability, dwindling options for incoming replacements, more expensive incoming replacements, more soap-opera media scrutiny, less time to integrate replacements, etc etc.
For me, sitting at home as a passive spectator, I say fuck them and fuck Kane and count pennies to the very end. But if I was making these decisions I'd have to factor into my calculations that just because it would be in City's interest it doesn't mean blocking that is by default in our interest.
Ron Burgundy
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It's an unfair fight really:
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Timberwolf
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I think if £125m was our best offer, we should downright refuse to sell and just keep Kane. He'll still be worth £100m or more next summer anyway so it's just not worth it.
What would annoy me was if City offered, say, £150m now and we then spent 10 days haggling over an extra £10m before selling him last minute for £160m and the delay cost us the likes of Vlahovic, etc.
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freeeki
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£125m with time to reinvest it in a depressed market is worth more than £125m next summer (and make no mistake - if we don’t get £150m for Kane now, then we never will. He’ll be knocking 30 with two years left on his contract, and hopefully not injured)
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I think the vast majority of the fans would be fuming if we get bullied by Man. City of all clubs and sell him for £125m, I certainly would. Especially in a summer in which vastly inferior players like Grealish and Lukaku went for £100m.
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SSN just had a Portuguese corespondent saying palhinha from Lisbon might be one to watch for us.
Not being difficult but is there any evidence of it being a ‘depressed market’? People keep saying it but I’m not seeing any evidence of it being the case. What deals have there been that reflect this?
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We’ll see how it plays out next week, but the market doesn’t seem all that depressed. Things may yet change when clubs realize they actually do need money but… so far reported prices (for our targets anyway) just seem to be going up.
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He’s brilliant isn’t he!
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When I agree with him, yes.
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