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Shadydan

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I wonder when the last non CL Ballon D'or winner was? If there's ever been one that is.

That award is far too much of a popularity contest for someone like Kane to win it playing in the Europa League.

Messi won the last one and Barca didn't win the CL although they did get to the semi.

It was a strange season that season as VVD came 2nd and defenders don't normally win the award so I don't think that Messi had that much competition.

This season should have been Lewa but they cancelled it due to Covid, I think though that it will be a Bayern player next year unless Kane does something extraordinary and lead England to glory in the Euros.
 

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I said on the Match thread - if Kane keep this up he'll win the Ballon D'or.

But he probably also needs to win the League and/or Europa as well because he can't shine on the Champion's League stage.

Hope he can bring the rest of the team along with him because he's in special special form.

That's an 'if' of galactic proportions though... He'll have 38 goals and 53 assists in the PL alone...
 

dagraham

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Keeps this up and he's definitely breaking Henry's 24 goals and 20 assists record in 02/03


I was actually wondering whether any player has topped both the goal scoring and assist chart in the same season. I was expecting the answer to be no, but looking at that Henry probably did just that in 02/03.
 

Phomesy

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I wonder when the last non CL Ballon D'or winner was? If there's ever been one that is.

That award is far too much of a popularity contest for someone like Kane to win it playing in the Europa League.

Yes I think we'd have to win the league and/or Europa for him to have a chance but with the numbers he's putting up IF we did win those then he'd be impossible to ignore.

Big "ifs" though to be sure.
 

Phomesy

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That's an 'if' of galactic proportions though... He'll have 38 goals and 53 assists in the PL alone...

Lol -yeah that's not going to happen. I meant more his current form and general all round play. He's gone to another level so far.
 

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Mark Goldbridge is a troll, no idea why people still consume his nonsense especially when he admitted it himself.

He certainly is but he is good at it, hes here to make money and he does. As a complete striker Kane shits over the lot and any football fan will agree, against all the shit Harry has had to take since day one.
 

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I can’t see Kane ever leaving tbh. Not because he’d necessarily want to stay but because I can’t see clubs ever paying what we want for him.

Given the fact he will be 28 next summer and has a long history of long-term injuries, I just do not see a club coming in with a bid of £150m. Not in this climate. Next summer I’d imagine the likes of Kylian Mbappe, Lautaro Martinez, potentially Victor Osimhen and EB Haaland will all move clubs and their age and potential resale will be way more appealing than Harry Kane.

The only way I see him going is if he either runs his contract down and refuses to renew, or leaves on a free transfer. Two things I couldn’t see him doing to his boyhood club.

Slightly off-topic, and this also isn't specifically aimed at you but I always find this weird in football . He's been a Spurs legend, and our best player for however many years and never won a trophy. If in his very short career he wants to leave and join a club to get a taste of silverware he's stuck between a rock and a hard place.

Levy will basically never accept any offer for him, and if he ever then chose to run his contract down fans would hate him and call him a traitor so he is basically forced to see his career out here.

Kane is likely going to leave the club one day and I've made my peace if and when that day comes but I feel that when it comes, sadly it will be very messy.

I can't ever remember a time a top player or guaranteed started has left our club and people didn't end up slagging them off. I don't care myself but I know some do. Saying that if he ran his contract down and end up at another London club or Liverpool I'd be pissed. Anywhere else I don't care
 

thebenjamin

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Slightly off-topic, and this also isn't specifically aimed at you but I always find this weird in football . He's been a Spurs legend, and our best player for however many years and never won a trophy. If in his very short career he wants to leave and join a club to get a taste of silverware he's stuck between a rock and a hard place.

Levy will basically never accept any offer for him, and if he ever then chose to run his contract down fans would hate him and call him a traitor so he is basically forced to see his career out here.

Kane is likely going to leave the club one day and I've made my peace if and when that day comes but I feel that when it comes, sadly it will be very messy.

I can't ever remember a time a top player or guaranteed started has left our club and people didn't end up slagging them off. I don't care myself but I know some do. Saying that if he ran his contract down and end up at another London club or Liverpool I'd be pissed. Anywhere else I don't care

The thing is we won't let him go voluntarily, so he'll have to engineer a way out. Like Bale did.
 

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The thing is we won't let him go voluntarily, so he'll have to engineer a way out. Like Bale did.

That's what I'm saying. I know he's living the dream as is, but he will have his ambitions. Just sad that fulfilling them may mean leaving us, and as I said, while I won't care, I know it will all end very sour and fans will end up hating him. I can foresee it and it won't change anything
 

dagraham

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That's what I'm saying. I know he's living the dream as is, but he will have his ambitions. Just sad that fulfilling them may mean leaving us, and as I said, while I won't care, I know it will all end very sour and fans will end up hating him. I can foresee it and it won't change anything

I’m not too sure about that. Of course, you will always get a section of fans that will, but I did not hate Bale when he left and a lot of fans didn’t either and recognised he was simply too good for us.
 

Thenewcat

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I’m not too sure about that. Of course, you will always get a section of fans that will, but I did not hate Bale when he left and a lot of fans didn’t either and recognised he was simply too good for us.
Agreed. There will always be a few but I never held a grudge against Bale or Luka, or CE more recently. Not many begrudged Teddy going to United and winning a treble either. The only thing you don’t do is play the ‘I’m a fan’ card then sneak out a la Campbell. It wasn’t that Sol left, or even had he went to Arsenal as rationally that was a good career move at the time. it was giving it all the ‘Spurs man through and through’ bullshit that stuck in my craw. Special mention for Robbie Keane and everywhere he ever went being his boyhood dream, that annoyed me too!
 

dagraham

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Agreed. There will always be a few but I never held a grudge against Bale or Luka, or CE more recently. Not many begrudged Teddy going to United and winning a treble either. The only thing you don’t do is play the ‘I’m a fan’ card then sneak out a la Campbell. It wasn’t that Sol left, or even had he went to Arsenal as rationally that was a good career move at the time. it was giving it all the ‘Spurs man through and through’ bullshit that stuck in my craw. Special mention for Robbie Keane and everywhere he ever went being his boyhood dream, that annoyed me too!

I didn’t begrudge him leaving, but the Chelsea thing and the quotes in the media were unnecessary and at best misjudged and did leave a sour taste. Although that was partly because there was an uncomfortable truth in there that Spurs fans ( including me ) didn’t want to acknowledge.

However, even if he was pissed we didn’t entertain selling him that summer, once the transfer window ended he played a blinder that season and no one can say he wasn’t giving his all on the pitch.
 

thebenjamin

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That's what I'm saying. I know he's living the dream as is, but he will have his ambitions. Just sad that fulfilling them may mean leaving us, and as I said, while I won't care, I know it will all end very sour and fans will end up hating him. I can foresee it and it won't change anything

The tricky thing will be that Levy will ask for an astronomical sum that no one will pay and then H will have to run his contract down in order to reduce his own price. So he ends up having to stay against his will... It could all get messy.

Top 4 and a trophy this season is realistically the minimum to avoid that scenario beginning next summer.
 

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Slightly off-topic, and this also isn't specifically aimed at you but I always find this weird in football . He's been a Spurs legend, and our best player for however many years and never won a trophy. If in his very short career he wants to leave and join a club to get a taste of silverware he's stuck between a rock and a hard place.

Levy will basically never accept any offer for him, and if he ever then chose to run his contract down fans would hate him and call him a traitor so he is basically forced to see his career out here.

Kane is likely going to leave the club one day and I've made my peace if and when that day comes but I feel that when it comes, sadly it will be very messy.

I can't ever remember a time a top player or guaranteed started has left our club and people didn't end up slagging them off. I don't care myself but I know some do. Saying that if he ran his contract down and end up at another London club or Liverpool I'd be pissed. Anywhere else I don't care
If Kane runs his contract down and leaves at 31, having been with us 15 years, 10 as first choice striker, undoubtedly having scored over 200 league goals and probably 300 overall, making him our top all time scorer, then I actually think there’s no real fan who would begrudge him going anywhere apart from Arsenal, and a good few that would even accept him going there though I’d suggest they’re not ever going to be a big enough pull for him as he’d be leaving to on one of the great clubs.
 
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