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Harry Kane MBE

Surfless said:
The mental thing is it's a human being at the end of the day.

A month from now he could rupture an ACL, and spend 14 months recovering. Then selling him for 100m would look inspired. He could find his wife doesn't settle and hates it out there, which will damage his mindset and position. He could thrive and so might she, and he may score 40 goals in the bundesliga next season.

He's still a bloke though.
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He's going to smash it there, I have no doubt
 
Ffp is making those kinds of failures more and more difficult for even the big boys. There's a reason city didn't rival the goons for Rice beyond a certain level - if it weren't for FFP they would be bidding £200m as money would be no object. Same with the Geordies. But they can't do it as it still impacts their net spend Vs revenue.
 
Raziel said:
He's going to smash it there, I have no doubt
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I'm equal parts hope so and maybe six months in he returns on loan cos he's hated it out there. I don't think he will ever play for another premier League club so when he's done steamrollering Germany he will likely come "home" .
 
Surfless said:
I'm equal parts hope so and maybe six months in he returns on loan cos he's hated it out there. I don't think he will ever play for another premier League club so when he's done steamrollering Germany he will likely come "home" .
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I think our best hope (daydream) is he smashes it in Germany, wins everything, maybe even CL in next 2 years, then comes home at that point (2 years)
 
DubaiSpur said:
I'd say it's one and the same mate. No one gets 100% of transfers right, but City and Saudi Sportswashing Machine have the capacity to just write off anyone that doesn't work. They also have a willingness to do so. That's just part of transfer spending.

We don't have the capacity or the willingness, and the media knows it. So we are no threat, because we cannot ever get 100% of our buys right and we need that to even stand half a chance given we are operating at a massive financial disadvantage on account of our lovely owners being who they are.
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Your so far wrong with your first
It’s not willingness
They can because then are not normal
There is a reason so many big teams are anti clubs being owned by countries… it just doesn’t make the game fair and even relevant anymore
When a club can spend £50m on a player and then bin him.. and their next competitor would see that as double their record fee… the game is fudged
And they can just waste more and more until it works
It’s not being smarter. It’s actually being more wasteful
You are right though, we can’t do that as we’re normal
 
Bedfordspurs said:
Your so far wrong with your first
It’s not willingness
They can because then are not normal
There is a reason so many big teams are anti clubs being owned by countries… it just doesn’t make the game fair and even relevant anymore
When a club can spend £50m on a player and then bin him.. and their next competitor would see that as double their record fee… the game is fudged
And they can just waste more and more until it works
It’s not being smarter. It’s actually being more wasteful
You are right though, we can’t do that as we’re normal
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That's what I said - they have the capacity to do it, we don't.

But we don't *need* the capacity to do it either - right now, to ever have a hope of winning everything, we need to get transfers 100% right every time for years. Impossible.

But maybe we get an al-Sawiris like at Villa who invests 500m into the club, or Kroenke at Arsenal with his 600m - then we maybe only need 80% of the buys to work out to have a chance, and can eat the loss on the rest.

Maybe with an FSG which invests a couple of hundred million and tanks the losses on the occasional bad purchase, maybe we only need 90% to be good.

Or Boehly comes in with his billions, maybe we only need 50% to be good.

There are gradients to allowing us to compete, but in each case, the boost from having an ambitious but relatively normal/non-state owner propels us to competing.

The only thing that's clear now is our present model gives us absolutely 0% chance, and the media know that - so betting on us to never win anything is a sure thing, because for the 22 grinding years under Levy and Lewis, it's almost entirely been the case.
 
Have you given Daniel Levy a shopping list?

I don't think it works that way. It is not my wife handing me a shopping list to go and get milk and bread for the kids. Our whole strategy has been around the fact Harry wasn't going to be around more than likely so it is not like we've had a pow wow this morning and jeez what do we do. We knew it was coming and we've been working towards that. From my perspective we're preparing for Brentford and there won't be anyone incomings between now and Sunday so that's where my focus is.
 
markysimmo said:
Have you given Daniel Levy a shopping list?

I don't think it works that way. It is not my wife handing me a shopping list to go and get milk and bread for the kids. Our whole strategy has been around the fact Harry wasn't going to be around more than likely so it is not like we've had a pow wow this morning and jeez what do we do. We knew it was coming and we've been working towards that. From my perspective we're preparing for Brentford and there won't be anyone incomings between now and Sunday so that's where my focus is.
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Its more like giving Levy a shopping list and he comes back with out of date eggs and milk because he left it so late they were all they had left, but as they were cheaper and the shop was desperate to get ridhe chalks it up as a W, paid for on the credit card of course.
 
markysimmo said:
Have you given Daniel Levy a shopping list?

I don't think it works that way. It is not my wife handing me a shopping list to go and get milk and bread for the kids. Our whole strategy has been around the fact Harry wasn't going to be around more than likely so it is not like we've had a pow wow this morning and jeez what do we do. We knew it was coming and we've been working towards that. From my perspective we're preparing for Brentford and there won't be anyone incomings between now and Sunday so that's where my focus is.
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Think the money has already been spent. Will need to sell a few to get Lenglet on last day of the window. To Dare and all that. I’m annoyed we’ve spaffed 40+M on Porro what a waste.
 
DubaiSpur said:
The above *is* true. It's how the media works now, and has done since the advent of the Sky Premier League demolished all football history up to that point. You can recognize it or not, doesn't make it any less true.

Spurs are a safe bet to mock, because we are never going to prove anyone wrong under ENIC. It's easy clickbait for the media given our rivals (Arse, Chelsea) have massive fanbases that jump on that stuff.

Nobody's making fun of Saudi Sportswashing Machine because they are going to win the lot very soon - they are a genuine threat to the established order, unlike us. And journos don't like looking foolish.
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Might be something to do with the fact that they don't like being chopped up with bone saws too.
 
djp82 said:
Think the money has already been spent. Will need to sell a few to get Lenglet on last day of the window. To Dare and all that. I’m annoyed we’ve spaffed 40+M on Porro what a waste.
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Kind of agree with the last point. It’s a hefty sum to pay for a player that doesn’t suit a back 4 and isn’t first choice.

I wonder who signed off on that. Maybe it was the director of footb….ah no - ignore that.
 
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