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Harry Kane MBE

I've been dipping into the Blue Moon forum on and off - very entertaining btw, a mixture of panic at not having a striker and absolute entitlement re the audacity of Levy not to fold at the mere name of City - but someone who appears to be taken as ITK said City are sending a delegation to London tomorrow, and then clarified that it's to meet with Kane's camp rather than the club. It will be interesting to see what rumours are flying around after tomorrow.
I didn't really expect that Kane would play a part on Thursday, but if he's not sold by the weekend, then he's got to be in the squad for Sunday?
I'm not shooting the messenger here but Emirates Marketing Project's head office is already in London. Their delegation meeting Kane's 'camp' would also be an illegal approach seeing there is no way that we would've given City the permission to speak to the player and Emirates Marketing Project could not argue that they are talking to the agent about different players when Harry's agent only has one player on his books. That is therefore the usual made up ITK nonsense.
 
I didnt say necessarily start on Sunday, but I dont take an argument that he wouldnt be match fit enough to be on the bench. In terms of training with the squad an manager's tactics, he knows everyone who will realistically be in the starting 11 and the tactics won't be rocket science

We've seen this all before. Berbatov, modric, bale... Not sure why we'd expect a different outcome.

Maybe i'm wrong, but i think an agreement is close. If not already done. Let's just get replacements in.
 
We've seen this all before. Berbatov, modric, bale... Not sure why we'd expect a different outcome.

Maybe i'm wrong, but i think an agreement is close. If not already done. Let's just get replacements in.
The difference this time is the buying club would have to break the British record twice in a year to an equivalent value to Over half their turnover and mid global pandemic impact
 
Which he was doing last week. Yesterday he trained with the squad. Now he's suddenly not fit enough to train with them?
Yesterday was the first day with the squad
He would get maybe 2 days with them out there max
He is better of here being made to work harder to catch them up fitness wise
Personally id have sent him and made him play
 
Isn't that what chelsea did last summer? Spent £250m on players.

After selling players to fund it in previous windows when they had a ban and couldn’t buy
They had a net spend of about £50m ish IIRC
City would be spending £260m on 2 players with an income so far of about £20m
 
After selling players to fund it in previous windows when they had a ban and couldn’t buy
They had a net spend of about £50m ish IIRC
City would be spending £260m on 2 players with an income so far of about £20m

So they're not interested in buying kane? They haven't bid?
 
As jordan said, there is no way levy would have set a transfer fee.

Either way, even if he did - you don't rely on "gentleman's agreement" when it comes to 100 million pound + deals. How fudging thick is he?

He could've just shut his mouth, got on with his job, and City would still have to pay up to get him. fudging amateur.
 
I guess we'll see.
Yep we will
Just checked
City have sold £60m so far
Still amazed the money they get in COVID times for youth players
They think their getting £20m for a kind who has been on loan in Spain and also decent money for Patrick Robert’s after his loans :confused::confused:
 
I really hate that narrative, it's fudging lazy and untrue

- Liverpool have been above us and earned 2X-3X our revenue per year for the better part of 3 decades
- We broke into top 6, then top 4 partially at their expense (because they were badly managed) and managed to finish above them for something like 5 out of 6 years.
- They managed to offload a set of debt on a departing owner, sell a few players and got the re-investment right with players & manager
- they simply recovered their level, which their income (not just players sales) has given them for an established period of time
- We were overachieving and trying to establish ourselves, our place at that table long term will not be based on selling Kane (or any other player) but on how much the stadium has closed that income gap to others (it has to everyone bar United & Pool)
At the point that ENIC took over Spurs we had just had a higher revenue than them for the previous season.
 
At the point that ENIC took over Spurs we had just had a higher revenue than them for the previous season.

Enic took over in 2001. Liverpool got to the quater finals of the cl that year, having won the uefa cup, league cup and fa cup the year before. No way did we have a higher turnover that year.

Edit just checked our turnover up to june 2001 was £48.4m.
 
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Echoing the takes here that it is incredible that the Kane’s are losing a PR war with Levy. GHod knows over the summer I was very against Levy and understood if Kane left. But the way they have handled it since has left a very sour taste and has got me back supporting Levy again! Amazing.

There were stories in the press during the Euros saying Kane might not return to training on time, so he and his brother are insulting our intelligence there. Same with trying to set his own price in the Neville interview. Same with this Telegraph piece - it’s all just so bad. He’s trying to drive the price down for City, and trying to paint Spurs as the bad guys for holding him to a contract and expecting market value.

And this is what I don’t get…just how bad they are at understanding strategy, and leverage. I think the Telegraph piece is partly Kane realising that the move might not happen, so his insistence that he will still try as hard as he can if selected is in part trying to build bridges. But I don’t think it was ever possible to both leave with your rep with the fans intact, and get the move you want if you go down this route.

Proper understanding of leverage would have had him understand he had none of it, that Levy wouldn’t give a toss about all the PR games, and that we would see right through any talk of gentlemen’s agreements as the horsebrick they are. If Kane really wanted to leave with a good reputation with the fans, he shouldn’t have done the Neville interview, he shouldn’t have done the Telegraph, and he shouldn’t have been the only English Euros finalist to fail to suit up on opening day. Because the price is the price. He can’t now say he hopes the fans understand after everything he has sanctioned. It isn’t possible. He had a choice, and he chose to try and trash us, to make sure we get less money, to sell a top player to a competitor. If he had held the same stance behind closed doors, nothing would have changed in terms of his leverage, because he had none, but if an acceptable bid came from City he would have left with most fans blessings after years of great service. He’s fudged it.

Personally, I hope he stays this year and leaves next summer. 2 years left means he will have some leverage. He may be 29, but that will be his fault for signing a 6 year contract. I would expect him to give 100% when he plays this year and I wouldn’t be concerned about team spirit, I think if anything the spirit will be helped by the squad knowing they play for a club that had the balls to stand up to a top club to keep a top player. If the fans want him gone this month, it means City win. We shouldn’t play into their hands.

City only want to appear like they are frugal because they know if they are seen to spend frivolously because they do have the money then the price goes up for every player. Again, we shouldn’t play their game. I just cannot believe how stupid the Kane’s have been, and how they didn’t understand the lack of leverage they had in this whole situation. Absolute amateur hour.
 
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