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Harry Kane MBE

elyid said:
Player swaps are never going to improve the team as efficiently as cash. Think at this point we should just let City know a cash price and say pay it or bugger off.
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Isn’t that what the 160m reveal at Kane’s brothers wedding was all about?
 
While I think Kane is probably our most im portant player and last season he was the absolute difference between us scraping in to the Euro also rans competition and lower mid-table nothingness, I don't necessarily think keeping him at all costs will be the right thing to do and ideally I think we need to avoid a tense scenario late in the window when we'll either end up with no time to secure a good replacement or an unhappy player who isn't giving his all.

I think we would consider about £150m to be a good price and if we look at players that Emirates Marketing Project might want to use in part exchange and our own player needs at Spurs then the one who would interest me in any deal is Laporte, there have also been stories that he is unhappy there since Stones and Dias became their first choice partnership. Laporte would seem to me to be the perfect natural partner for Romero (I'm assuming that we will sign Romero this week).

Laporte plus about £100 to £120m for Kane would mean that we would likely have completely sorted out the centre of our defence which was easily our weakest position last season. We could sell Sanchez to cover close to half of Romero's fee and perhaps have as much as £100m to spend on further strengthening the team with us only having a small net spend overall.....

Then doing something like: £45m for Vlahovic, £25m for Ings, £15m for Tomiyasu and £15m for Pereira would leave us with a strong, balanced, squad with lots of good young players who can grow together so that, with a few further astute additions, we could challenge for trophies next season....

Lloris, Gollini, Whiteman
Tomiyasu, Dohery, Aurier
Romero, Laporte, Dier, Rodon, Tanganga
Regulion, Sessegnon, Davies
Hojbjerg, Skipp, Lo Celso, Ndombele, Winks, Sissoko
Pereira, Son, Moura, Dele, Bergwijn, Gil, Clarke
Vlahovic, Ings, Scarlett

Some of those in bold could be sold/loaned and perhaps allow another signing or two to be made as well (I think another strong, powerful, box to box central midfielder might be beneficial for example)
 
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@Finney Is Back you are making two assumptions

- Laporte wants to come and his wages are manageable
- City's "offer" was a £100M +players (I think it was a £100M including players)

City isn't Levy, if they really wanted Kane they would have done the deal, paid slightly over the odds and got him in post Euros. The fact that they are still faffing around while putting in hard offers for Grealish tells me Kane is just opportunistic for them, if they get to mug us, sure, if not, they will likely go for Haaland next summer.
 
afsoc4life said:
Foden is not a proven winner at senior level. Think back to Dele some years back. You think Foden is as good as Dele back then? I don't see it.

Yes he has won a lot as part of the squad but key member. No.
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I think Foden has won more than Dele, so not sure about the proven winner statement.

You’ll see that I’m one of Dele’s biggest fans but they are different type of players and if anything their numbers aren’t actually that dissimilar, which includes a 20+ goal season that looks more and more like a freak event. Of course any individual success at City does need to be caveated with their dominance man for man across the pitch and you could make a case that in a better team Dele may hit the big numbers again.

City don’t really have a key player, maybe De Bruyne but he is seemingly become injury prone.

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Foden contributed as much as most of his more experienced peers in terms of final numbers. I can’t think of a team in world football who wouldn’t be interested in him and any circumstance City would want to sell. Unless Grealish comes in and he ends up benched, can’t see why he’d want to leave.
If Grealish joins it will be interesting what becomes of him, he seems to relish in the responsibility of the Villa team looking for him to make something happen, can’t seem him getting anywhere near the same licence, passes or even game time at City.
 
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Raziel said:
@Finney Is Back you are making two assumptions

- Laporte wants to come and his wages are manageable
- City's "offer" was a £100M +players (I think it was a £100M including players)

City isn't Levy, if they really wanted Kane they would have done the deal, paid slightly over the odds and got him in post Euros. The fact that they are still faffing around while putting in hard offers for Grealish tells me Kane is just opportunistic for them, if they get to mug us, sure, if not, they will likely go for Haaland next summer.
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I have no idea whether Laporte would want to come. It has been reported that he wants out of Emirates Marketing Project though and if we can't attract a player that wants out from their club then it shows how poor our direction these past few years as we would've been considered a club that could challenge Emirates Marketing Project for silverware 3 or 4 years ago.

Laporte's wages are said to be about £120k a week, so would be covered by us having shipped out Alderweireld (I'm guessing though that Laporte might want a wage hike to be prepared to 'drop down' to us. However Toby was reported to be on anywhere between £120k and £180k a week so our wage bill wouldn't really suffer - especially with our highest wage earner in Kane leaving the club).

We don't yet know what Emirates Marketing Project have bid for Grealish. It may be that Villa have put a more sensible price on his head than we have put on Harry Kane.

IMO an opening offer of £100m (even if made up of players) is a very large opening offer and suggests that getting it up to £150m might be achievable.

I agree with you though that they are likely to go for Haaland next summer (I actually wonder whether we'll end up keeping Kane for one more season then see him join Man Utd for £100m in a year's time).
 
Bedfordspurs said:
Would bite their hand off
Shame it’s not gonna be true
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We still lose an irreplaceable player. I wouldn't be celebrating. Better to keep Kane for another year. Yes it would be a fair deal, and we'd potentially fix one area of the team, while having cash to replace Kane with an inferior player (who might develop into a player of comparable quality).
 
SpurMeUp said:
We still lose an irreplaceable player. I wouldn't be celebrating. Better to keep Kane for another year. Yes it would be a fair deal, and we'd potentially fix one area of the team, while having cash to replace Kane with an inferior player (who might develop into a player of comparable quality).
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It’s Not a case of “celebrating” it’s more a case of being realistic!
 
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