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Harry Kane MBE

Wow, that onion I chopped last night is very belatedly kicking in. My eyes are rather watery after watching that video.

Farewell Harry. Thank you for everything, it has been a pleasure and a privilege to have been able to watch you over the years. There will always be a welcome at the Lane.
Good luck, hope your dreams come true.
 
Mr Gogolak said:
Another way to look at it would be to finally get the 'football house' in order and stop people from investing ridiculous sums of money just because they can. Everybody's guilty here (except, it has to be said, France who, until recently, kept their clubs on a very tight leash financially): the Spanish crown 'erased' Real Madrid's debt, England's policy seems to be 'live and let live', Germany's been a one-club nation for the past 50 years and Italy were happy to let their clubs overspend until they stopped dominating European football.

At this point, everybody knows it's a house of cards. If players weren't considered 'assets', most clubs would be in bankruptcy by now. Football's economic model is completely absurd: clubs spend money they don't have to make players richer than they are and then their survival depend on astronomic TV deals. One day, it will stop. And it's not impossible: they did it in France for 40 years. You get your accounts checked at the end of the season and if you can't give assurances that any deficit will be purged next season, down you go. It's harsh and it's not ideal when you want to compete with clubs/countries who don't apply the same rules but it makes the competition so much more interesting (as long as club owners don't bribe the referees, that is).

Who needs players to be billionaires? Harry Kane is a superb player but does his talent need to be rewarded a hundred times more than Hoddle's, for instance?
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fudging love this as it’s so true
People talk about it no longer being a working man’s game too

it can’t be because the money in the game has gone up and up in a non linear way…

players are getting paid more than ever, even if they are brick

transfer fees are getting bigger and bigger even if a player hasn’t played much football

it’s a gold rush basically

and the poor fudgers who suffer the most are the fans who go

we pay more at every club than we used too

the product gets changed to suit armchair fans at a whim. KO change with short notice is standard now

And it’s to feed the TV beast that expects it product with the money ending up lining the pockets of the players and agents.

I can’t think of a football owner off the top of my head who has made money (there will be some)

but there are many many players that have walked away form the game so rich is unreal

people will say they are the product. But they aren’t. It’s a package. Without the fans, the games are very very different. Almost computer simulations. And we pay the highest price economically and emotionally
 
Surfless said:
Sleeping on it was the quite hard. I watched Ali Gold's latest video too which brought home to me that we really have failed as a club. Since Poch it's been carnage, which given the calibre of managers we've had just shows how awful we have been in other ways.
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Those manager are massively accountable too
 
Bedfordspurs said:
He is done here now
He has to build his brand to be the next beckham
He needs the trophies of support that
By the time he can come back Saudi Sportswashing Machine’s will be turning over a make believe £1b and paying £400k a week to their cleaners
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Horrible thought !!!
 
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