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Harry Kane MBE

A gentleman's agreement:

“When I had Luka Modric at Tottenham it was quite similar.

“Chelsea made him a fantastic offer and he fancied the move, but he was under contract and Daniel [Levy] wouldn’t accept their offer so he had to stay.

“Luka got on with it and played and said ‘give me one more season and we’ll sell you with the right offer’.

“It seems like something similar has happened with Harry. Daniel has said ‘give us another year’, but unless he’s got something in writing or an actual figure.

“Daniel is probably saying ‘I will sell you, I said I’ll sell you next year and I will do that, but I’m not going to sell you cheap. If I don’t get the money I want, you are not going to move’.

“Tottenham are within their rights to do that.

https://talksport.com/football/920771/
 
Raziel said:
Kane wants to play every fudging game and he wants to score and break Shearer's record.

If he stays past the window, we will have no problem with him, next summer will be a repeat brickshow but the season will be fine.
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I would’ve agreed with you until this week. I think we could end up with a situation similar to the end of Eriksen’s time with us - we’ll have a player operating at 70 - 80% and with his mind primarily on a move.

Hope I’m wrong though.
 
Raziel said:
£130M is still £30M away from anything that City have reportedly put forward.

It isn't about "winning", it's about doing the best thing for the club (and part of that is supporting the manager as best and early as possible), but part of it is precedent. Allowing our best player to leave to a low ball offer because he threw his toys out of the pram leaves us in a place where we have worked very hard to get away from (United & Chelsea generally stay to fudge away from us because they know they will get fleeced)

£130M cash +bonuses might fly, but see my first line, city is no where near that right now.
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None of us have any idea what City have or have not put forward....
 
NaijaSpurs said:
Nah, Kane has really tinkled off Levy, Daniel will not want to look weak in front of the footballing world. Bale flew to Spain and gave up on us but it costs Real Madrid a record feel I believe. I see no reality whereby Levy accepts less than £150
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Daniel Levy should not give a sh!t about 'looking weak'. He just needs to do what is best for THFC. At present that is probably to ensure that the new manager goes into the season with adequate replacements for Harry Kane and a stronger squad overall than we had last season.
 
NaijaSpurs said:
A gentleman's agreement:

“When I had Luka Modric at Tottenham it was quite similar.

“Chelsea made him a fantastic offer and he fancied the move, but he was under contract and Daniel [Levy] wouldn’t accept their offer so he had to stay.

“Luka got on with it and played and said ‘give me one more season and we’ll sell you with the right offer’.

“It seems like something similar has happened with Harry. Daniel has said ‘give us another year’, but unless he’s got something in writing or an actual figure.

“Daniel is probably saying ‘I will sell you, I said I’ll sell you next year and I will do that, but I’m not going to sell you cheap. If I don’t get the money I want, you are not going to move’.

“Tottenham are within their rights to do that.

https://talksport.com/football/920771/
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It’s exactly the conversation I imagine happened. Redknapp would have better info on the Modric scenario than anyone else bar Modric and Levy. No reason to think anything different happened with Kane.
 
Finney Is Back said:
Daniel Levy should not give a sh!t about 'looking weak'. He just needs to do what is best for THFC. At present that is probably to ensure that the new manager goes into the season with adequate replacements for Harry Kane and a stronger squad overall than we had last season.
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I agree his main concern shouldn't be about not 'looking weak'. But what is best for THFC is perhaps multi-layered. Shorter term yes, making sure Nuno has what he needs is important (not least having a feasible striker option, be that Kane staying, or someone else, and any other players needed), but there is also a message to be sent that a) if you want to buy a player we don't want to sell, you have to come up with a reasonable bid, and b) if you are the player who wants to leave, you are not going to blackmail us into letting you go if the offer is not right. It's a bit of a balancing act for Levy to get right.
 
Lilbaz said:
Not according to modric.
https://www.si.com/soccer/chelsea/n...ory-behind-failed-transfer-to-chelsea-in-2011

He went to madrid the next season.
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Thanks mate.... Strange as I was sure I'd read that Modric thought he had an agreement that he would be allowed to leave for a bigger club in the CL or something like that? I must be mistaken.

Reading through that link I saw the following quote from Modric: 'I wanted to fight for trophies and win titles, and I felt this wouldn’t happen if I stayed at Tottenham. I wanted to move to a more ambitious club.'

Players want to win trophies. The best players want to play for the best clubs so that they can achieve this. Until we change the dynamic at Spurs so that we are considered to be one of those ambitious clubs we will always lose any genuine World class players that we have.
 
fudge is going on now, was he due back yesterday and today or not hahaha

If the isolating thing is true why not simply state that yesterday? all the journos had sources in the club saying how we were unhappy about it, big fine incoming, this has only bolstered Levy's stance etc etc.

Has he u-turned and we're accommodating it with the isolating story?
 
Finney Is Back said:
Thanks mate.... Strange as I was sure I'd read that Modric thought he had an agreement that he would be allowed to leave for a bigger club in the CL or something like that? I must be mistaken.

Reading through that link I saw the following quote from Modric: 'I wanted to fight for trophies and win titles, and I felt this wouldn’t happen if I stayed at Tottenham. I wanted to move to a more ambitious club.'

Players want to win trophies. The best players want to play for the best clubs so that they can achieve this. Until we change the dynamic at Spurs so that we are considered to be one of those ambitious clubs we will always lose any genuine World class players that we have.
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The last bit is fair comment for the vast majority of players (Shearer, Le Tiss, Sonny are notable exceptions). To be fair to Levy, he's raised our profile to the extent that we are considered one of the 12 biggest clubs in Europe. We were nowhere near that when he took over. On the playing side, under Poch, we definitely got within touching distance of glory to the extent that Kane signed for 6 years with us. We're not a million miles away and the stadium was supposed to get us closer but the pandemic has fudged that so far.

I know you're down on Levy so I do have to counter balance the above by saying he has made some serious missteps since the CL final that have set us back.
 
Finney Is Back said:
Daniel Levy should not give a sh!t about 'looking weak'. He just needs to do what is best for THFC. At present that is probably to ensure that the new manager goes into the season with adequate replacements for Harry Kane and a stronger squad overall than we had last season.
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Personally I am off the view that not looking weak and doing what is best for Spurs are not mutually exclusive.

Besides, I think it is in the interest of Spurs not to accept every mediocre bid for a key player just because said player refuses to turn up for training.

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Finney Is Back said:
Thanks mate.... Strange as I was sure I'd read that Modric thought he had an agreement that he would be allowed to leave for a bigger club in the CL or something like that? I must be mistaken.

Reading through that link I saw the following quote from Modric: 'I wanted to fight for trophies and win titles, and I felt this wouldn’t happen if I stayed at Tottenham. I wanted to move to a more ambitious club.'

Players want to win trophies. The best players want to play for the best clubs so that they can achieve this. Until we change the dynamic at Spurs so that we are considered to be one of those ambitious clubs we will always lose any genuine World class players that we have.
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@najiaspurs posted the redknapp interview. He said he told modric (after the failed chelsea move) that he could leave the next summer. We then sold him to madrid.
 
Finney Is Back said:
Let's ignore the Carling Cup final bit. Not even the chairman cares about that competition as evidenced by his actions this season.

We were reasonably involved in one title race only (we were never involved in the title race when we finished second to Chelsea) and we also got to a Champions League final which was incredible. However both of those happened under a fantastic coach who wasn't adequately backed if we wanted to take the next step. That was all quite a long time ago now as well....

Consider our team from back then and now.... Significantly weaker at right back, centre back, left back, central midfield, offensive midfield. The only two positions where we have stayed competitive with our competition is in goal and up front.

I don't think Kane would restrict himself to joining Emirates Marketing Project only. I think he would also be prepared to join Chelsea or Man Utd, probably even Liverpool, its just that Emirates Marketing Project seem to be the club who are most interested in him. Kane stayed with us while we were still in the Champions League, he also stayed for a further season when we failed to reach it (though he did ask to leave). Kane is an elite level player and elite level players want to be playing in the biggest competitions and fighting for the biggest trophies. Bale, Modric and Berbatov all came to the same conclusion as Harry Kane.... that they need to leave for a better club if they want to win the big trophies.
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I didn't even understand his argument because we had all those players he mentioned and none of them won us the competitions he said they would have won besides the CC with Berbatov. [emoji848]

Most of them never even got close to winning anything except for the time we've had Kane.

Now he's not bigger than the club, no player ever is. But let's not start changing history. He's been instrumental in the progress the club has made. Without a striker to score the chances we would never have even gotten close to winning anything, just think back to Harry Redknapp's side that was desperately lacking that quality.
 
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