Harry Kane MBE

[Glenda's Legs]

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 was originally thinking it would be usual practice to reach out to a player's agent, but not the player directly of course. But even then I guess the club making the contact would have to do that via their own intermediary, if at all. It's obvious there's been contact though, so what would constitute tapping up these days? Especially when the player has pretty much openly solicited the move.
Anyway, the latest from this City 'ITK' is that part of the delegation to meet with Kane's people is a 'contracts person'. If there were even an inkling of truth in this, which there won't be, it would be fun to see Levy report City to the PL for unauthorised contact. And put the price up again.

 

[NoLimits01]

Hmmm .. sell Kane for £150M, buy Lewandowski for say £80M-£85 (€100M), gives you three years to get some combination of our young strikers to make the transition?

and beating Kane to the golden boot for the next 2 years

 

[AdamB]

Inter have the Lukaku money and need to replace him.

They sold him because of the debt load. I cant see that they can spend all the cash on a CF. They wouldnt have sold Lukaku otherwise

 

[Legohamster]

There is no way Lewandowski goes to a club playing in the Europa Conference.

So he is going to Arsenal?

 

[Jordinho]

Telegraph haven't given up.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1428249471314505731

https://twitter.com/x/status/1428240532342464513

 

[Terry Cunningham]

Both chelsea and city were prepared to pay the asking price for haaland this summer of €175m which is about £148m.

Both have been unable to convince him to change his mind on his ‘pre-agreement’ with real madrid.

Its the worst kept secret in football and media outlets running stories on haaland’s next destination are doing so for views and clicks only.

They know that both mbappe and haaland join real madrid next summer.

It would be interesting if lewandowski went to city for £100m and then bayern should be able to scrape together £150m for kane.

 

[Terry Cunningham]

I thought Real, and Spanish clubs in general were completely broke?

 

[ricky2tricky4city]

Inter have the Lukaku money and need to replace him.

Inters transfer fund won't be seeing a penny of that.

 

[superspurs]

I thought Real, and Spanish clubs in general were completely broke?

Will assume a full season of the Bernabeu being full and Bale off the wage bill at the end of the season will give them enough leeway to fit a few players in.

Isn't the release clause for Haaland fairly "cheap" next summer at 75m euro too?

 

[superspurs]

Inters transfer fund won't be seeing a penny of that.

One report stated they could use 30m out of the 185m they had recouped in transfers/wages etc so far this summer, ouch.

 

[AdamB]

It would be interesting if lewandowski went to city for £100m and then bayern should be able to scrape together £150m for kane.

Bayern are quite disciplined with transfers. They attract players because of how big they are and can gaurantee trophies, decent shots at the CL etc

I don't see them spending £150m on Kane, even if City given the £100m for Lewandowki (which I also dont see them doing). It would work for us, and probably Kane, but dont see Bayern doing it.

 

[Lilbaz]

I thought Real, and Spanish clubs in general were completely broke?

Real haven't spent for a while, have cut their debt and wage bill.

The other spanish teams (bar barca) have just done a deal with cvc to sell 10% of their tv rights for the next 50 years.

Covid has hit them hard but they're not in too bad shape. Especislly the smaller clubs who have seen their tv rights go up quite a bit in recent years.

 

[Bedfordspurs]

Real haven't spent for a while, have cut their debt and wage bill.

The other spanish teams (bar barca) have just done a deal with cvc to sell 10% of their tv rights for the next 50 years.

Covid has hit them hard but they're not in too bad shape. Especislly the smaller clubs who have seen their tv rights go up quite a bit in recent years.

There not allowed to spend much of that new money on players
It’s for debt, then infrastructure first
Think the cap was about 20% or so

 

[Lilbaz]

There not allowed to spend much of that new money on players
It’s for debt, then infrastructure first
Think the cap was about 20% or so

Still means they are not completely broke. They don't need to sell players or cut their wage bills to pay off debt. Financially they are ok at the moment.

 

[Bedfordspurs]

Still means they are not completely broke. They don't need to sell players or cut their wage bills to pay off debt. Financially they are ok at the moment.

Possibly don’t need to sell
But would do if they are buying
As the income from last season has gone

 

[Lilbaz]

Possibly don’t need to sell
But would do if they are buying
As the income from last season has gone

Who we talking about specifically? If it's real, they can afford to buy players. They've made profits the last couple of years according to their financial reports. Last seasons results aren't out yet and they will possibly face a loss but they have sold some of their image rights (or something) i believe.

It's only really barca and atletico that have big problems.

 

[AjaxDeSuperYids]

Who we talking about specifically? If it's real, they can afford to buy players. They've made profits the last couple of years according to their financial reports. Last seasons results aren't out yet and they will possibly face a loss but they have sold some of their image rights (or something) i believe.

It's only really barca and atletico that have big problems.

Yes and next summer real madrid sign haaland, mbappe, pogba, camavinga and maybe dybala. The last four arrive on free deals.

Joining varane, ramos and odegaard, next summer also sees the departures of bale, hazard, modric, marcelo and maybe also isco.

 

[Bedfordspurs]

Who we talking about specifically? If it's real, they can afford to buy players. They've made profits the last couple of years according to their financial reports. Last seasons results aren't out yet and they will possibly face a loss but they have sold some of their image rights (or something) i believe.

It's only really barca and atletico that have big problems.

Atletico
This comment were more focussed on them buy Vlahovic

 

[P.D.]

I think Real aren't in too bad shape, they'll have Bale of their wage bill next summer. Ramos and Varane are already off it and bar Hazard and Alaba (who was free) they haven't been too active in the market. Probably go on a big spree next summar, infact I think there will be a lot of transfers next summer.

 

[Lilbaz]

Atletico
This comment were more focussed on them buy Vlahovic

I said earlier it seemed a strange move for them. They do have money though.

They just sold a third of the club raising €181m. Also the cvc deal, which should take care of any short term debt. Not sure how much atleti will get, but it's €2.1bn between the 18 clubs (not barca or madrid), of which atleti will get the biggest share. So probably more than €200m.

So can they go for vlahovic? Yes. Should they? Probably not. Unless they are planning to offload. But then atletico were in the situation they were because they spent too much on players. But won la liga.