..but really yes
Harry Kane | Bayern Munich player
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What is this based on? I keep reading stuff like this.
Only reason Levy hasn't sold him before is because he had leverage. Now he has virtually none. And the little bit he has left he can use to still make a decent amount of money.
Levy will obviously be desperate to sell to Bayern over us to save face, and that is probably the most likely outcome because of it. But if we come in with 30m more or whatever, he'll probably take it. Especially if Kane refuses to take the Bayern deal.
I'm offended by anyone who says we shouldn't go for Kane.
The fact Spurs do now want to sell (the idea they’d piss 80m away was always bullshit yet some believed it) gives Kane and his chosen club all the leverage. He can now decide where he wants to go. Sign Hojlund now, work on selling Fred, Elanga, Hannibal, Henderson, Martial, Williams, DVB and Bailly - and then have Kane say he isn’t signing a new deal middle of august. It won’t be a 100m fee then.
Had a feeling this would come back around. It’s not like us to just drop a target if they haven’t moved elsewhere yet.
Martial is also on the market and apparently already in discussion with Saudi clubs and we have the likes of Henderson, Heaton and Fred that will likely also be sold in the coming weeks.
Ideally we'd also get offers for McTominay too
We need sales to satisfy FFP. We have a 300 million credit facility.
If the rumours about Martial are true, no way would Hojlund alone be enough...
Martial and Baillys wages would probably cover the Kane transfer fee.
I dont know how we can work on Hojlund and Kane at the same time. I'd just like to see us drop a big offer on Kane and see if he pushes for it. Then move on if we feel they take the piss, but we should at least lodge a formal bid to see what happens.
I also find it somewhat interesting that the journalists breaking this Kane ultimatum news - Jackson, Ducker and now Luckhurst - are United ones.
I wouldn't say plenty as he could decline by then, but yeah it's definitely possible.
my take is this; Harry prefers United for the record and to stay in the PL but has been told he has to leave or sign a new deal, so Bayern is a very decent back-up choice
Obvious brief
I know I’m probably in the minority but I really don’t find the idea of signing another slow and aging striker appealing at all. I know he guarantees goals but I just fear that we’ll become very static in attack.
Veil of fire plays softly in the background
We 100% should go for Kane.
True but Spurs don't really have any power here. If he wants to leave for nothing next year then he will.
Meaning we’re still very much in touch with his camp. The idea we’d walked away and just given up was always folly.
We could afford Kane FFP wise if they were willing to get the fee in instalments but I doubt Levy would be interested in that.
I don't think it works like that.
Harry van Kanesie vibes
Brief to speed things up with Atalanta?
Yeah, I too would be worried about the best striker in EPL history ruining what would otherwise be a team with world-class scoring abilities. I'd hate it if he got in the way of the 3 goals Martial is going to score next season.
I genuinely think we want both and have always wanted both. Whitwell wrote that ETH wanted a senior striker and a young striker 4 weeks ago. I just don’t see any universe where our only attacking signing is Hojlund.
We can't afford to get into a long saga, potentially miss out on Kane while other targets go elsewhere. Kane is too good of a player that it's absolutely worth exploring.
I don't think it will happen though as Spurs aren't going to go from saying they won't sell him to a rival to then offering a reasonable price.
Hopefully this ultimatum is very serious and Spurs are keen sellers as they will also be keen to being in a replacement as soon as possible too.
I don't think it will happen though as Spurs aren't going to go from saying they won't sell him to a rival to then offering a reasonable price.
Hopefully this ultimatum is very serious and Spurs are keen sellers as they will also be keen to being in a replacement as soon as possible too.
Now this has got me all worked up all over again.
If there is any real indication out there right now that we COULD feasibly sign Kane this summer- and we don't do it- it would be the single biggest failure of judgment by this club post-Ferguson.
If there is any real indication out there right now that we COULD feasibly sign Kane this summer- and we don't do it- it would be the single biggest failure of judgment by this club post-Ferguson.
Even if we break FFP again it's just a small fine. If we win the league, the prize money will more than cover it.
Not for those wages. Ridiculous.
I’d take the fine and the reduced CL squad to 22 for Kane.
Could maybe see us late in the deadline if we make enough from player sales dropping a big offer that Spurs think about. Even then I think they would refuse it unless it was silly, which it wouldn’t be, and by the way we won’t make enough from player sales to offer anything they’d even think about. I think the possibility is so slim.
Levy won't sell to United. He will go Bayern
He wants almost 600k a week?
So this is how it goes.
We now panic and enter deep negotiations with Spurs.
We play back and forth all summer.
In the mean time Højlund signs for PSG relatively quickly in the background.
We reach an impasse with Spurs with a week to go of the window.
We flounder and panic probably throw close to 100m for Mouani or Ramos, still only have that player as a striker and he struggles to make an immediate impact leaving us with still the need of a no.1 striker.
So this is how it goes.
We now panic and enter deep negotiations with Spurs.
We play back and forth all summer.
In the mean time Højlund signs for PSG relatively quickly in the background.
We reach an impasse with Spurs with a week to go of the window.
We flounder and panic probably throw close to 100m for Mouani or Ramos, still only have that player as a striker and he struggles to make an immediate impact leaving us with still the need of a no.1 striker.
We can still afford it, it would still be amortised for 5 years through his contract for ffp.
From what I’ve been told on here about ffp, selling Elanga for 15m would allow us to sign a player paying instalments for 15m a year this summer so over the 5 years that would free up 75m for Kane alone using this years accounts
The word “Brief” needs to be banned from the CAF. Ridiculous to think that we’d brief this to “speed things up” when we haven’t even tabled a fecking bid.
All of the articles posted above.
Elanga and Henderson
We can if the Glazers pump in money into the club to sort out any FFP issue and just ask the eventual buyer to pay them back.