With an embarrassing performance in the defeat to Leeds United in our last match, Tottenham Hotspur now have three more chances to try and end, what has ultimately been a disappointing 2020/21 campaign, on a high as we welcome Wolverhampton Wanderers to White Hart Lane.
After so much early promise when we were challenging well on all fronts, the wheels well and truly fell off after the turn of the year, and even the relative high points have still been tinged with disappointments given our inconsistent, pragmatic approach to attacking.
It’s going to be a difficult, but big and important summer, for Spurs – the main question for fans will be answered by the next managerial appointment. Get that right and there will be renewed hope of the type of player turnover most seem to want, get that wrong and many will take it as a sign that nothing has changed and certainly, that nothing has been learned.
Wolves first, Aston Villa next and then Leicester City for the curtain closer.
To Dare Is To Do, so will we do just that?
I could just about stomach him going to City but not Manure or the Chavs.
He’s earned the right to go where he wants. For me it’s not so much where he goes, but how much we get for him. Levy has to be prepared to reinbest all of it into a couple of world class players, not 7 gambles and or only a fraction of the fee.
My feeling is City would be his preferred option but Manure will probably offer the highest fee which Levy will find hard to turn down. As you say BS, it’s all about investing the money well.
Which could become a nightmare in itself. Harry has no obligation to join the club who offers the most if it doesn’t suit him, as I very much doubt he’s motivated by money. So if Levy digs in, Kane then digs in, team spirit goes to pot – it’ll affect other players who naturally will think of their own futures and whether the club will hold them to ransom in effect and regardless of professionalism, if folks aren’t happy, try as you might to still give 100% but it won’t happen subconsciously.
With that said, it’s also not a great surprise to see so many ‘unquoted and sourceless’ nonsense now doing the rounds – it’s prime clickbait and we’ve seen it before, and Harry has stayed and been pretty happy about it.
DW, your last para, my thought aswell, as you say we’ve seen it before, every bloody summer. COYS
My worry is that it starts a domino effect with all of our best players wanting out as well.
We’ll probably end up with about £60m plus Martial in p/ex.
£60m plus De Bruyne.
I just hope Levy realises he doesn’t have a lot of leverage in this case. There’s a lot of sympathy for Harry amongst Spurs fans and the last thing people want is a messy divorce. Hopefully sensible heads will prevail, and Levy will try to do the best he can with an imperfect situation. But digging his heels in isn’t going to change Kane’s mind, it’s only going to create friction.
If Levy wants any shot at salvaging this, he needs to go out and hire a world class manager in the next few days AND promise that manager a massive transfer budget to go out and buy 3 big players for the club. An outlay of 200+ million similar to Chelsea last year. I don’t see it happening, but it’s really the only card Levy has got.
If kane wants to leave he should do the right thing and hand in a transfer request
I think it’s only a matter of time before that happens.
Kane wants to jack it in at Spurs, here we go again every bloody summer.
I believe if Levy agrees it will be for the highest bid, but big Euro Club, not from another Prem Club, as he does normally say no to competitors. COYS
I suspect that any supporter of THFC who defends DL after losing Kane will be treated with a wee bit of animosity by other supporters. DL’s privileging of spending on concrete and steel beams over spending on the quality of the team will not be defended easily, and anyone mounting such a defence should expect a shrill response.
Let some yachts in the Caribbean be sold to raise the funds to bring in some world class players.
Let DL start wearing a false wig and beard if he wants to move about in peace.
The chairman whose vision of estate development has betrayed our traditions. The new stadium has become an albatross about the neck of the cockerel. The stadium that forced HK10 to ask to leave because the chairman preferred to let the team deteriorate so that he could build an Ozmandias statue.
For HK to give up on the future of our club is the last straw. DL OUT! DL has shown no sense of priorities. He favors training grounds and stadium over the humanity of our traditions.
HK10 wouldn’t be asking to leave if our chairman had not allowed he club to fall apart. Concrete and steel beams and José Mourninho–bad choices all when it came to the soul of the team on the pitch. When you’re running a team with a budget on a leash you don’t build a Trump Tower instead of a football team.
Okay. There’s my rant upon awakening today. My bad. Thanks to the gods for the therapy group here so I could rant to someone other than my lonesome self. I think I’ll go read some Wittgenstein. That’s another world, indeed, and another world is where we need to be.
I still think that four new players and the right manager can get us to play decently on the pitch next season, but to lose HK10 because of a new stadium is beyond anything that can be accepted easily. To have the best in the world who is a decent human being happens only once in a century, never mind a life time. What a decent man to have, to see him pissed away…
As you can see, I didn’t sleep peacefully last night.