It's also too late to sell him now though. If everyone knows we have £130mil in the back pocket and only two weeks to find a Kane replacement, we're going to be mugged off by everybody. No chance of getting a reasonable deal done.
Has that stopped Spurs before?
What does that even mean? I don't think there are any gentlemen in football. Certainly no honour or morals.
On VAR - I'll believe that when I see it.
On VAR - I'll believe that when I see it.
On Kane - I don't understand why he would think not attending training will make City stump up £150mil.
The plan was probably to keep him one more year and sell him next summer for £100m anyway. As I've said it's pointless selling him now, we've got no chance of getting anything like a decent replacement in a couple of weeks.
Surely though your director of football, manager etc will have a wishlist of players lined up, some possible before, some possible now. Players are watched all of the time so it is not as if you suddenly have to start from scratch now. You just need to get the Kane deal done and put plan C into action asap. The only ones suffering if Levy plays a long game is Spurs. You need to leave the selling clubs time to get their player in otherwise the cost goes up even more or you are left with no-one. At this stage you can still get good replacements.
Doesn't matter who he's lined up, they won't be as good as Kane. As I said yesterday, any striker who's even 80% of Kane's level, we'll get absolutely ripped off for them because they'll know we have that money burning a hole. It's a lose-lose situation.
That's life though. The key is to use the money well and end up stronger as a team.
Just like they did after selling Bale? ?
