Vlaovic Watch One potential development to keep an eye on: for a while the fee getting bandied about was €60m, but apparently Fiorentina have dropped that to €50m I'm currently looking to see if Paratici has told the Gazetta dello Sport that, if they don't sell him to us this summer, we will buy him for less next summer - only for Fiorentina to mistakenly consult a Gregorian calendar?
If we’re talking players in the deal, I’d take Laporte but doubt he’d want to join us. Building the defence around him and Romero would be nice. Rather have cash than Jesus or any of the other names mentioned though.
I always thought that they could have been publicly vocal in telling the PFA that it was the right thing to do rather than hiding behind the PFA because it suited them to do so
It was great to sew Jimenez back in action (and scoring), if only for a friendly. But most online chatter suggests it'll be a long while yet until he's back to his best, if ever. He'll probably be a bit-part player for the first half of the season if not longer and slowly reintegrate into first team action. Still worth a gamble if he can be got on the cheap but we'd need to sign another striker anyway to replace Kane from day 1.
The problem there was a united front was needed, so saying that Kane and Lloris should have done so wouldn't have been enough If the entire England team did so that's heading in the right direction, all the Home Nations even better (although also difficult, what with other bodies covering the wages of the likes of Gareth Bale or a large chunk of the Scotland team, and for that matter Jadon Sancho) but what really needed to be done was a group of clubs banding together Instead we got a group of clubs banding together to join the ESL while also trying to use the pandemic as a shield as if two of those clubs didn't have bottomless pits of money
I guess that rules out Rashford, then, as he's ruled out until either October or January depending on who's saying it
This is why having the England and France captains set the example, especially given that we were one of the few clubs that was going to furlough it's staff, was so important. My hope was that it would shame other players into doing the same.
Instead, we had former England captain Wayne Rooney bleating in various newspaper columns how calls for players to take pay cuts were leaving them feeling "victimised" and "discriminated against". The heart bleeds...
To be honest, Levy hasn't said he wont sell him. City haven't come up with an acceptable bid. I'm fairly sure if they do have a gentleman's agreement it would be on the basis of an acceptable offer being made. If Kane has thrown his toys out of the pram he needs to grow up, nobody held a gun to his head and forced him to sign the contract.
The obvious problem there is that if, for the sake of argument, Jamie Vardy and Anthony Martial didn't follow their captain's example it would have collapsed on the spot What was needed was the PFA to be publicly shamed for their baffling stance and their mealy-mouthed explanation for it, but they got a free pass from players and pundits alike
Re potential replacements for Kane, I've been mulling over us going for PL-proven options. Calvert-Lewin or Bamford spring to mind. Of the two, the latter strikes me as more versatile and is entering his peak years. The former is still relatively young and definitely has scope to improve. Both players good at hold-up play. Bamford's assist rate is pretty good for a lone striker plus he is entering the final year of his contract. I dunno, there's something about him I like. He did things the hard way. Made a naiive decision joining Chelsea as a youngster who then dicked him around for years on end. But he kept his head down, grafted at Boro then grafted more at Leeds and is now one of the top strikers in the PL. I think we should test Leeds' resolve. Get another fanbase to hate us before the end of the summer.
Kane is the one engineering this. There were reports two weeks ago he wouldn't turn up for training, and look what has happened today. The bloke is putting his desire to win cheap and hollow medals before Spurs, he is trying to get us to fold so he gets what he wants and has been promised by £ity. His brother and the media have had plenty of blame, but Kane is the driving force behind every part of this saga. He may have done legendary things on the pitch for Spurs while he has been here, but these actions mean he is no legend. The club and fans should be disgusted by his actions, no true legend shiets on his boyhood club in this way. I hope Levy rinses those oil money doped caaants for more than £150m, and I hope Kane goes on to win fack all.
Jesus Christ I’m glad you’re not in charge of our transfers . They’re the types of striker you’d sign as a Kane backup, not a replacement.
Jamie O'Hara saying Spurs fans wouldn't begrudge Kane going on strike to force a move. I don't know how he has got a job in broadcasting and it really annoys me that he has become some sort of spokes person for Spurs fans. He has the same IQ as a brick.
I’ve always liked the look of that Martinez chap at Inter…feisty and clinical from what I’ve seen…and if I was going to take a gamble it would be him.
