Transfer Rumours transfer thread fact and fiction

Could extend his deal and loan him out. He's been involved quite a lot recently, so he might be ok with that.
He needs to be playing first team football regularly, as does Austin. If they feel that they have to leave to get it, then I think that's fair.

 

I like how a Mansourite ITK knows what we've been discussing in board meetings...

 

A quick one from today's BBC gossip page, since I still haven't shaken this stomach bug I had at the weekend...

Tottenham, Arsenal and Manchester United are all interested in signing Bayern Munich midfielder Corentin Tolisso, with the German champions wanting €10m to aid their pursuit of RB Leipzig's Marcel Sabitzer. (Bild - in German)

So, here's a thought: rather than help Bayern out by giving them 2/3 of the Sabitzer fee, why don't we just sign Sabitzer?

 

Romero's medical.

 

Sabitzer was a boyhood Bayern fan and previously worked with Nagelsmann. I can’t see him going anywhere but there now tbh.

 

He's got a year left on his contract, so if he doesn't want to wait for Bayern to do what Bayern do...

 

Moise Kean is being linked with a move to Inter.
He has deleted anything Everton-related from his social media.

 

Harry Redknapp's solid take on the Kane scenario and some much needed levity at Darren Bent's expense.

 

Now why would Inter be looking to sign a striker...?

 

Kounde Watch
Monchi has publicly stated he is waiting for Chelsea to make a bid, as there is none on the table

Alright, Jules, where do we rank on your "You'll do..." scale this week? I'm expecting at least a Bassong in the unveiling photo - while Sanchez looks delighted in his

Portuguese Rando Watch
Sporting DM Joao Palhinha has once again been linked, with Record (the Portuguese one, not the Scottish one) once again linking him to us like they did back in June, but now both A Bola and O Jogo are joining in

Yes, those are real names

 

Think they'll cough up on the last day.
Both they and Kane can not allow this not to happen.

 

Love Harry. Wasn't long before the "Spurs" became "we" in his conversation.

 

Kane and City need to be given a fixed deadline that should it happen, we can replace him. Levy is risking demonstrations against him if Kane goes without a suitable replacement - and by that I mean 2 or 3 top players to improve the team.

 

I’d say we should shut the door on the move now. City have had long enough to meet our asking price and three weeks (or less) is not a sufficient amount of time to replace one of the top two strikers in world football, you simply can’t replace him with just one player either.

Keep him for this season, he’ll still bang in plenty of goals providing he don’t get injuries and he can get his “dream move” next summer.

This will then have allowed Nuno and Fabio to have worked with one another for a whole year, Nuno will have hopefully implemented his own style by then and Fabio will have had solid time to sound out replacements to ideally fit Nuno’s system.

Replacing Kane now feels like a huge risk to me. Vlahovic and Martinez have been the two big names we’ve been linked with and as Hudd has rightly pointed out in the past, Vlahovic just had his first great season - could he be a one season wonder? - whereas for as exciting as Martinez looks, his goal scoring pedigree is nowhere near Kane’s level at the moment.

In an ideal world we’d sign one of those and keep Kane this window, not sure if our finances can stretch to that but it’d provide us the security of them having a year to adapt whilst Kane continues to score goals should they struggle in their first season.

With the likes of Gollini, Romero, Gil plus possibly two or three others needing to adapt, needing a new striker to replace Kane if he left now feels like too big of an ask and would leave us in a messy situation.

 

If you ask me, this is exactly what Man City's intention is. Eliminate as many threats to the top tier as possible, and as is within their power, all before a ball is kicked in the league. Despite what many think, including lots of our own fans sadly, we definitely pose a threat, especially with Kane in the team, and the rebuild very much happening in a way that isn't happening for many teams right now. (Boxing and NFL about to add funds, along with stadium and training shirt sponsors.)

I say get Vlahovic and Martinez and keep Kane if at all possible.

Why is it weird to think we could have three senior strikers in the squad at once all of a sudden?

 

Your logic is sound but tbh it wouldn't surprise me if Kane has refused to consider playing.

His behaviour throughout has been a disgrace so I'd be very surprised if he put in decent performances. Out of the 4 games last season after he mouthed off he put in 2 piss poor performances v Villa and Leeds.

Want him gone as soon as...just my opinion though and I know it ain't too logical

 

I don’t think we pose enough threat to City for the title but with the right signings and luck with injuries/ fitness we can get back into the top four, or at least top six.

It’d be great to do that but I don’t think we have the finances to make it possible. Those two combined are costing over £100m and so I think the only we could finance that would be by selling Kane.

 

It looks like we're making sure we can get decent replacements in first and only then will we get rid, after the City game by the looks of it. The Berbatov saga is still fresh in people's minds.

 

I don’t think he would. He’s an ambitious guy both from an individual and team perspective, he wants Shearer’s record and so he’ll definitely play in my opinion.

I naturally want what’s best for Tottenham and right now keeping Kane is probably that I’d say. Letting him go now is just too risky, there isn’t a true standout replacement and there’s still a lot of work needed for the rest of the XI, let alone having the problem of replacing one of the best strikers - in fact players - in world football.

 

Gil has (finally!) arrived.