Losing Harry Kane this summer will be a tough hit for sure but it will not be the end of the world and neither does it mean that Spurs will all of a sudden start dropping down the table and become a mid-table team.
Tottenham have been here before, not only did they cope with losing Gareth Bale they then went on and became an established top-four side, title challengers and Champions League finalists.
The club has sold the likes of Dimitar Berbatov, Luka Modric, Michael Carrick, Christian Eriksen and so on and they will lose top players in the future.
It is how you recruit replacements that really matters, get that right and all will be fine, if not, then there will be a period of decay.
It is not just Tottenham that loses their best players, Eden Hazard left Chelsea, Luis Suarez at Liverpool, Leroy Sane at Man City, Ronaldo left Man Utd and of course, everyone and their uncle jumps ship at Arsenal at some point.
It is the nature of football, players leave, even Lionel Messi could leave Barcelona, you brush yourselves down and move on, simply because there is nothing else to do.
Tottenham have a good opportunity now, I would prefer Kane to stay but no point crying over his departure if that is what happens, better to look forward and hope the club get it right in the transfer market.
So, no need to panic at all, Tottenham will be just fine.
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The club has sold the likes of Dimitar Berbatov, Luka Modric, Michael Carrick, Christian Eriksen and so on and will lose top players in the future…. and strangely we haven’t won cups or topped the Premier League lately.
“Yeah but what has Levy ever done wrong apart from that?” 😂
Going to stick my neck out here and predict that Lloris is sacrificed to free up the armband for Kane, tempt him for another season to target Greavesie’s all time goals record, and throw in little bit of spending in the summer to show “ambition”…. will all depend on whoever Jose’s replacement is though.
I say Keep Calm and move on.
Leave it out Bruce. Who is going to replace him?? Haaland or Ings? It’s a tough call innit 🤔
Apart from that, everything otherwise OK?
I remember only too well the new stadiums and the resulting fiascos of Sheffield United and Wolverhampton Wanderers, who ended up in the fourth division!
Which wasn’t that far from being the case!
Yeah,”The Magnificent Seven!” One flat track bully and six mediocrities. All in all, an object lesson in how not to spend 150 million. La Ligue ramping up to sell us some more bargain (?) basement dross, perhaps? Levy’s favourite hunting ground!
Pretty much agreed that it’s the BEST that we will do; in fact, it could be that we return to the bottom half turning full circle under ENIC with just one league cup won on this journey. The team has been neglected for too long with the result that a much bigger rebuild is now required testing Hitchen’s talent (or should we perhaps say non talent?) to the limit.
You are joking Bruce.
I will call this version of Harry “the Mourinho model” but he is a *g genius. His goals and assists (or even non assists if Son hits the side netting/woodwork) are irreplaceable.
Should read Hitchen above. Apologies.
Problem is Kane is one of our very few standout players and his replacement has got to be sourced by that well known whizz of recruitment, Mr Hitchins! I feel a touch of the Baldinis coming on! “Another magnificent seven” in the offing. God preserve us!
Seriously?!
I would say it’s several chickens coming home to roost at the same time:
Kane said he would stay as long as we matched his ambition.
Son and other quality players look to him – if he stays, there’s a higher chance of them staying as well, and vice versa.
Levy didn’t back Poch and Jose, showing we wouldn’t match Kane’s ambition at all, instead building a superarena, where we were already beaten by such heavyweights as West Ham, Everton and Wolves
The Super League – seemingly Levy’s get out of debt free card – was a fiasco attracting an enormous amount of bad press.
We are in eye-watering debt, so it doesn’t seem we are going to be able to compete anytime soon. We’re lagging behind City, United, Chelsea, Liverpool and even Leicester.
Our succession management and overall recruitment has made the squad progressively weaker and less interesting. We have few genuinely quality players, we can’t get rid of deadwood, and we’ve managed to downgrade in just about every position, where a decent player left/grew old. Think Walker-Aurier-Doherty, Verts-Dier, Toby-Sanchez/Rodon, Dembele-Ndombele, Eriksen-Lo Celso (currently not really an upgrade), Dele-Dele’s brother etc. etc. – and that’s when we actually signed players, unlike the time we refused to sign anyone!
And that was afer firing Paul Mitchell who’s an expert recruiter, but not as much of an expert as Levy himself.
All of this is culminating in a lot of trouble for THFC. We can’t run from Levy’s failures forever. There are too many now to ignore.
I’d agree but the greatest project he took charge of was the stadium build which has left us where we are.
Truth is you can recover from bad transfer windows more easily than a stadium disaster.
By all accounts Levy is a decent guy polite but clearly a micro manager who believes he knows best. I have a friend whose daughter applied for a job there she’d done a similar job at another very big club and was told to give it a wide berth by someone with knowledge
dream on
Sky showed all the players who have left and gone on to achieve trophy success, jaw dropping !
The last sentence is the crucial part of what the club has to do imo.
You are forgetting Pav, who I loved.
He can’t defend like so many FB’s these days.
You cannot replace goals, and that’s the difference Kane has and delivers.
The thing with Liverpool is that they had a really good team but needed a leader CB and great gk which is what they got with Coutinho money whereas without HK/Son what is there ?
I have no particular problem with Levy as chairman, in private life he is supposed to be a decent chap, but the old saying that the cobbler should stick to his last applies.
Take care of business Daniel but leave the football to the people who know their job.
Well he has form, he told the world and Poch that the transfer budget would not be affected by the stadium build.
The only way that statement could have been true is that there was no transfer budget to begin with.
Well this is where I have some sympathy with Levy. If I remember right Levy used Franco Baldini as his DOF to bring in the not so magnificent seven.
I think that experience has affected his transfer decision making since. He basically trusts no one after getting his fingers burned.
He got rid off a quality talent spotter in Paul Mitchel and deliberately brought in a second rate yes man in Steve Hitchout.
The Levy-Hitchen dreamteam to the rescue. God help us.
Sané at Man City 😂
Hitchen is utterly incompetent- the fella wouldn’t recognize talent of it kicked him in the arse
If you take Harry goals and assists out we’d be pretty much bottom 6 maybe lower. When he missed three games earlier this season we got no points at all. I don’t think you can underestimate how much the team find it easier to play when he is in the team
Why should anyone trust Levy to wisely invest in replacement players if he sells Kane? Look at the dogs arse he made of the Bale money! Spurs are so cash strapped right now I see him using the money to pay down the stadium debt and continue to tread water in football and look to maximize ENIC Profits from the NFL and concerts. I personally think we’re f__ked
Well if he were to pocket the money for rebuilding the clubs finances, which by the way he f.caked, I would suspect there would be poll tax like demonstrations in N17
Did not go great when he was injured this year who going to fill Harry boots.
Yeah this is exactly my concern. We already need 2 CB’s and a RB as a minimum.
Add to that a striker that can find the net at least 20 times a season.
Levy will be too tempted to use the Kane money to get all of the above using second rate players.
You’re overpaid you don’t need one 🙂
If you got a cl medal or a premiership medal in there yes. He will have seen all decent players who have left winning things even tripper well almost one game to go. I don’t blame Harry I would too. Spurs are in crap order. We can’t repay the government debt no finals finishing outside top 5 now can you blame him. Don’t forget ndombele Madrid were linked a week or so back thats a lot of players looking to leave or need to leave I reckon.
I’m getting a bonus?
The big worry for me is that like the Bale splurge we will bring in too many names most of whom need googling a la Danny Rose.
I’d rather a couple of top quality signings than a gaggle of ordinary players that may or may not adapt and work out.
Trouble is the defence needs rebuilding as well. Levy is going to have to step up this summer or risk losing the few supporters he has left. It will be an interesting time.
Funnily enough it was.
It’s an interesting point Bruce, when Liverpool sold Coutinho for £110m they added £40m to their kitty and bought Allison & VVD signings that were a complete game-changer for them. However Levy is likely to either trouser half the Kane fee or it will be quantity over quality with a scatter gun approach similar to the Bale money.
Some money will need to found to pay Daniel his bonus
It’s honestly a mess of a squad. We haven’t churned it enough.
Only outgoing last year was KWP…..which in hindsight looks like a mistake, would probably be our most solid RB at the moment.
In total agreement with you here Mikey. Have no faith that the money would be reinvested wisely either (or at all).
A sensible chairman would appoint Rodgers and tell him he has £150m plus whatever else he makes from player sales.
But that’s what a sensible chairman would do.
What is key is recruitment.. Which has been failing to deliver.. Without Kane we are immediately a mid table team… With Kane right now we are only just a top 6 or 7.. I have no faith in Hitchen or Levy to spend the money wisely.
Son could force it and we could end up with a eriksen on our hands and like I say 29 so the money starts going down now. Levy will also know that. I said earlier in the year this window could be our biggest yet. What about Hugo not to mention the three amigos at the back Toby, dier and sanchez. Then aurier and Doherty. Does Jose come for holjberj. Lamela, winks and sissoko all pants. That’s a new team.
He is made out to be this great business man. The clubs valuation has not rocketed due to his astute business sense although I suspect his control of costs has in fairness contributed but due to the almost obscene increase in domestic and international broadcasting rights.
However putting a guy with a land management degree 🤦♂️In charge of a huge infrastructure project was just bizzare.
I agree the recruitment is and will be scattergun. I wonder how Spurs fans in the main would react if we did another “magnificent 7”, to my mind, this is the most disengaged I have ever seen our fans.
Not sure it can get much lower.
Haha the only player that has kept Spurs in the top half of the table is leaving but we can manage without him – really?
Personally, I wouldn’t be massively upset to lose him but I don’t think he goes this summer at all.
Levy with his business head on could not allow his 2 biggest players to leave in the same window as it damages the “brand” too much, not to mention the additional exposure Son gives us to the Asian market.
Won’t happen in my opinion.
Yes, it’s not just Kane’s goals, he sets up just as many. With no finances to get real quality replacement even with his fee, this is going to get ugly. And soon.
Very different now. A long way down the ENIC rot line, Kane has kept this team afloat, the future is bleak. Off the pitch neglect and debt is unprecedented, there’s only one direction ENIC fc are going…
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I have never seen Levy make so many mistakes in such a short space of time.
It will be B”S whatever he says.
We are screwed. No champions league or premier league challenge for 5 years at least. And every potential manager or player signing will have well and truly learnt the lesson that has been taught. We will be finishing 5th to 8th for the next 5 years at least. I hope I am wrong, but this is what I expect.
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He’ll be in a Man City shirt shortly.
Let’s see what succession management magic the Chuckle Brothers serve up this time. This will be made all the more interesting by the fact Kane is our top scorer AND our top assist provider. I’m not sure, but Son is probably second in both aspects. If both of them leave…
Dan I can’t even see him spending that much, the clue is in the statement released last week debt and finance were the main concerns. Not rebuilding the team. Their recruitment is scattergun, for every Son there are four absolute duds. Levy is not going to change we need to face facts.
Son not signed that contract yet and will know without one of the best players in the world no chance of top six never mind winning anything. Son has been poor by his standards since Christmas without kane to help and knowing of interest in son from other teams and he is 29 coming why stay.
I thought Harry Kane was in our hearts?
I think Modric left the season before Bale as well, so his best personal season with us was without Luka.
My main point is, teams rebuild, no player is bigger than the club and Harry deserves his move.
Everyone is talking about how Spurs have to get this managerial appointment right….they now also have to get the squad rebuild right with the Kane money.
Sound perverse but the club does need to sell kane for top whack. The squad needs an over haul, it’s past an end of a cycle.
Kane funds us doing that (unfortunately).
Biggest concern who’s incharge of spending that money as we wazzed the Bale money up the wall when we got it. But 120m on 3 players may mean the team is in a better place.
then see what we can get for selling off winks, lamella, aurier and sissoko and that might be another.
Then a better value loan than Bale (or a free).
Net changes to transfers and wages zero.
Time to all play football manager.
The king is dead long live the king.
Why would a leopard change his spots?
He’s seriously injury prone and that has cost us in previous years. If we can share his goal/assist tally around 3 or 4 new additions and overhaul the defence I can see us doing better than the last 2 season. All depends on the new manager and the recruitment strategy but unfortunately Levy and Hitchen have serious historical failings in these departments and this could cost us once again.
Bale had Modric, Dawson, a lively Ekotto, walker, Parker etc.. Not too shabby and certainly no worse than the current group. Also the environment seemed a lot less toxic than it does now. But I take your point
Yes! Completely agree.
I worry that if Levy gets £150m for example, only £100m will be invested in the squad. We then have to replace (or try to) the goals Kane brings plus also buy 2 CB’s a RB and maybe a CM.
Bale money all over again. What’s Chiriches up to?
Nobody is panicking. Most fans knew Harry was leaving, they just didn’t know the date.
What worries me is that without major change in scouting and recruitment we will simply repeat the mistakes of the past.
The focus of Daniel Levy might be on dealing with the financial crisis created by Covid and repairing the clubs finances.
To do that could mean income will be diverted from transfer spending.
You also mention Chelsea, City, United, Liverpool losing star players, unfortunately Bruce you’re not comparing like with like. City and Liverpool have multiple star players they could lose three and it would make little difference as they would replace them and their squads are stronger to begin with.
Spurs don’t have multiple star players and we are clearly overly dependent on Harry Kane. Cue the panic every time he is injured.
Why does losing Kane mean we will lose Son?
Also hasn’t set Bayern alight either
Sane is a stretch. Barely featured for City
It’s a fair point but we were even more of a one man team when we had Bale. The amount of 1-0’s and winning goals Bale contributed was mad. Yet after he left we arguably had our best period as a club.
Not really, son and kane are world class and they’ve dragged this mish mash group of players to where we’ll eventually end up. Nobody comes close to kane or could achieve his stat’s while surrounded by those other donkeys
This pep talk is music to ENICs ears. It’s the exact mantra they want peddled out as it’s what they have lived on for the past 20yrs
I get this point but one would assume we would still have some of those points as we would have a different striker,
Well…..as long as Steve ‘I hate transfer windows’ Hitchins and Daniel Levy aren’t deciding who to sign then we might be okay (keeping in mind that losing Kane means we will probably lose Son as well), more than likely we’ll get a few ‘Plan B’ cheap alternatives to good players from the French and Dutch leagues……Ooooo they look good on paper but play like an injured Winks…
Deduct the goals scored by Kane this season and the points that came with them, then also consider the points gained from his assists to Son (who is I believe 4th on the goals ladder) that will leave you with where we would have been without Kane this season.
It is not the nature of football. It is the nature of THFC football under the ownership of ENIC. Top clubs do not continually sell their best players. They keep their best players and INVEST in additional world-class players as their desire is to be successful and be winners. That generates the income to keep those best players and serve their ambitions. We under ENIC are the antithesis of all of that.