Summer is almost here and the transfer gossip is going up a gear and it will get a whole lot worse from next week onwards when the transfer window officially opens up.
We all know about Harry Kane and him supposedly wanting to leave the Tottenham Stadium (He has not officially said he wants to leave) and we all know that only a few clubs can afford him.
The favourites for his signature at this minute in time is Man City but they do not spend PSG or Real Madrid money on a single player, they are more clever than that, they spend £60 million on a number of players as opposed to £200 million on a lone individual.
So, would they break the bank and hand over £150-£200 million to Daniel Levy for Kane, I don’t think so.
But I could see them offering a fee in the region of £60 million plus a couple of quality players.
The players I have in mind are Riyad Mahrez and Raheem Sterling. I suggest those two because the latest rumours are that City is open to offers for the pair as reported by the likes of TalkSport.
Now, I have no idea whether these rumours are true, in fact, I have no real idea if Kane wants to really leave or if Mauricio Pochettino is returning, it is all guesswork right now depending on what particular piece of speculation you believe.
But for the purpose of this article, let’s assume for a minute that City is preparing to allow Sterling and Mahrez to leave and that Pep Guardiola is indeed keen on signing Kane.
So, Sterling, Mahrez and £60 million for Kane – is that a deal you would find acceptable?
More importantly, would it be acceptable to Daniel Levy?
Fancy an unknown Frenchman. We have form there.
Spot on.
Until that is done he is a Spur. I got u though. There still that pesky wage. He might be looking for an uptick in wages. Sergio Requilon was in a similar spot, yet be return to Madrid then sold
If we’re playing fantasy football, Wouldn’t Stones rather than Sterling be of of a benefit, the change gets you Watkins and Ings? The other outs for another Centre back.
Foyth will stay at Villareal in Champions League, as they only need to pay £15m (€?) to keep him apparently, so surely a done deal.
Let me throw a dime you all way. Juan Foythe will be back and be our right back or slot in as a late game defensive mid went he returns to the club. The experience he got on loan and he also will be the the Argentina national team must not be discounted. Skipp will help next to PEH and houston we have a problem. Tanguy and Gio will be fighting for the other mid spot. What that means, Ali, Gio and Tanguy will be fighting for that #10 spot while we neither have a true #8 or #10. The team needs a personel over-all and even though our defense is not good, not having a fluid midfield trio with the emphasis on creativity coming from the 8 or 10 spot becomes more worrying than fixing a shaky defense. The reason is, if teams are not put under pressure going forward, we become twice as vulnerable and expose if said players are not good enough to be the first line of defense. We just could not contain, not defend, contain any team from getting to our backline with relative ease. Need to look no further than our ropey kO game.
You take that back!
The worst I recall was the German keeper, Schumaker I think, who completely cleaned out a French player who’s name escapes me, many years ago now, which also went unpunished.
The rejigging of the money is largely irrelevant in respect of the actual football. All Levy has done is delayed the repayment of a Covid loan from the BoE.
Not for spends as your mother might have said.
You’re right, like Ramos doing Salah. Because all normal tackles are so heavily policed now, this disguised thuggery, ie a reckless follow through is creeping in. Needs outlawed.
You sound like Levy now.
Probably another loan at easier interest rate and a longer term to pay back, used to pay the Treasury loan off.
Not that many clubs who could afford £100+ in cash right now… but Man City are probably one of those that can.
Maybe out of Euros. He was Ramosed Like Salah.
Levy is waiting for poundland to open!!!! 🙂
De Bruyne has a broken eye socket and nose following the purely accidental collision with Rudiger who is not only a liar but a thug as well.
Yes I did read the article and a little confusing if you are into all that stuff. Seems our stadium has now hit just over the billion mark through selling or converting something or another so we can pay back the government loan. What it does seem to suggest there will be no more money other than what we had because of it for transfers.
Fair enough, forgot the details.
Levy as other posters have said will want cash. There is a report elsewhere that Spurs have raised £275 million in some sort of high finance deal.
That £175 million has to be paid back next March.
They’d have to take a big pay cut so unlikely, swaps are just too hard to pull off.
I’d like to see us sign young, hungry players, like Jack Harrison. He won’t be part of City’s plans next season. Not a replacement for Kane but we will be moving on a load of player this summer. Lamela and BeerWine for starters. Harrison is much better.
Just like when Neville suggested we take James, Lingard, Martial for Kane. Why the hell would we take some average, inconsistent attackers for the best striker in the PL?
They still seem to think we are a small club Utd and City can bully. Either pay up, or give us Dias/Laporte + cash at least. Struggle to think who I’d want from Utd – maybe Bruno, even though he’s a massive cheat.
There’s no point swapping Kane for two players in positions we’re already fairly strong in. Far more likely would be Ake and Jesus as some blogs have suggested, filling gaps rather than collecting players.
I hope he doesn’t rarely scores the goals he should do with a team that create so many chances as citeh do. Why would we want their fringe players ??
No, Frazier Campbell was a loan extracted by Levy from SAF to save him having to buy a replacement for Berbatov. Levy got his full asking price on Berba.
I have read many of your posts in the past and I can say. We got a first here. You actual make sense. The writer could cut and past your comment in his blog, but then again, it would make too much sense, his point of the blog would have been mooted and you wouldn’t finally write something I could give a thumb’s up. (I just hope you have a sense of humor to boot )
Laporte would be good.
That was a loan just to make sure we had a striker given how late in the window it was…. not quite the same thing.
This senario should get the contempt it deserves, taking another clubs cast offs for your best player is weakness of the highest order.
What is the point of taking players who have no desire or interest in coming to the club, how does it look to everyone outside of Levy’s office ?
Whoever the players concerned are, I doubt they would see the situation as a good move, and the two named players are not what this club need, it’s not the way to do business, unless you want to be laughed at.
Indeed. Pep played into their hands cos Chelsea were set up to win it.
Yeah, they didn’t even defend like that when they were 7th or so in January. Zinchenko was a late change for Cancelo. He could see the run and just jogged and watched Havertz, and the keeper pulled his hands out?!! Mad. Wont complain, keeps the income topped up. Haha.
Just saw it, as I only caught a bit of the second half yesterday. That goal really does make me think sabotage.
If City pulled this sort of defensive shenanigans in the PL, it would be them in the Conference League, not us.
Agreed!!
Please no just when I’d forgotten him.
Cash is king especially in these Covid days.
Frazier Campbell?
Bamford is the same age as Kane.
No defensive midfielder against a counter attacking team and City playing a highline, what could possibly go wrong?
If anyone of them wants Kane , its £400
mill. We are not here to help them. They can help pay off the debt. Bamford is a young quality player. Ideal world, keep Kane & buy a new back four for starters
Have a look at the goal again….😉
A commentator said pretty much the same last night “Rudiger took a calculated decision” – but they didn’t even mention a possible red card?
Probably similar to Ramos on Salah some time ago – take a yellow but make sure the best player on the opposition team has to go off.
Depends on what you want to see, I guess. Guardiola has some form for tinkering in the CL (see last season when they were dumped out by Lyon). I’d say he’s in his head too much trying to outwit the other guy, but he only outwits himself in the end – this time even more so, as Chelsea beat them twice under Tuchel.
Does he do it so that City don’t win the CL on purpose? Honestly, I don’t think so.
That would be a disaster. Sterling ending up in a Lilywhite shirt would be the cherry on the cherry on the icing of this absolute sh$tcake. He is garbage.
On last night, ask this question. All season Pep Guardiola has used either Rodri or Fenandinho in the anchor role, someone mentioned 59 odd matches. It’s been a constant and a platform for their play…..so why in the CL final, the most important match of his season and perhaps his career would he change it?
Just like Pochs lads a few years ago they were there to lose.
Sterling is awful and expensive, Mahrez is old and expensive. No. Ruben Dias and Foden would be more like it.
It is telling to me that Guardiola is prepared to sell both players. Mahrez is thirty and inconsistent and Sterling is on £300,00o a week, so highly unlikely.
Am I the only spectator who thought that Rudiger should have received a red card for his premeditated assault on De Bruyne? I didn’t see a clash of heads, only in Rudiger’s and the referee’s imagination , I only saw Rudiger’s shoulder smash deliberately into De Bruyne’s faceOn the subject of the trnasfer market, Leicester have bought Soumare from Lille and are in talks with Ryan Bertrand, and Liverpool have bought Konate from RB Leipzig, having identified their weakness in CD. Two well run clubs who go about their transfer business quickly and with the minimum of fuss. Are you watching Levy and Hitchen? I doubt it.
aware this offer would never happen and Jesus wouldn’t come to us
no as neither player fixes our problems I’d take Ake and Jesus but even then we would need enough money to fix the position next to hojberg and probably another defender
Levy will accept cash only and not less than £150 million. There is no deal that I can recall where Levy has sold a player and accepted a player in return as part of the deal.
No. If Kane goes, we need a replacement that is as close as possible. Neither of these players are replacements.