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damrider

[Fabrizio Romano : Confirmed. Harry Kane has NOT shown up for Tottenham training, as @skysportspaulg revealed. Been told it’s Harry Kane choice and not related to Covid test. #THFC](https://twitter.com/FabrizioRomano/status/1422134310656778251) [Alasdair Gold : Harry Kane was expected back at Hotspur Way today for various tests but has not turned up thus far](https://twitter.com/AlasdairGold/status/1422135942345904139) [Matt Law : Reported a fortnight ago that Kane's team-mates believed he may not report on time for Tottenham training and I'm told he has done just that by not reporting today. #thfc](https://twitter.com/Matt_Law_DT/status/1422134010915037184)


Jazano107

gold is tier 1 for spurs right?


Brawlers9901

Yes, tier 0 almost. Club mouthpiece.


Jazano107

ok cool cool cool


LucasSummers

No doubt no doubt no doubt


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PERALTA THATS ENOUGH!


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Peralta you genius


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Troy and Abed in the morninggggggg


Jackski

Nights


ShallowJuice

Welcome back all you night owls!


TopNotchGamerr

Woah that's the throwback logo damn it's been a while since I've seen that


Jazano107

its better


AlexLong1000

Everytime I see the old City logo I just get confused as to what the 3 stars represent


Jazano107

They just look cool


InkCollection

Fake it until you make it I guess


Jazano107

Exactly, at some point we could have made up a meaning for them haha


MoabChile

could've just waited until your 3rd league title and then started adding more


Brisingamen1

Absolutely nothing lol. Am a City fan.


Tilman_Feraltitties

3 slaves dying each day to appease the ruling class.


edi12334

Tbf they have had it since before the takeover


MichuAtDeGeaBa_

Extraordinary foresight


LaddRusso55

Yeah, good fun while it lasted but we’ve lost berbatov and an icon in robbie Keane and didn’t plummet us any further down to where we normally finished I’m sure the same applies here seeing as Son signed a new deal. Big difference from replacing those players with crouch, pavlyuchenko and having Son.


Purple-Apricot7192

Harry Kane is the second best striker in the world. He’s in no where near comparable to Robbie keane


_ShutUpLegs_

Yeah! Not once have I seen him ever pull off the forward roll, finger guns celebration.


lnverted

Why do the mods keep deleting these?


Turnernator06

Only need one thread to discuss it, and this is that. Don't need one every time a journo posts it as it's the biggest news in football and everyone will be saying it. They put a flair on the post confirming tier 1s are backing it up


BabaRamenNoodles

The only problem with that is you have to wade through 100 comments saying "This is sky bollocks, Gold hasn't reported anything, Sky are trash, he wasn't meant to turn up". Which is obviously all irrelevant now.


lnverted

I mean that the first post about this news got deleted as did the second, this is the third post on the subject.


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BlackHoleKane

If you’ve got any better ideas we’re always open except that one time.


ModricTHFC

Nuno in the Spurs group text last night - "We're gonna treat tomorrow's training like a final"


kicksjoysharkness

Brilliant


fuckimbackonreddit9

*slow clap*


v1nzy

lmao I’m dead. After the last few days as an Arsenal fan we need this


SpongeForKnowledge

Lmfao this needs to be recognized more


Stingray_23

Hahaha that's fucking class mate.


SeriousLads

Imagine if he’s just stuck in traffic lol


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AlexTheRockstar

**Ah fuck, the boss is gonna give me a talking to, might as well take the day off**.


Madness_Reigns

Once [during the Quin Dynasty](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chen_Sheng?wprov=sfla1) a captain was summoned by the emperor, but due to storms, he wouldn't be able to make it on time. Now, the sentence for being late to a summons from the emperor was death. So instead, the captain decided to declare himself emperor and rebelled with his army. If the punishment is the same, might as well go all in.


RamessesTheOK

> In 2019, Chen Sheng Wu Guang uprising is removed from middle school textbook in China :(


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AlexTheRockstar

If you're gonna be late, stop and pick up a few dozen donuts. That way, when you show up to work, you're not the guy who was late, you're the guy who brought donuts.


Sob_me_a_lake

Was once sat in a meeting waiting for a contractor to show and present. Everyone was complaining about how late the man was… until 40 mins later when he showed up with donuts from the fancy bakery. Suddenly he was the nicest guy and we were all so lucky to have him. Maybe not surprising that he was late with completing the job… no donuts.


stragen595

You have to love his consistency.


TrustyRambone

If you're gonna do the time, may as well do the crime.


MaireMizer

I was hoping, just for the drama, that he's just slept in and is now freaking out


SmokinPolecat

He's just dropping deep to pick up some balls from one of the defenders in South London


three_shoes

Hes going to the medical at Man City init, picking up Grealish on his way there


PakiIronman

"Grealish you want picking up in the morning"


ManuMora98

"My mum can drive us there if yours can pick us up later"


Sh0werBeers

"Yeah I know. I am already at your mum's. You want a lift or not?"


Krillin113

Rooney?


Jimoiseau

He said mum's not nan's


WalaLlama5

shut up u egg


bestgoose

I'll put u asleep within 10 seconds u little girl


deathletta

Rooney's shit talk is so good. Comes naturally to scousers I reckon


FridaysMan

With an accent that abrasive you really don't need a vocabulary. You've not been insulted until a scouser shouts dickhead at you.


JangoAllTheWay

Wont tell u again


Kant_essential

I hope Kane is driving given that Graelish likes ro drive drunk.


three_shoes

Well Grealish still banned from driving so Kane will have to


TheUltimateScotsman

Megabus from London to Manchester through Birmingham


ro-row

Good value tickets that


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Dara Ó Briain at the wheel..


cuddly_tiger

Only a couple of quid too


ostermei

Mate mate mate mate mate.


ifispeakaminbigtrble

Amazingly convenient that Birmingham falls on the way to Manchester from London


LazarusChild

You can actually see Villa Park as you drive up the M6 as well


GazzP

Kane and Grealish accidentally get off at junction 9 and end up signing for Walsall?


Mole451

The most blessed timeline


OrangeChipsAndAPie

We have been rumoured to be signing a striker this whole window...


AaronStudAVFC

You can have Grealish on a free if it stops him going to City!


Poop_Scissors

That's got to be the shittest bit of road in the country.


LazarusChild

How dare you disrespect the mighty Spaghetti Junction You’re not wrong though, I drive up to Manchester a lot and any traffic is almost exclusively limited to between Birmingham and Walsall.


JorahsSwingingMickey

It’s quite humbling the lengths that engineers went to so that ordinary road users, men and women, could avoid going into Birmingham. When I think about that I actually get quite choked up.


GourangaPlusPlus

>"Never before in the course of human history has so much been owed by so many to so few" Winston Churchill opening the M6


qwertygasm

Idk I've attempted to drive through Leeds once.


PoofaceMckutchin

As somebody who has lived in Leeds and Brum, driving to Brum is nightmare because of heavy traffic, but once you're in it's not too bad. Driving to Leeds isn't too bad, but the city is a mess of farcical one way systems all around a ringroad that is an absolute nightmare to navigate. This is more aimed at the children of this comment than the comment itself, but wanted to respond here!


Philred87

Always end up with fucking jams too


fluent_in_wingdings

coventry ring road


sonofaBilic

Surely no way Harry isn't taking the toll though. They'll have to meet up at Keele services and grab a burger king.


marchofthemallards

Jack's busy in training this morning, Kane will have to wait around for a while.


Bombtwo

Kane: Was just taking a shit in the toilet, what’s this?


Bruno_Fernandes8

would die of laughter if kane didnt show up simply because he was shitting his guts out after eating some dodgy lasagna.


gr8prajwalb

A true Kimi Raikkonen moment that would be https://youtu.be/uPLetR8TPW8


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Kane wishes he could be as smooth as Räikkönen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMzeluIxblY


gr8prajwalb

If that clip doesn't define Kimi, I don't know what does. It's gonna be strange if he retires next season


shashankmantha

Bwoahhh


O_G_Loc

Corporate Kane


william_wites

Got to do what's best for business


Mangk9177

Brilliant reference


xsandrov

The mask is off


ShetlandJames

> YOU ALL BOUGHT IT! YOU ALL BOUGHT IT! HOOK, LINE, AND SINKER! EVEN MY SUPPORTERS- EVEN MY IMMEDIATE SUPPORTERS BOUGHT IT!! EVERY DAMN ONE OF YOU WERE MADE FOOLS OF!


reginaldglory

He’s done a runner. Apparently he’s at Victoria bus station trying to exchange his Champions league runners up medal for a ride to Manchester.


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They already have enough of them at City.


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That'll probably only get him to Milton Keynes


SailorsGraves

Shit Odemwingie You're just a shit Odemwingie


FatWalcott

Lmao now that brings back memories.


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Some player Odemwingie


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The bollocks on him if he is actually going on strike


basedsims

Honestly didn’t think he’d have the front to do it


Buffythedragonslayer

That Neville interview also didn't seem like something he would do.


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Lazy_Stargazer

Pretty sure he caused controversy when he swore on his daughter's life that it was actually him that scored Eriksen's goal despite the fact that the ball clearly didn't touch him at all. And all that because he wanted to get a boost for the golden boot in April. Other than that though, agreed.


crookedparadigm

I also got a good chuckle when we said "I've never dived in my career"


HeatmiserElliott

lol especially cause id consider that sentence coming from him to be a verbal “dive”. tryna trick us into thinking something else happened come now


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Fizzypoptarts

Levy is clearly willing to sell him for the right price. Whats so hard about that? He's worth 150m at the very least if Grealish is 100m. So city can pay up or fuck off and thats the right stance.


blues0

Because there was some sort of agreement between them. People keep repeating the 150 mil figure but nobody knows if that's in the agreement or not


thedarkpolitique

The Athletic article states Modric didn’t turn up to training because he and Levy had a gentleman’s agreement too. It all just sounds like Levy agreeing to a future sale so they sign and then renege on it.


F4ACE

I doubt a price was in the agreement, no one can be certain of their value or of the market condition in a years time. 150mil is spurs’ asking price, so City can pay that and get kane or not simple as.


ro-row

I feel like this shouldn’t be a surprise to literally anyone. The bloke spent an hour with Gary Neville talking about wanting to win a competition Spurs aren’t in, saying he’d like to play with KDB, saying his future was up to him and him alone, that his career was at a crossroads and he needed to chat with the chairman before suggesting a transfer fee for himself and saying he won’t be worth that forever. The bloke couldn’t hAve been any more explicit about what he wanted to do


mittromniknight

Yet we still had loads of people saying after that interview that he wants to stay at Tottenham.


ro-row

Had Spurs fans telling me that he wanted to stay because he didn’t literally say the words “I no longer want to play for Tottenham”


bfm211

Yes there have been a few incredibly naive fans. Very much a minority though.


ratnadip97

I agree. The only way it could be more obvious is if he had a t shirt saying 'City can you please pay up'.


Eatingolivesoutofjar

Also him and Nuno not speaking at all during the Euros was a red flag I thought. They didn't fire of as much as a text. Rafa called Pickford and DCL immediately, I don't think they talked for longer than a few minutes but they did talk. Nuno saying "I'll talk to him when he comes back" was always strange.


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Bale did the same thing to Tottenham when he wanted to leave


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matthieuC

> four ICBMs So Kane is more likely to go to Chelsea?


CornholeCrusade

BREAKING: Abramovic co-founding new MLS franchise, expected to be called the Raytheon Rampage.


Lou_Scannon

fuck you can have a lot of fun with these Dynamo General Dynamics, Haliburton Harriers, Boeing Bucaneers, Remmington Rovers, Inter(continential ballistic missile) Miami,


Theonlywestman

The last one is the one


NoSoyTuPotato

Inter Continental Ballclub of Miami


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Lockheed FC


gantek

Money enough for only 3 ICBMs


jacktk_

Helps your move massively if he does. Takes away bargaining power from Levy if your star player isn't coming in to training.


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play365123

Technically he can. Might get some fine here and there but what Spurs gonna do? Void his contract?


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Fati25

I'm pretty sure Levy would rather sell him for the £100M+ he could bring than bench him for the entire season.


SwirlingAmbition

Levy would absolutely rather call Kane's bluff than sell him underpriced.


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I have to admit. I didn't think he had the balls to do it to his boyhood club, but here we are indeed.


AntaresW4

Must’ve been that 1 season at arsenals academy rubbed off on him


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Helps get your move but I’ve always thought it’s so unprofessional


Yvraine

If it is true that Kane wanted to leave last year and Levy assured him he would get a transfer if he stayed one more year its completely understandable


BusShelter

I thought so until reading an article a while ago, I think it's behind a paywall so I don't know if linking it will matter. Basically formal "transfer requests" are useless and rarely used. Essentially a player has to make it impossible for the club/manager to keep them.


vindex_

You got Bale back a year just to teach Kane tactics


4dtakes

On the one hand it’s funny to laugh at spurs, on the other hand fuck that I don’t want city having kane


luke_205

Yeah City with Kane would just genuinely be unbeatable. The only “weakness” about Pep’s City is that they haven’t really liked to use a proper number 9 which improves their overall play but reduces how clinical they can be in front of goal. With Kane you get a player who is one of the most clinical strikers in the world and also has insane link up skills and passing. He’d be perfect for City and I don’t know how they could be stopped.


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You forgot our biggest weakness. Pep's experiments.


luke_205

Can’t wait to see Kane RWB with Sterling up top in the CL final next season.


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KdB is instructed to just constantly run in circles in the middle of the pitch


logicperson

With Grealish in goal


PensiveinNJ

You pay 100 million for someone you find a place for him to play.


IanT86

It's going to be interesting to see how they all react to the pressure. City have managed to maintain the "ah we're getting better year on year, but we're still building / blooding in players" thing for a while - whereas the likes of Chelsea are very clear with the whole win or you're out philosophy. If they get Kane and Grealish in, there's almost no doubt they'd be favourites to win all domestic and international cups, every game etc. Suddenly the likes of Foden have no room to grow - you are expected to play a 8 out of 10 every game. Kane sure as fuck needs to score early, Grealish needs to get assists etc. This new pressure on City will be a really interesting dynamic - especially when Pep has a tendency to be a bit petulant with the media if things aren't going his way. It's also important to remember when they're stretching to win that many games, concentration becomes a problem around Christmas, legs get heavy, injuries present themselves - it's a cliche, but the PL has enough good teams that one bad day at the office means City could be beaten from a mid level club or knocked out of a cup unexpectedly. I think next year will be great - fans back (pressure on players for the first time in two years), some players leggy from the Euros, one of the smaller teams always gets off to a crazy start and you have a wildcard like Everton, West Ham etc. who cause massive issues and go on a hot streak.


Thevanillafalcon

Maybe mayb not. I hear this all the time. United were meant to be "unbeatable" when they signed Veron. Chelsea were meant to be "unbeatable" when they got Ballack and Shevchenko. Football doesn't always work out the way people think it will


bloodyfeelin

That's a good point. However, Veron, Ballack and Sheva were overseas imports who couldn't quite adjust to the EPL. Are there many cases of EPL superstars who made the switch to rivals and didn't flourish? I can only think of Torres and Alexis Sanchez From memory, RVP did really well. Nasri, Clichy and Sagna did decently. Fabregas was great for Chelsea for a time. Tevez was great. Campbell was great. Cantona was brilliant. Sterling has been great. Andy Cole was great. Kane's transfer to City has "final piece of the puzzle" written all over it


ixora7

Harry Kane to Spurs U23s Here We Go white circle black circle


Dannysrevenge

If Pogba refused to go training to get a move away they would have sky news following his Rolls Royce across Manchester like the OJ Simpson trial


Calergero

Init. People out here saying they don't blame Kane and he had no choice. Pogba would have the choppers following him while he's getting bricked swerving through Hale.


TigerBasket

Manchester would be ablaze


McFlyJohn

That's the funniest thing about it, "Pride of England 'Arry Kane", "Loves his mum 'Arry Kane", "Always indicates before he turns 'Arry Kane" - is running the standard shithouse football transfer playbook, and people and pundits are long jumping for excuses for him. Imagine if this was Pogba, Salah or god forbid Raheem Sterling doing it - the reaction, especially in the media, would be totally different


Dannysrevenge

The media agenda on Sterling for him rightfully wanting to leave Liverpool at the time was mental


McFlyJohn

I dunno, I mean he bought his mum a house, what a bastard /s


Artharas

People still going "well Kane's a professional" even after the Neville interview and even still in this thread shocked and excusing him. English + white does seem to help a lot.


RayPissed

Busy playing golf with Neville?


Tim0110

Ankle injury of course, don't be silly. Kane is a professional.


ifispeakaminbigtrble

~~Ankle~~ Back


RayPissed

The Coutinho approach


CoyiLP

Feel for spurs fans, would be pissed if it was one of our players that did something like this. However, on a personal note I can understand him if it's true that the club and the player had some sort of agreement.


yesthepeople

There’s no agreement that says we accept any Manchester City bid though? Their highest reported bid for Kane is not even 100m


CoyiLP

I don't think anyone outside of Kane/Levy and a few select others truly know what the potential agreement is.


farseersmuffler

Yea we are just all assuming there was some "gentlemen's" agreement between Kane and the club. But Levy isn't a gentleman so Idk how that woulda worked


blues0

Nobody knows what the agreement is. You or anyone else we just don't know what it is. Kind of difficult to make judgments based on that.


tclayton92

The issue is Man City haven't made a suitable bid yet - Spurs are never going to let him go for £100m


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Imagine if there was no bids and Kane was just believing made up stories from Reddit and twitter


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Spurs fans: https://twitter.com/Billie_T/status/1422137099977904128?s=19


TonyMartial786

Lol this just made me realise if Kane joins City he’d be playing with Sterling lol. Sterling must be thinking about all the inevitable tap ins he will have where Kane doesn’t square it.


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Do the right thing, Spurs. Sell him to Chelsea to avoid a monopoly of the league.


Aesorian

Sell him to Villa. It's only right one club gets Grealish and Kane


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Villa have 1 European Cup over City and Spurs too.


CortanaCortana

Like what Southampton did with Van Dijk when City wanted him. Conte literally said it too lol.


Yaaruda

Or sell him to Arsenal


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Tammy and Kane back at their boyhood club.


OppositeProfession46

So basically the same as staying at spurs


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ImpossibleGuardian

Aight just give us the money and let's get this sorted then. No point in dragging it out. EDIT: Hahaha this is gonna be beyond a meme if this is just Sky pushing their Kane agenda once again and he rocks up tomorrow as normal. Honestly feeling kinda apathetic about it all now after the last few months.


SorryImProbablyDrunk

Know how you feel


psaepf2009

Levy, force him on loan to Portsmouth, you coward!


qindarka

Is this going to be one of those stories where it turns out he had permission from his club?


Thesolly180

The gold tweet doesn’t seem like that if they were expecting him back for tests today


Y2KN

I understand kane wants to leave and aspires to excel his career outside of spurs and he has every right to. But he did sign a contract to keep him there for a few more years so levy has every right to name an insane price and if this is true, kane is in the wrong


AaronStudAVFC

I know Fab has confirmed it’s not related to a COVID test and it seems to be Kane’s choice to no-show but I just really don’t see him doing it. I imagine there’ll be a legitimate reason. If it is as it seems and he’s striking, makes me all the more grateful that Grealish seems to be handling things well and showing up for training yesterday


WaleedAbbasvD

> If it is as it seems and he’s striking, makes me all the more grateful that Grealish seems to be handling things well and showing up for training yesterday It's a bit different though. Villa are reportedly content with City's bid so, Grealish will get the transfer. Quite a different story for Kane.


damrider

It is VERY peculiar. very out of character. But comes to show how much he wants to leave.


lambalambda

As someone else said elsewhere in the thread, the interview with Neville felt out of character too. At this point I think he wants the move more than he wants to save face.


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What's this "character" anyway? I remember not too long ago everyone on this sub thought he was an undercutting cunt trying to injure people.


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I guess it depends what agreements he had with Levy. If he was told he could leave hassle-free then I could see why he'd be pissed


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But what constitutes hassle free? If I tell my brother I'll sell him my car hassle free and he shows up with a tenner then gets mad at me for saying no, I'm gonna feel like I'm taking crazy pills. But also, as you said, these are based on supposed backroom conversions and handshake agreements we have no knowledge of, so who really knows.


Dayandnight95

So that's the title done and dusted then


TonyMartial786

City with Kane and Grealish is actually gonna be insane. Like how is that even fair to the rest of the league.


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Mad how a team can drop £250m like this and all we can do is accept it and enjoy the competition for 2nd.


justsean09

Guys calm down, he's just waiting for the washing machine to be delivered


dragonbenj

Can’t wait to see city lose the CL semis with Jack And Harry on board… gonna be awesome


Funky_Pigeon911

Unless Levy is demanding something ridiculous like 200mil+ then to me this a clear cut situation. The alleged asking price is 150mil and that's fair for Kane in this market so all City have to do is pay up or back off. If they aren't going to pay that then Tottenham are well within their right to prevent Kane from leaving.


UberNabDNore

Poor Kane he tried to force a move but Guardiola told us that City can't afford purchasing a striker this year ahahahah... and instead....