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catcherintherye said:
I think what is interesting is, for all of the talk of our awful season, we are level with Spurs. There is now growing talk of quite a big spend come the summer. I look at Spurs and think they are the biggest one man team going as well. I know Son is good, but he scored 4 in 1 game at Southampton early on, and after that has had a relatively quiet season.

Kane's goals have won them 10 points, if you factor in his goals and assists that is 21 points. If you remove each of those it has Spurs in 12th and 17th respectively. If you work to the premise thatm a replacement coud get half the goals/assists he did and therefore 1/2 the points back (so they lose 5/10 points) they drop down to 11th/12th place. We have seen this season it takes a long way to claw yourselves back from this.

To contradict myself slightly, I do think the big worry for Spurs in all of this is that they price hikm out of a move asking for 100m+. He is left unhappy and inevitably his output drops a bit and the squad are also left unhappy. You get the sense he's played out of his skin this year and through injury to carry them, but not sure how long he will keep doing either for.
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It's a well known truism that if someone wants to go, then it's probably better to let them go and try and make the best deal of it rather than try and keep someone who is unhappy. I cannot see him staying but you never know, a decent offer would have to be very tempting for Spurs though,
 

Even if they threw 70m at trying to poach Lukaku to replace Kane, think he’d reject the move.
Just win the league, CL footy next season, why leave Inter and trophies for Spurs.
No chance, it’s Ings simple as that.
 
brieverton said:
Daniel Levy has an air of dead man walking there. I'm sure he doesn't need the money anymore. It might pose problems as he is going to be selecting the new manager almost single-handedly I'd imagine. If Kane goes, and Levy follows, then any new manager could soon find themselves working with a person for whom he isn't their man.

Last nights antics in asking the fans to sit high up in the stands was just another stupid and ridiculous call. They really seem to have lost their way. I suspect as well that they'd really rather not qualify for the Conference League, and I expect them to lose on Sunday. If that happens and Arsenal finish ahead of them, then they really have "Everton'd that" this season.
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Yes thats true. They look a side to me on a real slide. Some of Levy's comments about sopending lots of money, tend to indicate to me a club who is not going to want to do so again. I think they are on the slide and honestly I wouldn't be surprised if we were well ahead of them next season.

The question with all of these things is how far can the slide go? I don't think they've hit rock bottom yet, and sense that could be still to come for them.
 

catcherintherye said:
Yes thats true. They look a side to me on a real slide. Some of Levy's comments about sopending lots of money, tend to indicate to me a club who is not going to want to do so again. I think they are on the slide and honestly I wouldn't be surprised if we were well ahead of them next season.

The question with all of these things is how far can the slide go? I don't think they've hit rock bottom yet, and sense that could be still to come for them.
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Id rather be where we are than where they are at the moment. The key will be the Kane deal. If they sell him for good money and let a good new manager but quality they could keep themselves where they are for a while. If they waste the money or get a poor manager in then it could be a bad period for them as cash seems tight with the new stadium and they don’t seem to have another Kane or Alli coming through to rescue them.
 

RomanReigns said:
Spurs were champions league finalists like 3 years ago and now are level on points with us ....

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That 2019 final was a sliding doors moment for both teams.

Spurs win and they’d have been a European Cup winning club (also completed the European trophy set), would have won a trophy in every decade from the 1950s to the 2010s, won the European Cup before Arsenal (also Spurs fans could arguably call themselves a bigger club), Harry Kane and co. would have a CL medal (so no need to look elsewhere), Poch a lauded winner (now a club legend) would still be in charge, Levy would be adored for taking the club to the top, and there’d be no more “Spursy” label, or “flaky” Spurs, or “its only Spurs” (coined by Fergie). Of course they could still win it in the future, but they’d be a different club right now had they won that 90 minute game of football.

And with the RS losing, that would have been back to back CL final defeats, and in a season where you get 97 points and don’t win the league. That would have killed them off. It would have broken Klopp and the players. You don’t come back from doing all that and have nothing to show for it.

I didn’t watch that final live (can’t put myself through watching the RS in a final) but having seen bits since Spurs dominated the last 25 minutes but just couldn’t get the goal. Had they equalised I’m convinced they’d have won as they were on the ascendency. The winning goal was scored by Origi because had the RS not scored that Spurs were getting an equaliser with that late onslaught.
 
That interview Kane did that is doing the rounds now with Gary Neville where he talks about wanting to leave was actually recorded last week.

Sky finally get a a legit "Sky sources" exclusive story instead of getting an exclusive hours after the big story was broken somewhere else.
 

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