Harry Kane ruins his own career

oof this is a FOUL from Sky Sports News😂

Dele Alli, relieved that he & Dier’s Gay Power Couple status is no longer under threat from Kane/Son:

Levy is a lot of things but thank god he is first and foremost a hardass petty bitch because he is going to rinse Kane for this. Can’t wait!

Dead at Grealish liking Harry’s muggy wormy non-apology statement...only him and three other people in all of football. Knowing Jack he didn’t or couldn’t read it, anyway.

For context, Danish player Christian Eriksen showed up on the first day to train, just a month after his close brush with death that was broadcast live to millions.

Harry Kane on the other hand did not bother to attend his first scheduled week of training, and will miss the first games with the squad he captains. Spursy of him.

Harry Kane is ugly and a diver. To summarize, he is an ugly diver.

R6 and for once GGG, every single Brit agrees with you.

It’s so hard to get my head around him going on strike from a cushy multi-million paying job where everyone treats him like a King...then when it goes down poorly, turning around and pretending that’s not what he did. Spurs fans are dragging him over the coals for this, as well they should.

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Pep: we don’t want Messi we don’t need Messi and anyway he’s too old now and too expensive the Sheikhs have spoken so best of luck to him at PSG Inner Pep: wtf no we want Messi I nEeD tO HAvE hIM while there’s still time let me buy him across with whatever funds we have left and no I have never heard of Barry Plane Kane:🕳

Unbelievably, Pep still wants him and is willing to front up £130m plus Silva. After the behaviour and class he’s shown, I wouldn’t pay £130 for him.

Roy Keane finally has something in football about which to be justifiably incensed, and I love that for him.

Becks was less overrated than this guy.

Kane did almost nothing for us in the Euros just gone—a handful of pragmatic goals that any other forward could have scored, that took him forever to get around to because he had the shakes in his giraffe legs. When defenders are banging them in the net as well as your top striker, there’s a problem.

As for his club performances; sure, he can put it in the net, but beyond that he doesn’t contribute much to general play or moral. He’s not a player with versatility, or a game-changer, or a play-maker. He’s the human personification of a full-stop, and everyone knows that in the 21st Century the full-stop is dying out.

He is so damn hot.

Definition of butters.

City only wanted Grealish so that they didn’t have to play against him in another team, and so they can potentially use Sterling as part payment for Kane.

It’s not so much 5D Chess or business acumen as it is plain old greedy corporate asset stripping, to slow down the growth and hobble the power of your competitors. From now, Man City will actually struggle to name a 25 man squad without leaving 60 million pound players unregistered.

It's everything that's wrong with the Premier league; speculative offers trying to unsettle players, and getting agents’ ears pricked up so they can cash in...

He is so unappealing looking. And a diver. He is tall, but gets thrown around like a leaf in the wind.

His mouth shape is gross looking! Yuck!

The fact that H is a Bieber stannie will never stop being funny to me

prepping a bid of £150 mill for kane but dont worry we’ll only really be paying £50mill bc we got £100mill from loaning out the rest of their players n selling players who havent left yet x

Can’t believe the first fixture Spurs have this season is vs. City. Someone has to be having a laugh booking that.

Imagine Harry on his line looking up to see Grealish opposite him cackling and grinning like a smug maniac. Kane will go off the deep end. Or he’ll just down tools right then and there, and refuse to play.

Levy isn’t letting Haz walk for £130m. No chance.

Gary Neville reckons Man United should be throwing their purse at Levy trying to sign Kane as well. This is such madness over an average balding white man pushing 30.

Pundits as well as fans are now turning their backs on Harry, calling him a liar.

How can Kane keep the England captaincy after this? We’re trying to win a World Cup here, and he’s playing politics.

Harry Kane's biggest problem is that his agent is his own brother. Charlie is an inexperienced clown who has always been disliked, not to mention that he lacks the credentials to go into negotiations with actual sharks.

Harry’s second-biggest problem is presuming on the fairness of Daniel Levy. Incredible that at this level of business, Harry believed that a handshake could hold up against binding contracts. Sancho had a similar ‘gentlemen’s agreement’ with Dortmund, except their owner isn’t a complete weasel and the team isn’t a juggernaut, and so at least an amicable deal could be brokered from that.

Man City fans at games now chanting 🎶Ha-rry Kane, he wants to be a Blue!🎶😂

last season Pep really called Spurs ‘the Kane team’ and offered Levy £150m to become the new ‘Kane team’ ONLY for City to go on and lose to Spurs the four times when Harry didn’t even play🚓

and he’s still a bald fraud

i love this game

What’s Gary Neville on Sky talking like he’s Harry’s new best mate for?

You coached Kane for a few months back in 2018 mate, calm down.

R17 His nose shape isn't doing him any favours either, now is it?

Good for Spurs at the moment, but they will likely be mid-table by Christmas and the traditionally slow-starting City will be near the top, probably with Kane.

R28 true. That’s the annoying thing about football pundits & fans—everyone gets carried away with the news of the week, and loses all sight of how patterns in the game tend to unfold in the same way year of year with only the occasional surprise or upset.

As GNev points out, if you put all the pieces together, Harry’s departure looks to be a done deal, and all the drama around it is just a way for Sky Sports & sports journos & YouTuber fan channels to get clicks.

And as far as the outrage about big money transfers goes—again, the entire industry has been debating this and complaining about it for at least five years, probably more like ten years at this point. There us no self-regulation in the hypercapitalist economy of the game. The Prem spending bubble has been inflating beyond control since Becks left for Spain tbh, and is set to burst sooner than later.

Nothing new under the sun, etc.

Kane is a Kunt..pure & simple

All football fans are twats - its a basic fact. There are the obvious racists, homophobes and bigots, then there are the pub-bores, the plastics, the miseries, the premiership entitled brigade and the bottom league 'real fans' losers. There are the endless, meaningless rivalries they drone on about - the local rival, the league rival, the international rival. All manifested in ludicrous hypocrisy that goes well beyond the extremes of parody - x is dirty, x dives, x is destroying the game and on and on, accompanied by outraged defence of their own equally guilty player, team, club. And the bantz 'n chants - God save us from the banality, mindlessness, spite and sheer unpleasantness of it all. The 'good humoured crowds' - yeah, only if you can't make out the words. They should all be taken out and shot and the pitches tarmacked over and turned into something more useful, like car parks or a Tesco's. There, I said it.

Ok, which fan hurt R31?

There’s no-one here denying that in many ways the modern game & industry has become a deeply sad and bleak joke, and that the fan culture of now can be so toxic that it becomes dangerous and ugly. As someone who has followed for decades, there’s much about current football I’d want to change or curb or reset, were i in charge and had I the power.

But what people like me stay for is the uniquely incredible feeling of knowing and loving and following a team, making friends and travelling on the way, and enjoying that collection be competitive spirit...there’s nothing else like it, and no other sport that offers the same intense buzz. It’s almost a metaphysically-Pagan experience of ritualised spectatorship (see, we fans aren’t all mouth-breathers....).

See, that’s the thing about football—when it’s bad, it’s horrid; and when it’s great, it’s fucking glorious. There’s a reason it has lasted this long and has grown into the juggernaut it is today.

R27 Mason Mount doesn’t have a great nose either. Lot of weird faces in the current England squad.

R33 TBH, don't mind Mount's nose;looks good in profile. It's more of the classic sexy or strong big nose. It really suits his face, whilst Kane's resembles a botched Rhinoplasty, or repeated injury.

Anyone else think he’s fucked Gareth Southgate to keep his place in the England team?

R35 I've always thought Southgate was sexy, and a little bit Bi. It's funny how his wife has talked about how he wasn't at all into girls until he met her. You may very well be onto something. Well, sounds like a nice fantasy nonetheless!

If you were a footballer, would you rather play for in a team in Manchester, Paris or Barcelona?

I am thinking Barcelona, but in Manchester the real estate situation is such that there is room for a house and a pool as opposed to an apartment.

Looking at the photo in r10 I wonder if Harry Kane sees dead people?

R38 he’s been through it twice, and it shows.

It's ridiculously over-dramatic and swamps practically everything else while the football season is on, R32. Any merits it might have had are long gone. Teams barely represent their communities in any meaningful way, whatever the clubs self-servingly try to say (this goes for the minnows as well as the top teams). The sport is overwhelmingly a vehicle for tribalism, greed, stupidity and is well beyond saving.

R40 Not R32 here, but curious if you feel similiarly about all Pro sport. Do you enjoy Rugby, or respect Premiership Rugby fans more than Premier League Footy fans?

R37 if you’re just looking at that choice in terms of lifestyle, the obvious choice is Paree. It’s the most stable, affluent, and cosmopolitan of the three cities, albeit more expensive and more of a tourist trap—though of course when you’re a footballer on top-flight wages, you can afford a lovely leafy suburban property that is out of the way of the great unwashed. In Paris, the clubs all buy their trophies & players at leisure, and train only when they feel like it. The pace of life is more relaxed, the pressure is low, and the supporters & media aren’t insane frothing stans as they are in England & Spain, and as an expensive sports star one can live a quiet life of luxury there. It’s the easy road.

If one were looking for high accolades in the game and a measure of sporting fame, however, Manchester would be the best choice, as globally the Premier League is currently the biggest and best and most lauded football League. If you make it really big in English football, you’ll be a legend and live forever, plus you’ll be paid a larger club salary and have a more secure playing career. There’s a reason Jack Grealish chose to hold out for a Manchester contract. There’s also a long-established gay scene and community in Manchester which will support and protect gay footballers—always a plus...

Both the city and the football team of Barca are slowly collapsing, sadly. Shame, because their men are as hot as their sunshine.

[quote] always thought Southgate was sexy, and a little bit Bi.

Are you turned on by waistcoats, cautiousness, and choking at crucial moments?😂

Also, what’s “a little bit Bi”? You mean curious, or flexible? FWIW I agree that he gives a vibe that he’s into men, but it’s hard to pinpoint degrees of attraction or reasons for it...

[quote] It's funny how his wife has talked about how he wasn't at all into girls until he met her.

Never heard that, what an interesting remark to make about one’s husband. Sounds a bit like wishful thinking, but if not then it does have, hmmm, implications...

Manchester for sure. I've had some great times there.

R43 Well, certainly not the weskit, as he's ditched it. I rather like his face, and his attitude. As regards any possible bisexual leanings, yeah, just a vibe really. I suppose he reminds me of the Bisexuals I've known.

To his credit, Southgate has openly spoken about gay/bi players, and has encouraged any members of his squad to feel safe and supported in coming out. You have to like him for that if nothing else.

R41, other team sports are more tolerable, as they don't have fans that combine such vast levels of entitlement, spite, hypocrisy and idiocy. They aren't dominated by the madness that is the transfer market and you don't get the bizarre situation of fans giving such abject devotion to a team owned by an oil state or a foreign gazillionaire, with a manager and team of mercenaries gathered from across the globe. And yet these somehow 'represent' them. Incomprehensible.

R47 fwiw I’ve met some nasty aggressive homophobic rugby fan wankers before...

Even John Terry doesn’t want to coach or manage Spurs, and I don’t blame him.

Not on the same scale, R48.

R50 respect; you have your experiences and I have mine.

There’s something to the argument that classism and snobbery handwaves certain antisocial tendencies in the world of rugby fanatics, but perhaps that’s best left for another thread and another time...

BREAKING: Harry’s only gone and sacked his own brother.

Harry isn’t playing the upcoming Europa Conference match, either.

Talk about a strike!

The Times are calling for him to be stripped of England captaincy and even dropped from nationals altogether, which may be the first time I’ve ever wholeheartedly agreed with anything published in their rag.

This furore actually made it onto a 45-minute dedicated segment of NBC Sport. American sports must have been having a quiet week, then...

Heungmin Son is thriving without H holding him back! We love to see it!

gay icon Eric Dier says we are MORE than Harry Kane!

Reports are saying Pep’s finally given up on Barry, and now he’s cheerfully buying the better-looking Fiorentina striker Dusan Vlahovic for half the asking price. Tragique!

Not H sitting by himself on the team bus!!🤭

Harry Kane Simp Disease

Call that Kanecer

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this may be the beginning of the end of the shittiest era in the Premier League..

no one team can constantly be in the top, or buy every trophy. City can't really do much more to boost their power now besides win, and they must still be a bit worried about their chances of actually getting a trophy to splash out 100M on a player that is on par with what they have already got then consider poaching another for 120m.

So maybe this ugly business will be the burst bubble that drops FFP to the ground hard on its arse, and the FA won’t be able to ignore the problems anymore..

“Harry Kane is going nowhere”🤣🤣

So Kane stays, his ambitions thwarted, but still on a massive salary. I expect he'll be less inclined to rush back from injury, put himself at risk etc as he was in the past. Meanwhile, his underperforming team-mates, some of whom trolled him, will likely be moved on to less green pastures as soon as Nuno can manage it.

Rumour has it PSG are tentatively interested in bidding for Haz come summer. After all the problems negotiating Pep isn’t really fussed atm, so Kane would do well to move to Paris immediately given chance. Actually, it would be good PR for him to get out of the Prem and the country for a few years..

He needs to shut up & lay low. Brit fans will pelt him w. all kinds of rotten veg. pretty quick, if he doesn't

[quote] Meanwhile, his underperforming team-mates, some of whom trolled him

What’s good?

H is now demanding mega-wedge as compensation for his condescending to stay with Spurs for the next 6-12. This bitch!

^^tbf the club should pay him at least double for having to wear that hideous new kit every week on tv

Why do they all become such cunts. I get US football. Those guys get head injuries & TBI effects their thought processes. But these assholes..hate them, wait,, Well not all. Today after the Brentford Villa match. Ollie Watkins who was Brentford, but now plays for Villa hung out & got photoed with his big fan Woody. Woody is down syndrome & is a Brentford supporter, but still really attached to Ollie, who makes time for Woody whenever he's around. So, no, not all are shits, just Kane & a few others.

R70 idk about the others, but in Kane’s case I think his behaviour this year is a culmination of cracking under immense chronic pressure to perform and exhaustion from having to carry such a lazy shitty team. He’s had to be the wunderkind exemplar striker/leader/saintly role model of English football for many years, and he’s trying to raise a young family and win cups at the same time. Football as a business is full of high-powered men using these footballers like puppets and pawns to make more paper, and footballers know that they’re just dispensable toys only good as long as they don’t break or get old. It’s a lot to labour under, and best guess is Harry just couldn’t do it anymore and went a bit apeshit.

Not excusing his behaviour in any way, though—he should have preemptively demanded more time off, or asked for an earlier transfer in a respectful way, if it was getting too much for him. There’s always ways to step back without throwing your friends & coworkers under a bus, and Kane suddenly elected not to care. In any industry, it’s unprofessional and inconsiderate to just refuse to come in on your scheduled days and try to undercut all your colleagues to jump to a rival.

oops Jack is Gareth’s new fave now

“My conscience is clear.”

Rich spoiled man feels no guilt about playing passive-aggressive games with other people’s livelihoods and then lying about it to look like a martyr. Checks out.

He better shut it! I've got 2 crates of rotting cabbages in my garden shed with his name on them..