It was indeed a mentally long contract, was idiotic to not get a written release clause, every major (and most minor) players on the continent ensure a release clause in their contracts.
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It was indeed a mentally long contract, was idiotic to not get a written release clause, every major (and most minor) players on the continent ensure a release clause in their contracts.
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I love it when someone claims they have a gentleman's agreement. There are far quicker ways of saying you're an idiot.
More fool them. A gentleman's agreement means nothing when we are talking about 100million +. If Kane and his amateur brother agent wanted a get out, then they should have insisted on a buy out clause being written into the contract. I don't think Kane is getting sold at all now, I can see Levy keeping him until his contract expires and then Kane going somewhere like the MLS to get paid one last time. Kane should have handled this properly from the start and he might then be in a team where he will win something now.
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It was madness money for a 28 year old. Much better paying a bit more for one of the younger players coming through and getting 8-10 years out of them like they did Aguero. They need to buy a stop gap from one of the smaller clubs.
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I'm guessing most major and minor players on the continent are represented by professional agents who know what they're talking about and not their brother who doesn't seem to know what he's talking about.
Haha. I wonder how the next Kane family get together is going to pan out now.
Yup, when you're the captain and focal point of a Premier League team and you want a big transfer, get the release fee clause put into the contract then Levy's got no way out of it unless it's one of those clauses that becomes active by or after a certain date or with the club in a certain position after a specific date as appears to be the case with Haaland. His minimum release fee clause becomes active in January next year doesn't it so Dortmund know any sensible team will wait until the clause becomes active and save themselves a load of dosh.
Do feel sorry for Kane as genuinely believe levy has shafted him but guess he only has his himself to blame for having a rubbish agent. They do say you should never work with family...
Guess this will be a warning to anyone else having to deal with levy.
Just hope we play just as hard ball with levy over traore
Guess this will be a warning to anyone else having to deal with levy.
Just hope we play just as hard ball with levy over traore
I'm not sure its as cut and dry as some are suggesting. I think he did have an agreement with Levy but I think the agreement was probably that he would be allowed to leave for a fee that represents his value. Not that he would be allowed to leave if he wants for a packet of sweets and a smile.
Yes his brother ****** up on the contract but Harry could easily have overruled him. He was clearly happy with it.
Yes his brother ****** up on the contract but Harry could easily have overruled him. He was clearly happy with it.
He got a 6 year deal at over 200k a week, a contract that works even if he gets completely crocked for 5 years of it, he's been in finals where he could have won plenty of silverware, it's not as if they haven't built the team around him either so "shafted" is a bit OTT.
Full of gushing praise and how he was never going to leave etc?
He could 100% have got far more from another club when he signed that, on a much shorter contract as well. It was poorly managed from Kanes side.
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If I was negotiating a contract and the chairman said your client can leave if a club offers a fee that reflects his value, I'd be thinking, and asking, what do you consider to be his value? And do you mean his value now or his value at the time the offer is made? Can the value go up and down for form/scoring goals/being injured and not playing etc or is it a static value?
I think whatever the actual situation and the interpretation of the "agreement" it is clear that Harry's brother messed up and, by extension, Harry has messed up by allowing his brother to represent him rather than hire a professional agent.
He has been shafted though if levy did go back on a verbal agreement but it just smack of naivety for not getting it in writing. And 200k a week is way short of the going rate for a top class striker but again what you get for being poorly advised.
Be interesting to see where his head is at this season, especially if has no sight of leaving next year too. Would be hilarious if they end up with a Phil Jones on the books
And there lies the problem with verbal agreements, there's no way Levy would have said that, not at least with a huge asterisk and/or if the price is right and all the moons align etc
As for Kanes commitment, he has had doubters his entire career, he will still put in his shift and prove everyone wrong yet again.
Well yeah, but instead of shaking hands on it with Levy crossing two fingers behind his back, just get it in writing?
It's pretty cut and dry imo, players have been asking for release clauses in their contracts as far back as the 90's. There is no reason any elite player shouldn't have one, even if it's their boyhood club.
it's not a warning for anyone else dealing with Levy. Everyone else already knows he is a tough negotiator and deal maker, plus everyone else is not as thick as Kane and his thick brother who thought that a "Gentleman's agreement" would see him right. Zero sympathy for Kane in all of this. He should have thought things through properly and he simply made his position even worse by trying to get in a strop and not turning up for training. I know most footballers are idiots, but Kane is the text book definition of an idiot in everything he has done regarding his career options from the day he appointed his brother as his agent, right up to the day he though not turning up to training would force Levy's hand.
Yeah obvious to everyone else, just beggars belief. One thing it will do is make sure everything is in writing with levy
If it was not written down then he can't prove anything, so clearly he is an idiot for not getting a release clause worked into his contract. But as you say the fact that he didn't ask for one, may well be that he was completely happy at the prospect of 200K /week for the next 6 years at Spurs. If he is that bothered about winning silverware he could always buy himself out of his spurs contract with his own money and then go to city as a free agent. But I would imagine he is not that desperate for a trophy that he would use 30million of his own cash to buy the rest of his contract with spurs out.
Kane hasn't had many doubters for a long time now. The only reason he isn't discussed more is because there never seemed much chance of him being for sale or leaving Spurs and for a while there Spurs had a genuinely good squad and were potentially going places.
I bet Levy was absolutely ******* himself after Kane signed his last contract. They got one of the best strikers in the world for about £100k/week less than he was worth and managed to get him on a contract that would essentially see him to the end of his useful career.