Contentious.
Glenn Hoddle came through as well. Ghod won 3 major honours (incl UEFA cup 84) to Kane's none despite Kane having opportunities. Hoddle raised his game in some big matches and that is perhaps the one criticism of Kane. The 16/17 side is considerably better than that 80s team imo, although won less and hard to compare eras.
Steve Perryman another graduate who won 6 major honours, including 2 European honours.
For me, Kane, Greaves and Hoddle are our best players of all time. I know some very old timers though that would argue for Mackay/Blanchflower, and then even Ron Burgess (captain of the push and run league winners).
Kane is in the list of these names. Incredible achievement.
Worth pointing out that Glenn Hoddle who, like Kane had come through Spurs youth system and was a fans favourite (and an astonishing footballer who could do things with the ball that I'm not sure I've seen anyone else do) but he moved to Monaco at about aged 29/30 too despite winning several major trophies. His moving broke my heart too.
Kane's been at Spurs for about 20 years, which in most walks of life is a very long time to be employed - average time to be employed anywhere is probably closer to 5 years. And people change employer for all sorts of reasons - often for more money and a promotion, others just for a change, especially going to a different country. So Kane may well be moving on for, at least partly, the same reasons that motivate everyone else.
But I get the logic that its lack of trophies which is a reason, and that may well be a good reason for Kane to move on (although Hoddle moved despite winning trophies).
Many reasons for Spurs lack of trophies - although we've had our chances with a number of finals and semi finals when Kane has been here and should have won PL in season that Leicester did, so that sucks. But in my view, our transfer record from 2016-19 was awful despite spending several hundred million our best recruits were probably Moura and Sanchez and having screwed up in 4 successive summer windows we are short of the say 8 -12 good players we SHOULD have recruited then, and have had problems moving on the poor quality players on high wages we did recruit.
Whereas Poch inherited a young squad containing a lot of good players - Lloris, Vorm, Rose, Walker, Davies, Vertonghen, Mason and Bentaleb (first choice CM's in Poch first season), Dembele, Eriksen, Kane et al ...... by the time he moved on he left an over played squad in their declining years (in sporting terms) having failed to get equivalent footballers in despite the money spent. And Levy isn't going to sign cheques for ckub record signings such as Ndombele and Lo Celso or Sessegnon without someone on the footballing side saying 'I want that player'
So Kane moving on sucks, as does our trophy haul in recent years. But it is what it is
But we are in a better state than if Kane had moved 3 years ago, because our player acquisition since 2021 has been decent and we now have the nucleus of a decent squad together now, and a manager who we all agree plays great attacking football. So I for one am starting to move on from Kane's departure.
. Sorry if I am misunderstanding.
so as to cushion the reality as to what he was about to be convinced to do.