Wenger’s Arsenal successor revealed

‘HARRY K IS OUR NEW STEVIE G’ reads the headline to a two-page spread. The Tottenham striker has signed a new contract, and Mauricio Pochettino is ruddy delighted. The sub-headline poses a question:

‘Pochettino puts an arm around his star striker and says: One day he could become a loyal one-club man like Gerrard or Terry…why not?’

There are two problems here. First, Kane cannot be a one-club man. He has had four separate loan spells with different clubs. He can be a ‘one-permanent-club’ man, but that just sounds like a terrible superhero.

Second, neither of the other two men mentioned qualify, either. We don’t feel it too pedantic to point out that Terry spent time on loan at Nottingham Forest in 2000, while the problem with Gerrard is obvious. Can he really be a one-club man when the most recent club he played for is not the ‘one club’ he was supposedly ‘loyal’ to?

Neil McLeman ploughs on regardless, however:
‘And unless they get a Gareth Bale-style offer, he could yet join a rare band of one-club men in the modern era like former England stars Gerrard and Terry.’

Indeed. It’s a band so rare that the two you mention are not even members, much like ‘Harry K’.

Sugar Kane
‘Harry Kane could earn £150,000 a week thanks to his new six-year mega-deal with Spurs’ – The Sun .

‘The deal runs until 2022 and Kane will earn about £120,000 a week plus bonuses’ – The Times.

‘Harry Kane has secured a huge wage hike to £100,000 a week and could see his earning rocket even further after signing a new five-and-a-half-year contract with Tottenham. He was on £60,000 a week’ – Daily Mail .

‘Kane’s contract is worth over £100,000 a week with bonuses’ – Daily Mirror.

‘It is understood the 23-year-old will earn a basic £90,000 a week’ – Daily Telegraph .

‘Kane penned a new five-and-a-half-year deal that sees a basic salary of £50,000 a week rise to about £80,000’ – Daily Express .

So Kane will be earning £150,000 a week. Or ‘about £80,000’. Thanks for clearing that up, guys.