Deep Impact.

“Hello, America,” says Morgan Freeman, playing President Beck in Deep Impact. “It is my unhappy duty to report to you that the Messiah has failed.”

The consequences are bleak. A comet hurtles towards the Earth threatening to wipe out civilisation as we know it.

Those of us who survive the devastation will be faced with the impossible task of rebuilding what was and if that is even possible.

Ok… I’m being a bit dramatic.

However, it is the doomsday scenario that Spurs fans have been dreading for the last four years.

Harry Kane was a generational talent for Spurs. He was symbolic. A local lad, playing for his local club. He was fulfilling all our childhood dreams when we first kicked a ball in our local park.

His story is one of resilience. Despite being rejected at a young age he worked hard to overcome every barrier that has ever been put in front of him.

It was this dedication and desire to achieve that we all loved about him when he wore a Spurs shirt. With Harry, Spurs always had hope regardless of the shit tactics we have had to put up with under Jose Mourinho, Nuno Espirito Santo and Antonio Conte.

It is hard to choose a goal that I enjoyed more out of the 280 in a Lillywhite shirt. Obviously, any goal against Arsenal or Chelsea rates highly.

There was New Years Day 2015. There was that spectacular goal at White Hart Lane that for a short time made us believe we were going to win the league.

There was that winner against Manchester City in an epic 3-2 win at the Etihad, Champions league goals and that time he kicked a Coca-Cola bottle into the night sky at the AMEX (I’m sure you all have your favourites).

There were great moments in an England shirt. But also, massive disappointments.

However, whenever those disappointments arrived, Spurs fans threw a protective wall around him because he was Spurs.

Of course, none of this changes as he leaves for Bayern Munich for a reported £100 million (depending on who you read).

He will still be the greatest Spurs player I have ever seen. With respect to legends like Jimmy Greaves and Glenn Hoddle – and those old enough to have witnessed them in the flesh – I wasn’t fortunate enough to have watched them play.

Once the fallout and dust settles, these are memories we will remember fondly.

However, that won’t stop us questioning how this generational player leaves Spurs without a single trophy to his name.

It won’t stop us from analysing the failure of Daniel Levy and the board for not capitalising on a golden opportunity falling into their laps.

Those outside of the club will describe this as Spurs being perennial bottle jobs. Some will describe those many near misses as ‘Spursy.’

But with respect, it’s too simplistic. It’s too clickbait.

Spurs had their best team in a generation under Mauricio Pochettino, swashbuckling football that was aligned to an identity that was passed down through generations.

The timing of moving to Wembley whilst building a new stadium stagnated that team. There was either a lack of money or ambition to reward players with new contracts and sign top quality players to replace those that began to wane.

Then came two transfer windows when there was no transfer activity at all. A historic mistake that I believe we have only started to recover from.

Then, the inevitable happened. After months of poor form – which was largely ignored because of the run to the Champions League Final – Pochettino was sacked.

Mourinho was appointed to build a winning team without spending winning money. Much the same can be said of Conte.

But despite Kane enjoying working with those historical managers, their styles didn’t fit the identity of the club, nor were they able to coach players who weren’t the finished article.

For the sake of your mental health, I won’t go into the last six months of last season. Simply because we have spent most of the summer trying to recover from it.

The priority this summer was to continue that ‘painful rebuild.’ A positive and progressive manager in Ange Postecoglou joined from Celtic.

We finally had a manager who had good things to say about Spurs whilst being committed to playing that attacking style of play that we all identify with. We had the beginnings of a plan.

The performances in pre-season were encouraging. As was the signing of James Maddison. An exciting English international, Premier League proven player who is about to enter his prime years.

Other members of the squad – like Giovanni Lo Celso and Yves Bissouma – woefully disregarded by those previous managers – were given a new lease of life by Postecoglou.

But of course, the Harry Kane saga was never far from Tottenham minds. Postecoglou handled the situation superbly with his straight-talking, no-nonsense style in his press conferences.

Despite negotiations, there were reports Harry was open to staying for one more year having enjoyed the new style of play and Postecoglou’s training sessions.

If he could score 30 plus goals in an ultra defensive set up, what could he do in an ultra-attacking one?

Would this be enough to fire us back up the league and in the contention for trophies? Maybe, if all went well, Harry would sign that 400k a week contract to keep him at Spurs for life.

In the end it was blind hope. But that’s what it means to be Spurs.

Three days before the beginning of the season, Bayern had finally reached Daniel Levy’s secret valuation.

If you take out context and emotion and replace them with the financial numbers that businessmen deal in, then I get it.

£100m plus for a 30-year-old in the last year of his contract is a good deal. Perhaps in time, history will show this deal to be the right one. I’m not sure any of us could fathom Harry playing in a rival shirt.

But for Spurs fans, it’s not their money.

There is no number that can compensate the devastation of losing a club legend.

Especially when there is no faith that this board will spend the funds wisely on a rebuild. At this moment it feels like they have handicapped Postecoglou before a ball has been kicked.

By the time you read this, Harry will be part of an exciting new journey for him and his family.

I expect that he will deservedly lift his first trophy if Bayern Munich beat RB Leipzig in the German Super Cup on Saturday night.

Of course, he was part of a team that failed to get across the line when it mattered. But we must remember that the messiah didn’t fail Tottenham.

Daniel Levy and ENIC failed him.

For now…we must find a new hope. But regardless of what happens next, Harry Kane always made us proud to be Spurs.

He will always be ‘one of our own.’