Manchester City reportedly made a £100million bid for Harry Kane and it was turned down by Tottenham who insists on keeping the striker.
The Premier League champions are determined to sign him and they reportedly also offered some players in addition to the fee, as a sweetener.
The Athletic has now revealed the identity of the players that they offered to the Lilywhites.
The report says City gave Spurs the option of signing Gabriel Jesus, Bernardo Silva, Raheem Sterling, Aymeric Laporte and Riyad Mahrez.
Kane remains the most important player at Spurs and even though he has asked to leave, Spurs will not make it easy.
Daniel Levy has already developed the reputation for being a hard businessman to negotiate with when it comes to selling his players.
He has vowed to do what is best for the club and it remains unclear if it also includes keeping Kane for another season.
The players being offered by City are top stars who have won multiple trophies between them.
However, they are all on huge salaries at the club and paying their wages might become a problem for Tottenham.
Convincing the players to also move down to a Tottenham side that is currently struggling to remain relevant might also be a problem for Spurs.
Fantastic podcast by Malcom Gladwell makes it clear – scientifically proven – that improving a “soccer” team is about upgrading your worst players, not splashing out on a single superstar, makes sense right, there’s a lot of people on the pitch that need a touch, the fewer of them are a liability the better.
With this in mind I’d swap Kane for all of them in a heartbeat – except Sterling of course, who can do one.
Is it another slow news day…a deal nobody has come out and said they want, and I wouldn’t want Sterling on a free.
Probably got big signing on fees and bonuses for winning Premier League etc and some young players will take a discount to play for a club like City that actually win things.
None of em would want to come anyway, and Levy certainly wouldn’t pay there wages if they did. City will have to bid £150m to get Kane it looks like. Though if he wants to go I don’t see the point in holding out for that?
More like a screwed cookie.
Won’t happen, Levy has already said he wants a cash only deal.
These player swaps are almost impossible to pull off because the players simply don’t want to be forced to go to one particular club.
Never mind most of the City players would be on far bigger wages and sadly Spurs would not top their wish lists.
Sterling has already come out and said no to a potential move to Spurs. I don’t know what they’ve done to deserve this punishment!
Sounds like the sort of deal I would try to pull in Football Manager
Levy a shrewd cookie he would get Man City to subsudise the shortfall in wages for the first couple of years. He knows Harry is desperate to leave and Man City really want him so Danny boy is holding all the aces.
I wish we had either the Man City or Liverpool owners as they have won stuff in half the time we have been lumbered with ENIC
Yes Laporte looks energetic and worth a go. Them 2 plus 100 mill will do fine for Hazza to go and achieve his dreams.
Haha!. Yeah, the next 3 to 25 years…..Levy will start spending when Boris lifts the restrictions….nnnnnever
Laporte and Bernardo Silva if I had to choose.However even if they wanted to switch Levy won’t match their wages.120K 150K/W respectively.Amazingly Ederson is on 50K and Zinchenko only 20K.A number of their players are on less than you might think.
I would translate “we need to be pwudent over the next ‘few’ years” as Kane is leaving because otherwise we can’t afford a rebuild…
Levy needs to stop pretending and take the money, I’ll have Bernardo too, he’s a good player. Chop chop Daniel there’s a squad to build and not much time to do it.
He likely knows he can hold out for more money when Harry inevitably starts scoring in the Euros…..which will begin tonight, 1 goal, perhaps 2 …..probably 2.
This is going to drag like chainmail.
Can’t blame Harry wanting out off our shambles of a club, would happily take 100 million + Jesus & Laporte