Former Liverpool defender turned BBC pundit Mark Lawrenson, has claimed that Daniel Levy would sell Harry Kane this summer if a big enough offer comes in.
Kane is arguably the most important player at Spurs at the moment, and the England striker is one reason why they are still a top side.
They have often struggled when he is out of the team and it is almost unthinkable that they would want to sell him, but Lawrenson feels it won’t be a new thing if Spurs sell him.
He claimed that he didn’t think Kane enjoys leading the Spurs attack at the moment as he doesn’t get to see many quality balls to feed on.
He added that the Lilywhites will have a lot of work to do to get near the top two next season, although with Kane in their team they will always carry a goal threat.
He then talked about Levy selling high-profile names like Michael Carrick and Dimitar Berbatov before now and reckoned that Kane would be sold too if a good offer comes along.
“Spurs have got a lot of work to do if they want to get nearer the top two next season, but with Harry Kane in their side, they always carry a goal threat.” He wrote for the BBC.
“The worry there is that someone might come in for Kane and say to him ‘look, come and play for a team who try to win games’ because I don’t imagine playing up front for Spurs is too much fun at the moment – he is being fed off scraps.
“Plus, we have seen before with Dimitar Berbatov and Michael Carrick that, if players want to leave and a big enough offer is received, Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy is willing to sell.”
That is definitely a valid opinion but it would have to be a stupendous offer for Levy to risk the wrath of the fans.
There lies the problem, even our good players are not even looking promising, our trash is really clear.
Not looking good is it? We have to start with priorities. We might want a new GK, but we are not desperate for one, Lloris still has petrol in the tank. We do need a right back and strikers though. With a bit of Billy Bean’s ‘Moneyball’ we can replace Kane’s 25 League goals per season with 3 quality players. With who is up to our exalted leader and his minions. God, Mohammed, Buddha and Ganesh help us! We will also make some money selling our spare parts, of which we have a few. We just need to con some suckers in to buying them!
Spurs are in rebuild mode, even Mourinho is talking in terms of three to five years. Harry is going the only questions are when and for how much. Who knows how well the money will be spent. Recruitment is probably the hardest part of building a team, Everton’s new owner has spent over £400 million and what good has it done. Our record of signing is very hit and miss, for every Sonny there is a Jannssen, N’jie and N’Koudou. Let’s hope Mourinho can improve things.
walob from “miserable Mark”.….I can’t stand the way Tight Purse acts but he doesn’t tout our best players around. I cant remember exactly the Carrick situ but I do remember Modric,Berbatoss, Balio.
If Harry expresses a desire to leave it could be interesting though.
Well below – I said we likely get £150m for Kane in current climate. If you think about the “quality” we would want, we would be lucky to get 2 players for that, and one would need to replace Kane. So we are basically considering flogging him to buy 1 better DMF than we have, and reduce our attack potential. We may push to 3 players, if lucky, so that potentially is a left back too. Which is worrying as we also need a right back.
Actually scary – next 3 yrs:
2 right backs (need 1 now)
2 CBs (Verts and Toby aging out)
Goal keeper
2 Left backs (need at least 1 now)
1 DMF (need now)
Creative player (Grealish being linked, but I prefer LoCelso)
and a back up for Kane (or 2 strikers)
even on levy money that is circa £300-350m! That would buy us AVERAGE players.
If we sell Kane we need 2 strikers minimum and a right back. Then there is the DM and LB to consider. If we can’t buy the right players though I wouldn’t just want another not so magnificent 7. Chelsea, albeit with a stronger squad sold Hazard and couldn’t strengthen due to their ban. Imagine losing your best player and still challenge for top 4 with a newbie manager! They have, what look to be 2 good Ch Lg ready players in Ziyech and Werner. Does anyone think we have a plan for selling Harry? I’m guessing at Giroud!
Relieved to see Sky Sports in that link. 😂
Well one “positive” IF we did sell Kane would be that we would finally buy a new striker.
Also, look at the balls on this guy….crazy
https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11679/12028372/manchester-city-deserve-apology-after-cas-overturned-european-ban-says-pep-guardiola
Everyone has a price and everyone can be replaced well sort of
I dont want to sell Kane….lets start there. However, I think he will go, it is right for him, and potentially right for us. Levy made it clear – we must sell to buy. We would need to sell at least 2 players for each one we want to bring in (lets be honest,in current climate, who would buy who of our team? Ndombele maybe, but sure as hell not for the money we want). So…lets pretend Levy actually changes his spots, and sells Kane for a decent chunk (current climate £150m?) and went out and bought us a hungry, and decent pair of forwards, and a top draw DMF…would we be happy? so spent the whole money on real ballers. Kane is great, but starved of service, and injury prone (mainly due to playing alone) it is a lot of the teams value in one player.