“Whether he’s one of their own or not.” Kane tipped to leave Spurs if top four isn’t secured

Harry Kane has been tipped to leave Tottenham at the end of this season if they fail to secure top four football.

Spurs are struggling in this campaign and there is every chance that they might finish outside the Champions League places for a second consecutive campaign.

Kane has remained their best player and the Englishman is doing his part in making sure that they achieve their goals.

However, every team needs more than one player to keep performing for them to win things.

One route Spurs had in making a return to the Champions League was winning the Europa League.

But they have crashed out of the competition and have to achieve Champions League qualification by ending the campaign inside the top four.

If they fail to do so, the spotlight would be on Kane again in the summer after he claimed that they must match his ambition to keep him.

Sun Sports’ Phil Thomas reckons he will leave them if they can’t get Champions League football next season.

He writes: “The main thing now for Tottenham is reaching the top four and reclaiming a place in the Champions League — which is why victory at Villa on Sunday is so vital.

“Manage that and they are still only three points adrift of Chelsea, in the fourth and final slot, with a similar goal difference.

“Fail and they’d be big outsiders to get back into the competition they lit up just two years ago — even though their plummet since makes it seem like a different age.

“But miss out again and there is no way on God’s earth you can picture Harry Kane starting another season in a Tottenham shirt, whether he’s one of their own or not.

“For all he loves the club, for all he has insisted he can achieve all he wants where he already is… blow it this time and you can forget that.

“Sympathy and Spurs haven’t been the closest of bedfellows over the years. Laughter at times. Pity at others. But sympathy? Rarely.

“Yet you looked at Kane on Thursday night and it was hard not to feel it. For him, not the rest of the clowns who basically got what they deserved, that is.

“Kane wants to win things, of course, and more than anything he wants to win them at Spurs. And by win things, he doesn’t mean one league cup. He means big stuff, regularly.

That’s never going to happen where he is, and he knows it. Just like he knows this summer will probably be his last chance to get a move to one of the genuine big guns.”