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Harry Kane: Tottenham will not sell striker to domestic rival this summer

By Simon StoneBBC Sport

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Tottenham striker Harry Kane scores against Brighton
Harry Kane has scored 11 goals in 20 Premier League games this season

Tottenham Hotspur have no intention of letting striker Harry Kane leave the club this summer and would not sell to a domestic rival.

Kane, 26, signed a six-year contract with Spurs in June 2018.

Last month, he said he would not stay at the north London club "just for the sake of it", and there are reports chairman Daniel Levy would be open to selling him for about £200m.external-link

Manchester United are long-time admirers of the England captain.

Tottenham were one of the first Premier League clubs to furlough staff in response to the coronavirus pandemic, with Levy warning that "people need to wake up to the enormity" of the crisis.

However, the club subsequently reversed that decision following criticism from supporters, with only board members now taking salary reductions.

There are suggestions that because of financial worries, Levy would sanction Kane's sale if the fee was in the region of the world record £200m Paris St-Germain paid Barcelona to sign Brazil forward Neymar in 2017.

However, there is uncertainty over the summer transfer market given the present shutdown of football across Europe, with all the major clubs facing a financial headache.

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  • Comment posted by afc12, at 09:30 13 Apr 2020

    Maybe for that £200m they could pay their non playing staff or are times still tight for Levy that we have to pay.

  • Comment posted by David Horton, at 09:33 13 Apr 2020

    £200 million?
    Not worth it.
    Not worth half of that.

    More to the point, why does Levy need that much money? The taxpayer is already paying to furlough his non-playing staff.

    Cheapskate.

  • Comment posted by Arty, at 09:51 13 Apr 2020

    It's because the rivals are not stupid enough to pay £200m to the money grabbers. The owner of Spurs is worth £6bn+ and yet it is furloughing staff. A disgraceful club.

  • Comment posted by U17238560, at 09:41 13 Apr 2020

    £200 million would buy 6,000 ventilators.

  • Comment posted by wirral reds, at 09:43 13 Apr 2020

    So Levy pays himself £7m and reports suggest he may sell Kane for £200m. Then he tells us all to wake up to the enormity of the pandemic crisis. So long as he inhabits his different planet......

  • Comment posted by ChopperHarris, at 10:10 13 Apr 2020

    This current crisis really underlines just how obscene these mooted figures are. Not just the transfer fees but the wages that these jokers earn.

    Many earn more in a week than a nurse might earn in five years.

    Do your bit. Cancel your season tickets and end your SKY Sports and other such subscriptions.

    Personally, haven't missed football as much as I imagined over the past month.

  • Comment posted by Big Mick, at 09:28 13 Apr 2020

    Come to The Toon Harry. We will give Spurs 10 million plus Joelinton in exchange

  • Comment posted by mdb, at 09:59 13 Apr 2020

    if they can get that fine. Then spurs can pay the tax payer back for Subsidising them. No premier league club should be asking for govt handouts to pay staff wages, Any club that does should be banned from buying players until they have paid it back

  • Comment posted by Steve P, at 09:51 13 Apr 2020

    Football needs a reboot, especially financially and now is the time to do it. The sums of money being thrown about, as smaller clubs go bust were ridiculous 15 years ago; now it is obscene. The landscape is going to be completely different after the virus. £200m for a football player while there are starving people in the world for crying out loud. Transfer fees and wages should be capped.

  • Comment posted by 19stfatlad, at 09:31 13 Apr 2020

    Cash in on him and rebuild the team around Son. Look what Liverpool did with the money they got for Coutinho.

  • Comment posted by dave2261, at 09:31 13 Apr 2020

    Money talks...heard it all before...If the price is right they'll sell.

  • Comment posted by Susie, at 10:24 13 Apr 2020

    If they get 200 mln for selling anyone the govt needs to slap them with a huge windfall tax. As an NHS worker household spurs are a total disgrace - from furloughing staff to kick abouts in the park zero sense and zero class!

  • Comment posted by Dioufy112, at 09:31 13 Apr 2020

    Greedy Kane. Still to this day can't believe he didn't square it to sterling in the world Cup semi final!

  • Comment posted by stracepipe, at 10:33 13 Apr 2020

    There should be a transfer ban on any club that furlough its staff.

  • Comment posted by Long_Range_Sniper, at 09:56 13 Apr 2020

    R.I.P Peter Bonetti. It was a pleasure seeing you play.

  • Comment posted by Slippery, at 09:30 13 Apr 2020

    You're not fooling anyone Mr Levy, if a huge bid comes in you'll rip their arms off!

  • Comment posted by Origo, at 09:31 13 Apr 2020

    So who looks foolish here then, splashed all over the press yesterday £200m Kane can go to United

    POOR FOOTBALL CRYING FOR FINANCIAL HELP ONLY LAST WEEK!

  • Comment posted by number240578, at 10:26 13 Apr 2020

    One of the few good things from the Covid-19 situation is that it's given us all a chance to re-evaluate what's actually important in our lives.

    Fast forward 4 weeks and the UK media are back to trash gossip about over-inflated transfer fees.

    If you still care about this sort of pointless transfer nonsense (especially with Spurs given Levy's behaviour) then have a word with yourself.

  • Comment posted by henry v, at 10:21 13 Apr 2020

    rip peter bonetti [ the cat ] rip stirling moss two sporting legends in the true sense of the word.

  • Comment posted by alan, at 10:12 13 Apr 2020

    £178 million for Neymar seemed absurd at the time.
    Then it was followed by £148 million for Coutinho which was just bonkers. And that was when the world was relatively sane.
    Now we have of £200 million of an injured striker in the middle of a pandemic where nobody can play football? Kane is a great striker but £200 million? Football really has lost the plot.

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