I tend to agree with your assessment, but that's why I also have doubts he's sold this summer. If I'm Levy/Paratici, City is the only club I'd sell to. And at a record fee. They're going to spend enough to trump us to a top 4 place no matter what, so giving them Kane doesn't matter.Well if the right bid never comes in for him, it's not like there are ever circumstances under which Spurs wouldn't happily offer him a bumper new contract. He has that as a fallback.
He is hell bent on Shearer's record, I'm sure of it. He won't go abroad.
United and Chelsea are the two clubs we're targeting season in and season out to knock out of the CL places - I wouldn't ever pick the phone up for them.
So, unless City is offering a record fee for him he has no leverage to force a move domestically. So its a matter of how bad does he want to leave Tottenham, then.