Telegraph report. It’s coming from Man Utd this I bet.
Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy has been told he must sell Harry Kane if he cannot persuade the England captain to sign a new contract.
Spurs owner Joe Lewis is understood to have informed Levy he is unprepared to let Kane run down his contract and leave as a free agent next summer.
Sources have indicated that if Levy cannot convince the striker to extend his deal, Lewis will expect the club to sell rather than forgo a huge fee, with Tottenham valuing Kane at around £100 million, if not more.
Bayern Munich are preparing a third offer for Kane and do not believe the striker wants to sign a new contract with Tottenham, who are thought to be willing to pay him as much as £400,000 a week to stay.
It remains to be seen if Manchester United could be tempted to formalise their interest in Kane - who would be manager Erik ten Hag’s dream target - given Lewis’ ultimatum.
But, for now at least, the club are pursuing Atalanta striker Rasmus Hojlund and have other targets on their list amid reservations about Tottenham’s willingness to sell to them and the overall cost of the deal.
If forced to sell Kane - who turns 30 on Friday - Levy would much prefer to do so to an overseas club rather than a Premier League rival, which strengthens Bayern’s hand.
Nonetheless, the prospect of allowing Kane - as close to a guarantee of goals as any player realistically available this summer - to move to Bayern without putting up a fight for his services would frustrate many United fans given the uplift he would bring.
Kane’s wife Kate has reportedly been looking at homes in Munich and Bayern believe the player is willing to join them.
A move abroad would effectively end Kane’s ambition to break Alan Shearer’s Premier League goals record. He is currently 47 short of equalling Shearer’s total of 260.
But Kane is also desperate to win trophies and Thomas Tuchel, the Bayern coach, is thought to have told him they can win the Champions League together.
Spurs manager Ange Postecoglou is becoming increasingly frustrated by the talk around Kane and has urged the club to resolve his future and admitted he is “not relaxed” about the situation.
Postecoglou’s mood was not helped this week when a German journalist ambushed his press conference in Bangkok to display a Bayern shirt with Kane’s number on the back.
Kane is not the only England international Bayern are trying to sign. Tuchel also wants to bring Kyle Walker to Germany from Manchester City in a potential £15m deal. Pep Guardiola, the City manager, held talks with Walker about his future in recent days and is now awaiting a final decision from the defender.
United are huge admirers of Kane but have been wary of being drawn into a stand-off with Levy and the cost of trying to do a deal given the limitations on what they can spend owing to Uefa’s new Financial Sustainability rules governing spending.
