Harry Kane speaks for the first time on his desire to quit Tottenham Hotspur in chat with Gary Neville, as speculation continues to be rife.
The England international is set to wave goodbye to his current club this summer and has now had a candid chat with the Sky Sports pundit, insisting that the club may even be keen to cash in and sell him if they can get £100million.
In a blow for the north London outfit earlier this month by telling them he wants to leave, the latest reports have claimed that both Manchester City and Manchester United are willing to offer him £300,000 a week to join.
Tottenham supporters are desperate for their star man to stay, but are expecting his to go as the wait goes on for a trophy of some sort.
Kane has admitted a ‘crossroads moment’ is coming after the season ends – and even thinks there is a chance Daniel Levy and Co will be happy to let him leave.
‘I don’t know, I mean he might want to sell me,’ Kane said in a conversation with his former England coach Neville for SkyBet’s The Overlap. ‘He might be thinking “If I could get £100m for you, then why not?” Do you know what I mean? I’m not going to be worth that for the next 2 or 3 years.’
After being questioned about how he thinks the difficult conversation with Levy will go this summer, Kane was quick to praise the chairman and insists they have always enjoyed a positive relationship.
‘I hope we have a good enough relationship,’ he adds, in the interview filmed last week. ‘I’ve given the club… well, I’ve been there 16 years of my life. So, I hope that we can have a good honest conversation and see where we are at in that aspect.’
At 27 years of age, Kane has never gone quiet on his desire to reach the very top of the game, and it is clear that he still holds very high ambitions.
This season, he has gone toe-to-toe with Mohamed Salah battling for the Golden Boot, both are on 22 Premier League goals each with one match remaining.
For Kane, however, that number is not high enough and he sees himself scoring plenty more – wherever he ends up playing next season and beyond.
‘I don’t want to have come to the end of my career and have any regrets,’ he said. ‘So, I want to be the best that I can be. I’ve said before, I’d never say that I’d stay at Spurs for the rest of my career. I’d never say that I would leave Spurs.
‘I still feel like I’ve still got almost another career to play. I’ve got another 7 or 8 years. I’m not rushing anything. I’m not desperate to do anything. I feel like for sure I’ve got so much more to give. I feel like I can be even better than what I’ve been. I can produce better numbers than what I’m producing at the moment.
‘I’m not afraid to say that I want to be the best. I’m not afraid to say I want to try get on the level that Ronaldo and Messi got to. You know, that’s my ultimate goal. That’s my aim, to be winning trophies season in, season out. Scoring 50, 60, 70 goals season in, season out. That’s the standard I want to set myself.’
For the 2020/21 campaign, Spurs dropped out of the race for the top four early and are now left worried that they could miss out on claiming a European spot heading into the final day of the season.
As it stands, they sit seventh in the Premier League table, travelling to fifth-placed Leicester on the final day on Sunday.
Should they finish in their current position, they will be rewarded with a spot in UEFA’s new Conference League competition.
Clearly, though, Kane is aiming to be playing regularly in the latter stages of the Champions League and it is unlikely Europe’s third-tier competition will suffice.
Fans reacted as Harry Kane speaks on his desire to quit Tottenham in a chat with Gary Neville…
@JBishop83: Reality is that while this is sad, it shouldn’t be a devastating blow for a club to lose 1 player, we should be set up to sell for big money, & reinvest to keep the club moving forward. However, we don’t have that structure and can’t really see what the plan is to build again
@ChrisJSYTHFC: Fuck sake.
@bruceg87: This is what happens when the Chairman decides to listen to the players that the Manager wants to get rid of & sack a manager before a cup final. Daniel Levy has shot himself in the foot. You lose your star players like Harry Kane
@FvckSpurs: yeah he’s gone
@n17echotweet: Bruh, pushing the knife deeper into my chest. Keep going
@nicktaylor271: Just hope levy don’t drag it out all summer then panic buy in last few week. 130mil set the price if paid let him go I can only see city paying that or Chelsea and if he goes there then everything he has ever done means nothing to me
@Marc_BA1: A summer where Spurs need to already sell half their squad in order to have a successful rebuild is compounded with Harry Kane’s desire to want to leave. Levy HAS to step aside from football decisions completely. Levy ins and Levy outs should find common ground here.
@Danny_Walters14: This sounds like Kane giving Levy and ultimatum, you either invest in this squad or you sell me, I can see Kane staying for one more year and then if nothing improves he will go
@n17ball: Sky bet promoting this so everyone goes over and bets on the move. Shameless.
@db18111986: What a great, open, honest interview. You see so many cryptic interviews and cloak and dagger. Such a professional. Sadly I think I’ve celebrated his last goal in a Tottenham shirt.
@pastapete7: He’ll never be a Messi or Ronaldo… hasn’t the same skills.
@liltrigger2: Harry Kane is basically promoting himself for sale to City 😂😂
@John_Wardy: He’s joining City. Can’t see him going to Chelsea and after seeing Cavani extend there’s no way United will pay over 100 million for another striker.
@matheusdamas__: “Yeah, like you say, I want to be playing in the biggest games. The biggest moments” too bad he often doesn’t show up on those kind of games (for us at least)
@BennPayne273: Personally i read that as “i am willing to do this 1 more time. Just once. Levy either matches my ambition and shows it with big signings and a proper league title push and domestic cup push, or i leave for a team that values that.”
@ABurningPride: Smashing player. On his best day he’ll never get near Messi or Ronaldo, but he could become Englands best ever player if he makes the right move next. In that Man City team & playing for Pep, I think he gets 40-50 goals a season easy.
@Faber1982N (to Gary Neville): So you leaked the info to sky? All the crap you spouted the other week about caring about football. Smh
@andyperry79: This makes the situation feel more retrievable than the media have made out. Still big summer for levy.
@FlexUTD: Have to respect Harry Kane. Honest interview with G Nev. He deserves to get to the the next t level.
@antrayuk: Best…BEST…case scenario is Levy gives him a brand new contract on a ton of cash that allows him to leave in a years time for £100 million or something as a release clause. Compensates him for his time and gives the club some short-term stability, while giving him an out #COYS
@LewisRiley18: We know more about the Kane situation than we do with the direction on the football club and that’s completely wrong and shows just how disconnected the board are with the fans.
Bye king pic.twitter.com/L6hzXEzmVd
— Max (@thfcmax__) May 20, 2021
Couldn’t convince him to sign for us could you
— Stuzi 🐝 (@Stuzi9mm) May 20, 2021
Finally the day has come, he’s finally leaving this finished club
— Charles Leroy (@tufaisquoiici) May 20, 2021
— FPL Nicholson (Was FPL Levy) (@FPL_Nicholson) May 20, 2021
I feel so sad for Harry Kane, he would have been one of the best players in the world at any other club, if you want to leave no one will blame you.
We have let him down. We have failed this man. pic.twitter.com/1o7bCqUQ8P
— KaneXtra (@KaneXtra10) May 20, 2021
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