The Daily Mail have revealed that Tottenham Hotspur’s majority owner Joe Lewis has instructed Daniel Levy that Harry Kane must be sold this summer if the striker refuses to put pen to paper on a new contract this summer.
Bahamas-based Lewis is keen to ensure that Kane does not run his contract down and leave the club on a free transfer next summer.
Levy is said to value the England captain at £100m but it is said that the Tottenham chairman will now come under pressure to cash in on the centre-forward if he refuses to accept the club’s offer of a new lucrative contract offer, which is thought to be worth £400,000 a week.
Joe Lewis instructs Levy to sell Kane if he fails to sign new contract
Multiple publications, including The Times, have reported over recent days that Kane has no intention of signing a new contract this summer since he is keen on making a switch to Bayern Munich.
Kane, who celebrates his 30th birthday on Friday, has entered the final 12 months of his six-year Spurs deal and is currently in Singapore with the rest of the squad as they prepare for Wednesday’s pre-season match against Lion City Sailors.
Meanwhile, Bild even claimed over the weekend that the striker’s wife, Kate, has already been to Germany to look for a new home outside Munich and the district of Grunwald in Bavaria.
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Other members of Kane’s family are also said to have been in the German city ‘in the past few days to look at international schools and properties’.
Bayern Munich honorary president Uli Hoeness recently claimed that Kane will join the Bundesliga champions this summer after more or less giving his word over the move.
He told Sport1: “Up to now it was the case that Harry has clearly signalled in all the talks that his mind is made up. And if that remains the case, then we’ll get him, then Tottenham will have to give way.”
“Now he has the chance again to come to a top club in Europe. What we all like is that he and his agents, his father and the brother, have always clearly stood by what they’ve said. If it stays like that, then that’s OK.”
Hoeness added that talks with Levy were difficult.
“He’s clever,” Hoeness continued. “He isn’t naming a price. First of all, we have to bring him so far as to name a price. Of course, he’s playing for time. He’s savvy and, I find, a super professional, I really like him. But I think these are people who haven’t just been doing this since yesterday.”
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I do expect Tottenham to cash in on Kane this summer as it is pretty clear that he is not going to sign a new contract. However, I am sceptical about the suggestion that Lewis has got involved in the Kane situation since as the 86-year-old has always previously been happy to let Levy manage the club’s affairs.
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