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Patrice Evra urges Tottenham to sell Harry Kane following Man Utd transfer claim
Roy Keane backed Manchester United to sign Tottenham star Harry Kane on Sunday.
Legend Manchester United defender Patrice Evra believes Tottenham should sell stars such as Harry Kane to help rebuild the squad.
Former United captain Roy Keane claimed on Sunday that the Red Devils should go all out to sign Kane to solve their goalscoring problems.
Tottenham were a subject of discussing on Monday Night Football, where Evra was a special guest.
The Frenchman was asked by presenter David Jones: “Should [Spurs] start thinking about selling Harry Kane, selling Dele Alli, to try and raise funds to improve the rest of the squad?”
When it is a long period you’re playing together and you don’t win something, mentally it is really difficult to recover
And Evra replied by saying the time is right for Spurs to move Kane on.
“Exactly, they have to rebuild the team,” he said.
“It’s six years they’ve been playing together and the problem is like, when it is a long period you’re playing together and you don’t win something, mentally it is really difficult to recover after that.”
Meanwhile, former Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher believes Tottenham have hit a ceiling and are on the slide.
Mauricio Pochettino’s side are currently seventh in the Premier League table, collecting 12 points from their first nine games of the campaign, drawing their last outing 1-1 against bottom-of-the-table Watford on Saturday.
“I just think they’ve got to that thing where every year they were getting better, closer, nearly won the league, record points total, Champions League final - and you come so close and you’re just not quite [there],” Carragher said.
“They need the [Virgil] Van Dijk or the Alisson moment that Liverpool have had.
“Before Liverpool signed those two players, Tottenham finished above Liverpool I think seven out of nine years.
“They just never, ever got that superstar to take them to that next level to actually win something.
“And now as I said it looks like they’re going the other way and that’s a massive problem for them.”