Harry Kane says he wouldn’t stay at Spurs ‘for the sake of it’
Manchester United will miss out on signing Tottenham striker Harry Kane this summer, according to Stan Collymore. Instead, the former Liverpool forward thinks the England international will copy his old team-mate Gareth Bale.
Tottenham sold Bale to Real for £85million in 2013 and the Welshman has gone on to have a glittering career.
United had attempted to sign the winger but he opted for a sensational switch to the Bernabeu.
The two European heavyweights could come to blows again at the end of this season as Kane appears to have put himself on the market.
The 26-year-old has admitted his future could lie away from White Hart Lane and a bidding war is expected to blow up.
And Collymore thinks there will only be one winner should Kane look to jump ship.
Manchester United want to sign Harry Kane (Image: GETTY)
"I listened to Kane’s interview with Jamie Redknapp a couple of weeks ago and you could hear from the comments he made that there’s a bit of frustration," Collymore wrote in his column for the Mirror.
"But the notion that Spurs will sell for around £200million, but not to a domestic rival, is interesting as well because that suggests chairman Daniel Levy is trying to play up interest from the Continent’s big boys.
"And the only clubs with the clout really to compete with Manchester United or Manchester City in England are Real Madrid and Barcelona.
"Those four clubs will have money whatever the weather and Levy’s comments left me wondering if he was laying out the path ahead by saying: ‘Okay, Harry, you can go. But it’s going to be the Spanish capital or Catalunya rather than Manchester'.
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