Man Utd: Kane transfer to club discussed by pundits
Manchester United executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward would not want to spend £200million on Tottenham striker Harry Kane, says former Aston Villa and Chelsea striker Tony Cascarino. Woodward has said he expects most clubs, including United, to be affected financially by the coronavirus pandemic. Cascarino agrees and predicts that big-money deals, such as the world-record £200m Paris Saint-Germain paid for Neymar in 2017, are a thing of the past.
United have been linked with a move for Kane, with reports earlier this month suggesting Tottenham would want £200m for the England captain.
But Cascarino says Woodward would not want to spend that much on one player, despite United being in a strong position financially compared to other clubs.
"The revenue at Man United was nearly £630m last year, so it's extraordinary amounts of money that this club has drawn in," Cascarino said on talkSPORT.
"Okay it's not profit but it's what they're earning season by season, it's been going upwards.
Man Utd news: Tony Cascarino says Ed Woodward wouldn't want to spend £200m on Harry Kane (Image: GETTY)
“I think Ed Woodward will realise that it has a golden opportunity to still make big money and there will be players available for cheaper rates than they would have been.
“I think that’s obvious because there is a European market and they will have been affected but I also feel he knows he cannot, and wouldn’t want to, be spending i.e. £200million on Harry Kane.
“Those deals are just not going to happen. I think they might have happened before the pandemic. There could have been a plus-£100m deal.
“But I still think that Neymar deal or [Philippe] Coutinho was a bit of a one-off moment, I didn’t really feel that would be consistent so it is slightly different anyway.
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“Nobody should be under any illusions about the scale of challenge facing everyone in football,” Woodward said.
“It may not be 'business as usual' for any clubs, including ourselves, in the transfer market this summer.
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“As ever, our priority is the success of the team, but we need visibility of the impact across the whole industry, including timings of the transfer window, and the wider financial picture, before we can talk about a return to normality.
“On this basis, I cannot help feeling that speculation around transfers of individual players for hundreds of millions of pounds this summer seems to ignore the realities that face the sport."