Tottenham striker Harry Kane, 24, will be a target for Real Madrid in the summer, with the Spanish club prepared to pay £200m for the England striker.
Kane, Spurs’ leading earner on £120,000 a week. Such a wage places him below a number of other top English players, and Ross Barkley has just signed a significantly better deal at Chelsea.
Salary alone will not be enough to retain a player whose motivations have never been driven by money. Earlier this month, Kane said Spurs need to begin winning trophies to keep him in the long term. “I’ve always said, ‘Keep progressing, keep getting better, start winning trophies.’ That’s the aim, as long as the club keep doing that I’m happy here,” he said.
Of further concern to Tottenham is the head coach situation at the Bernabeu. Despite winning eight trophies in his first 18 months in charge, Zinedine Zidane is under threat of dismissal and Pochettino is among the candidates being considered to replace him.
Though contracted until 2021, the Argentinian is on the lowest salary of all the coaches in the Premier League’s top six and also earns less than Sam Allardyce at Everton. Pochettino may also be targeted this summer by PSG.
I've said it before, but Spurs are going to have a rough ride ahead trying to keep their best players and pay for a new stadium. Apparently the stadium costs have risen from £400m to £750m and if they miss out on CL this year, then that's going to make it even harder to pay their players the £200k wages that will be needed to keep them.
Damning really that Ross Barkley is paid more than Harry Kane, and Sam Allardyce is paid more than PochettinoAnd as the article indicates, Real might want to take both Kane and Pochettino to the Bernabeu.
It's the holy grail for the likes of Arsenal, United and Chavs.
If you live by the dollar, you'll get shafted by the dollar!
That's what Wenger has discovered.
Levy likes to inspire loyalty. I think the lads look upon him as a kindly uncle type.
Poch, of course, is the older brother that all the lads wished they had.
You are as deluded as they come. Which is fine, because it will be funnier watching your meltdown when Kane does eventually leave for a big club.
I’ll be gutted when he leaves mate, he has single handedly stifled any ambition and trophies in his quest for riches. Now he has landed them a stadium where the costs have ballooned by almost half a billion and will expect the players and fans to accept no marquee signings, low wages and higher admission costs to pay for it.I think it's great that Spurs fans laud Daniel Levy as the messiah. A chairman who's sacked 12 managers and won practically **** all during his entire tenure. Long live Levy
^^^What a fecking rant or what!I only said that because Cliff Jones said he'd had words with Bale's dad, and therefore had it on good authority that Bale would be staying at Spurs.
Either Cliff Jones lied, or was too deaf/senile to understand what was actually said to him, or Bale's dad lied, or Bale lied to his dad.
Either way, I took Cliff Jones' words in good faith.
I've held my hands up to that mistake.
The difference with Kane - and it is such a massive difference as to make the two situations like chalk and cheese - is that Kane, himself, has said that he intends to spend his career at Spurs.
Bale never said anything of the kind.
In your desperation to cling to any hope, at all, of winning our bet, you have taken Kane's words out of their proper context.
Kane's response to the question "Can you see yourself ever playing for Madrid?" was simply to say "I could never rule that out." It was answered in the same spirit as you or me not dismissing the possibility of there being life on another planet, if asked "Do you think that like could exist anywhere else in the Universe."
What did you expect him to say? Nah, fcuk Real! They're a bunch of cnuts!
Is that what you expected him to say?
Your desperation truly knows no bounds, Pix!
You accuse me of having a "small club mentality," yet here you are desperately hoping and wishing that Spurs lose their manager and their best players so that Arsenal don't look quite as ****e as they have become!
I'm embarrassed for you, mate. I truly am.
I only said that because Cliff Jones said he'd had words with Bale's dad, and therefore had it on good authority that Bale would be staying at Spurs.
Either Cliff Jones lied, or was too deaf/senile to understand what was actually said to him, or Bale's dad lied, or Bale lied to his dad.
Either way, I took Cliff Jones' words in good faith.
I've held my hands up to that mistake.
The difference with Kane - and it is such a massive difference as to make the two situations like chalk and cheese - is that Kane, himself, has said that he intends to spend his career at Spurs.
Bale never said anything of the kind.
In your desperation to cling to any hope, at all, of winning our bet, you have taken Kane's words out of their proper context.
Kane's response to the question "Can you see yourself ever playing for Madrid?" was simply to say "I could never rule that out." It was answered in the same spirit as you or me not dismissing the possibility of there being life on another planet, if asked "Do you think that like could exist anywhere else in the Universe."
What did you expect him to say? Nah, fcuk Real! They're a bunch of cnuts!
Is that what you expected him to say?
Your desperation truly knows no bounds, Pix!
You accuse me of having a "small club mentality," yet here you are desperately hoping and wishing that Spurs lose their manager and their best players so that Arsenal don't look quite as ****e as they have become!
I'm embarrassed for you, mate. I truly am.
Have you read back through the ****e you wrote ?
In your desperation to cling to any hope, at all, of winning our bet, you have taken Kane's words out of their proper context.
Kane's response to the question "Can you see yourself ever playing for Madrid?" was simply to say "I could never rule that out." It was answered in the same spirit as you or me not dismissing the possibility of there being life on another planet, if asked "Do you think that like could exist anywhere else in the Universe."
What did you expect him to say? Nah, fcuk Real! They're a bunch of cnuts!
Is that what you expected him to say?
