Harry Kane's proposed move to Manchester United this summer is ‘a no-brainer’.
That’s the verdict of Mirror Sport columnist Stan Collymore, the former Liverpool striker who was a British record transfer fee. Kane has again been linked with a move away from Tottenham after a miserable couple of weeks for the north London outfit, which have seen their hopes of winning any silverware again this season extinguished.
First, they crashed out of the FA Cup to Sheffield United and then out of the Champions League against AC Milan. And with Kane entering the final year of his contract at Spurs in the summer, rival clubs are circling.
Collymore, for whom Liverpool paid a record £8.5million in 1995 when they signed him from Nottingham Forest, said: “I can see Harry Kane having three — possibly four — options in the summer: Manchester United, Chelsea, Bayern Munich … and Manchester City.
"I’m just speculating with City because I’m starting to wonder if Real Madrid might come in with a £150million-plus offer for Erling Haaland that might tempt them to sell this summer or next. And I also wonder if any part of Haaland thinks he’s not getting the opportunities to showcase all his footballing talents, his swagger, at the Etihad.
“I know he’s scoring a shedload of goals but it’s conceivable that he wants to leave a legacy on the game of a swashbuckling player who had it all rather than just someone who could poke them in from close range. We’ll see on that one but if he did go then, comparatively, they could get Kane, who they have tried to get before, for next to nothing.
"Either way, after Tottenham’s Champions League exit confirmed another trophy-less season for Kane, I’m convinced it’s a no-brainer for him to move on and, if he does go somewhere, it will come down to his chances of winning silverware and the supply line at his new club.
“The obvious ones for me will be United, Chelsea and Bayern Munich. And if it was me I’d go to United because it’s Manchester United. I don’t think United resonate with modern players as much as they did with my generation, but I’m not sure Chelsea are too dissimilar size wise to Spurs. I know Chelsea fans will point to the European Cups and all the other trophies, and Spurs lack thereof.
“But Chelsea are a traditional B+ club, not an A like United, Liverpool, Barcelona, Real Madrid, Bayern, Juventus or AC Milan. If Liverpool or United knock on your door you have to go because you only usually get one opportunity. Don’t get me wrong, what a club Bayern is.
"And having played all his career in England, Kane might possibly say, ‘Okay, Bayern is Bayern, they’ve knocked PSG out of the Champions League, fantastic’. But if you take away the top three or four games they play a season, I don’t think it replicates the difficulty challenge that the Premier League does and Kane is a Premier League beast, a behemoth.”
