On one level, it was a statement of the obvious from Harry Kane. The Tottenham striker sat down with Sky Sports before his team’s Premier League game at Brighton on Wednesday night and, among other things, said he wanted to play Champions League football.
Context, though, is everything. This is Kane, the 28-year-old England captain, who said the same thing leading up to last summer, when he attempted to leave a club that could not offer him action in Europe’s elite competition for one that certainly could – and plenty else, besides.
