Your Tottenham Hotspur morning digest on Tuesday, May 23.
Relegation warning
Former Tottenham midfielder Jamie O'Hara has claimed that the Lillywhites could be battling relegation next season if star striker Harry Kane leaves this summer.
Speaking on talkSPORT, O'hara said: "Well look, obviously we all hope that he sticks around and signs a new contract. Because Laura, without Harry Kane, I seriously think we could be fighting relegation next season.
"We are that bad without him. We have been solely dependent on Harry Kane to score us goals and do stuff for us.
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"And I think the lack of ambition that we’ve shown and the players that we’ve signed that haven’t been good enough, if he leaves, we are in big, big, trouble."
Daniel Levy talks
Spurs chairman Daniel Levy has held talks with betting experts as he considered huge changes to the club's recruitment strategy.
That is according to the Telegraph, who claim that Spurs are keen to implement a data-driven system similar to that of Brentford and Brighton. Levy has publicly admitted that the north Londoners need to improve in this department and he is said to have been in dialogue with betting experts regarding the possibility of utilising a model to analyse and assess players performing to high levels in so-called smaller leagues
Read the full story here.
Mason's Kane message
Tottenham interim manager Ryan Mason has dismissed the idea that Harry Kane waving to fans was a farewell gesture after the England captain scored in the last home game of the season against Brentford on Saturday.
Mason, who isn't out of the running for the head coach role himself, addressed this, saying: "He waves at the crowd every season. I saw him waving two years ago and you guys [reporters] were convinced he was leaving. He was just thanking the fans as he does every season."
Read more here.
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