Harry Kane is expected to fly Germany on Friday to complete his transfer to Bayern Munich after the Bundesliga giants agreed an £86m deal with Tottenham Hotspur.
The move is set to leave Spurs without their record goalscorer, talisman and arguably greatest ever player on the eve of the new Premier League season which they begin away at Brentford on Sunday.
Bayern finally agreed the deal, which is reported to start at £86m and include up to £20m of add-ons, on Thursday after weeks of negotiations with Spurs chairman Daniel Levy.
But this transfer saga may not be done yet…
Is Harry Kane leaving Spurs?
It was reported on Thursday night that Kane was given permission to fly to Germany on Friday morning to undergo a medical before signing a four-year contract with the Bundesliga giants.
But reports early on Friday suggested the England captain had been told to change his plans while en route to Stansted Airport.
Tottenham are said to be trying to change the deal at the last minute, according to Sky Sports.
If Kane does complete his move, he is expected to be handed Bayern’s No 9 shirt.
Why does Kane want to leave?
Kane will leave the north London side as the Premier League’s second leading scorer, trailing 47 behind Alan Shearer’s record, having scored 213 goals and won three golden boots.
However, despite those personal achievements, the 30-year-old is yet to win a major trophy in his senior career.
Bayern have won the past 11 Bundesliga titles but suffered without a centre-forward last season, only overtaking rivals Borussia Dortmund at the table’s summit on a dramatic final day.
As well re-asserting their domestic dominance, Kane’s arrival is also expected to turn Bayern into one of the favourites for the Champions League.
Bayern have not won Europe’s top club competition since 2013.
What does this mean for Daniel Levy?
By Oliver Young-Myles
A Kane departure now would pile further pressure on Levy, even if he manages to extract £100m from Bayern for a 30-year-old with less than 12 months left on his contract.
The timing, just before the start of a new season, would be off, putting Postecoglou in an extremely difficult position at the start of his tenure. Postecoglou is clearly counting on using Kane having used him throughout pre-season.
It would also indicate a failure on Levy’s part to create a team capable of satisfying his star player’s ambitions. The past few seasons have been an abject waste of Kane – and Son Heung-min’s – peak years, for which Levy, the main decision-maker during that period, is in no small part responsible.
Kane has always said that he would rather win trophies at Spurs than elsewhere; moving away to fulfill those aspirations would be a damning indictment of Levy and others’ inability to make that a realistic proposition.
Read Oliver’s full analysis here
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