Daniel Levy wanted to sell Harry Kane to Leicester for £600,000!

Former Tottenham supervisor Tim Sherwood has informed William Hill’s new podcast, Up Entrance with Simon Jordan, that earlier than Harry Kane absolutely broke by at Spurs, Chairman Daniel Levy was ready to promote him to Leicester Metropolis for £600,000. 

Sherwood appeared on William Hill’s Up Entrance with Simon Jordan, a brand new podcast hosted by the previous Crystal Palace proprietor who speaks to sports activities stars and celebrities and challenges their opinions while scrutinising their careers. Hediscussed Kane’s breakthrough into the Spurs crew and Levy and sporting director Franco Baldini’s opposition to it: “I made a decision after a few weeks that it was the suitable time to throw him into the firing line. One Friday I walked off the coaching pitch and informed Harry [Kane] that he was going to start out the sport tomorrow and he checked out me as if to say ‘yeah, about time’, and I preferred that about him.

“As quickly as I bought inside Franco Baldini, the technical director, came visiting to me and mentioned ‘the chairman desires to have a chat with you’. So we sit down within the workplace and Daniel Levy asks me ‘what’s the crew tomorrow?’, and I talked him by it and as quickly as I bought to the tip and mentioned Harry Kane he immediately mentioned ‘not Roberto Soldado or [Emmanuel] Adebayor?’ He’d by no means requested me for the crew earlier than so he’s asking me as a result of he’s bought wind that Harry Kane is enjoying and he wished to query me. He mentioned that I used to be devaluing a participant [Soldado] that they’d paid £29 million for and I mentioned to him ‘it by no means even crossed my thoughts that I used to be devaluing, I need to win the soccer match, do you?’

“He proceeded to inform me that they didn’t assume Kane was Premier League commonplace, and I mentioned, ‘who thinks he’s not Premier League commonplace?’ and he mentioned ‘Franco.’

“Franco mentioned, making an inverted commas gesture, ‘we’re searching for Champions League gamers’, and that they need to let Harry go someplace else. They steered letting him go to Leicester as that they had bid £600,000 and I mentioned, ‘he’s enjoying tomorrow, so we’ll see how he does and take it from there’, and he got here into the crew and scored in his first three video games and by no means appeared again.

“If he would have informed me that I couldn’t play him I might have mentioned ‘effectively you go and stand within the dugout tomorrow then’, and Daniel is aware of I might have mentioned it.

“Harry Kane has at all times had potential, whether or not it’s dropping into the quantity 10 place or staying up and scoring targets because the quantity 9, his information of the sport was improbable and he just about had all the things, however sadly he saved getting loaned out. He wasn’t getting appreciated – he went to Millwall, Leyton Orient, Norwich and Leicester, and never a kind of managers mentioned he’d change into a Premier League participant.”

Spurs are a mid-table crew with out Kane

Talking extra typically about Harry Kane’s profession and future, Sherwood mentioned: “He desires to win, and he got here very shut below Mauricio Pochettino, reaching the Champions League remaining and a few League Cup finals, however they by no means crossed the road.

“The place would Tottenham be with out him? I’d recommend that this season they’d be mid-table. In the event that they removed him this summer season I’d recommend they’d end mid-table. He’s not going to be there ceaselessly and even when he stays there till he retires they’ve to start out trying to construct the membership with out Harry Kane, and so they’re not doing that for the time being.

“If I used to be Harry I’d have a severe sit down with Daniel Levy, which I do know he’s having, and resolve the place they need to go and once they need to make the choice. I believe he stays this summer season and leaves on a free on the finish of subsequent season when his contract expires. Why would he signal a brand new contract for an additional £100,000 every week when he can go away on a free and take his decide on the place he goes?

“Clearly he’s going to be 30 years of age quickly, however Harry Kane is likely one of the fittest gamers I’ve ever seen. There’s a false impression that he’s injured on a regular basis, however he’s hardly missed a recreation this 12 months and I believe he solely averages lacking round six video games per season. He’s an actual machine, a powerhouse, a mentality monster as Jurgen Klopp would say.

“In the long run he’ll go someplace the place he’ll win, and I’ll be delighted to see that. I believe there’s two actual choices. It’s unattainable that he goes to Arsenal, Chelsea possibly, and if he goes to Manchester United they’d be instantly second favourites to win the league behind Manchester Metropolis. He might even go to Newcastle and it will be the identical as a result of he’s a distinction maker, he scores 20+ targets each season within the Premier League each season.”

You’ll be able to watch the total episode right here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hoXI6Adt5E.