Tottenham Hotspur chairman Daniel Levy is angry at Bayern Munich after their manager Thomas Tuchel contacted Harry Kane over a move to the Bundesliga club, according to Bild.
Spurs have already knocked back €70 million from the Germans for the England international striker and are prepared to reject €100m for him even though he has just 12 months left on his deal.
Bayern will need to pay more than €100m for the 29-year-old, and while they are unlikely to do so, Levy is expected to reject any bid for Kane as he is unwilling to sell his most-prized asset.
The Tottenham academy graduate is not the only player the tough negotiator has refused to sell to rivals, with Dimitar Berbatov and Luka Modric two other players that were left frustrated after the club supremo refused to do business with suitors for them.
It is not the first time Levy is rejecting a bid for Kane, with Manchester City seeing their £100m bid knocked back in the summer of 2021 despite the player’s desperation to join the Premier League champions.
While the striker failed to report to Tottenham’s training ground for pre-season preparations as when due that summer, he insisted he never refused to train, hinting that he was not planning on forcing a move.
Kane was not keen on jeopardising his relationship with the club and the supporters, but Berbatov had other ideas before his £31m move to Manchester United in the summer of 2008.
The Red Devils manager Alex Ferguson was quoted by newspapers as saying he expected to sign the Bulgarian (a claim he denied), leading Tottenham to submit a complaint to the Premier League and alleging that Man United had broken league rules.
Levy revealed that Berbatov forced his hands after refusing to play for Spurs in their opening Premier League games against Sunderland and Chelsea that August.
Modric also deployed a similar tactic in 2011 when Chelsea came calling for the Croatian midfielder, but Levy did not budge, rejecting their £22m and £27m bids.
The former Dinamo Zagreb announced that he would love to join Chelsea, insisting he had a “gentleman’s agreement” with Levy that the club would entertain offers from a “big club”.
Modric refused to play in the opening match of 2011-12 against Man United as a result, insisting his “head was not in the right place”, but Levy stood his ground, and not even a £40m bid from Chelsea on the last day of the transfer window was enough to change his mind.
Modric eventually joined Real Madrid in the summer of 2012 for £30m, but Spurs are hoping not to lose Kane for nothing next summer and have offered him a new and improved deal, and what the Englishman plans to do remains unknown.
He is unlikely to force an exit this summer, and while fans will not blame Levy if Kane leaves for free next summer, letting one of the best strikers of his generation run down his contract is far from being a wise financial decision.
