Kane should not be ‘vilified’ after ‘badly handled’ summer, claims pundit

Tottenham Hotspur striker Harry Kane should not be “lambasted or vilified” by the club’s fans for trying to secure a move to Manchester City, according to Simon Jordan.

Kane was keen to leave Spurs this summer. He wanted his transfer complete before Euro 2020 got underway, but this was never a realistic ambition.

The forward said that his desire to win team trophies at club level led to his decision to push for an exit from Tottenham.

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Man City did show interest in Kane but this transfer was always going to be difficult to complete. Kane still has three years remaining on his contract at Spurs and they were demanding around £160m for him. 

In the end, a move did not come to fruition. The striker has come out and confirmed that he will stay at Spurs this season. 

Jordan has told talkSPORT that Kane should not be “lambasted” for what has gone on this summer:

“I think he has the right to want to leave a club, but it has to be on the terms that work for all parties.

“Now I think there’s some regrets that he’ll have. This so called ‘gentlemen’s agreement’ is laughable.

“You’re in the world of finance and business, you know what these contracts are worth to you, you know how much you get for them and you know how the football industry works.

“I don’t think its fair that he should be in any shape or form lambasted or vilified by Tottenham fans.

“He is actually, like everybody else that does a job for somebody else, able to move to a different career path in a different space and has he ever cheated Tottenham on the pitch? No, he has never cheated Tottenham on the pitch.

“He’s always been a model pro that went back and learnt his trade playing at Norwich and Leyton Orient and other football clubs, did all the things that a lot of these players won’t do and has become the pro that he has.

“Now the situation has been handled badly and he might have to take some ownership over that.”