Tottenham have Harry Kane buy back clause

Let's go to the times then, gents, and this was a bit of a twist tonight. Levy, Kane has a buy-back clause, Spurs chairman revelation to fans about Bayern striker, while Ten Hag bemoans injury crisis as United head to Germany. What do you make of that, Martin? Yeah, it was very interesting to hear that. What's Harry Kane, 30-31? It's very difficult to predict what's going to happen in somebody's life, never mind their career, and what's going to happen to Tottenham and their manager and Bayern Munich and Harry Kane. The hope from Harry Kane's perspective is that for the next two or three years he's winning the Bundesliga and competing to win the Champions League. Whether at some point there's an emotional return to Tottenham Hotspur Stadium to try and get close to Alan Shearer's record, we wait and see. What I would say is the player and the club have gone in hugely different directions at the minute, Tottenham are playing a different style of football without that reliance upon one player to carry them, and at the same time Harry Kane is adapting to a different culture, a different football club. It was interesting to see a training shot, he'd done something wrong, he was getting flicks on his ears from all his teammates, which does suggest that he's settled in quite well. I don't think he would want to be coming back for two or three years, although he does have a young family of three or four children, so you never can tell in that sense. Tottenham have gone in a different direction, I recall a few years ago when Ian Rush went to Juventus and didn't do too well. Liverpool spent the money really well on Peter Beardsley, Ray Howard, John Aldridge and John Barnes, and were brilliant in his absence. When he came back it felt a bit like your time might have passed, this is an uncomfortable relationship, you're getting back together, although eventually he did go on to do well. In the short term I can't see it, it's maybe sensible from Tottenham because they perhaps don't want to see him come back sooner than expected, maybe he's in two years' time, he's a Bayern unit player, and then he signs for Man Utd or Manchester City or another Premier League rival. So it gives them first options I think, but I think it's something for a little bit down the line. OK, that's your take Rob. The quotes here from a Tottenham Hotspur fans forum at the stadium are taking place Tuesday night. He says there is a buyback clause, Levy said, he's always welcome back. Harry's a much-loved, valued member of the Spurs family, forever in our history. What's your take? As Martin's saying there, do you think perhaps the form of both parties suggests it won't be needed? Yeah, I think the moment's gone. Dare I say, this is exactly the sort of thing you drop into a fans forum because it makes everybody feel good and feel like they can dream. I mean, the reality is, yeah, it's real. Teddy Shearing did it and came back. But a buyback clause relies on the player, doesn't it? You can't force a player back. And Tottenham would always be in the market for Harry Kane, I guess, if he was available. It's not like they're barred from buying him. So it's just the kind of thing chairmen say to make fans feel a bit better when they've just sold their star asset for £100 million. That said, revenge Postacoglu and the way they're playing, they don't need too much window dressing at the moment. It's all going fine. I'm with Martin. They're sort of heading in different directions. Of course, it's not impossible. But Tottenham would have to be a good enough club that they're close to winning the Premier League in three years, four years' time for Harry to come back. And that's not been the case in the last 20 years. So it could happen in four years. But it wouldn't seem that likely. Okay. Well, let's get on to the Express as well. We'll stick with Harry Kane. His pre-match comments ahead of Bayern Munich against Manchester United. We'll pile on misery, says Kane. I think he just says he'll try and use the circumstances in their favour. It's a solid point there, isn't it, Martin? It is a good time to play Manchester United. You'd have to agree with that. I mean, still kind of perplexed that there wasn't a bigger push from Manchester United to sign Harry Kane to make them competitive. Fifteen years ago, what we're looking at, Berbatov, Tevez, Rooney, Ronaldo were Manchester United's front four. Now you've got a young lad called Hoyland that they've just signed. And you think that's so inferior to what they were. And you then perhaps say that's the same all over the pitch. They seem like they're going through a major wobble. Because last year, the home form was the thing that kept them going. Their away form against the top ten teams was awful. They won the League Cup. And perhaps that papered over a couple of cracks. I don't actually think they played that well that day. And I've seen it suggested that they haven't played very well since. It's a club, I think we've said before, that just doesn't seem to have direction. And there are problems wherever you look. You can perhaps look at Eric Ten Haag in terms of, is he signing the right players? Are they tactically developed in the way that they should be? That perhaps we thought they were going to last season. But at the same time, you're looking at a club that, training-wise, recruitment-wise, brand-wise, has fallen way, way, way behind all its rivals. And that's been borne out on the pitch at the minute. They kind of seem to be stumbling around. Some players aren't quite fit enough. Varane might return, but what is he, a 20, 25-game-a-season player? That's a lot to rely on him. Marcus Rashford seems to have dipped back to his form before the World Cup, which is a big blow to them. There's Bruno Fernandes leading them. There's just so many questions around that club at the minute. And obviously the ownership theme seems to have been put to one side for the time being, which doesn't help at all. At the minute, you don't see them getting... They looked like they were going to push for top four and stay there last season, whereas now you'd think other teams are starting to overtake them again. Absolutely. On that subject, though, Eric Ten Haag, pretty happy with who he's got, apparently. Rob Backpager, the son, no cane, no pain. Eric happy with Hoyland after losing out on Harry, references Rasmus specifically. Is that an unfair comparison, though, on the young striker? It is unfair, and I haven't seen the exact quotes, but, I mean, of course he'd prefer to have Harry Kane to Hoyland. That's not to be down on him. It's just obvious that to have an experienced striker who scores the goals that Harry Kane does in a Premier League would be the ideal striker for Manchester United to have, and he's the ideal guy to replace Lewandowski at Bayern Munich. I mean, it would be silly to say that, well, yeah, we'd prefer this guy. They obviously went for Hoyland because they either felt they weren't going to get Kane from Daniel Levine because of his record of not wanting to sell to English clubs, or they really couldn't stretch themselves that far. So, obviously, you've got to extenuate the positive, but, no, any team, even Manchester City, not that they're replacing Hoyland, but any team in the world would want Harry Kane.