Harry Kane to Man City transfer takes fresh twist as Tottenham handed brutal possibility

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Tottenham Hotspur face the prospect of lining up opposite Harry Kane in the very first game of the new Premier League season, if Manchester City are able to sign the England captain this summer.

The Premier League fixture list was revealed on Wednesday morning, with Spurs set to host defending champions Man City at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in the standout fixture of the opening weekend.

That raises the very real prospect of Spurs fans returning to their home ground to see Kane line up for the opposition.

City have been heavily linked with a move for the Spurs striker, with last season’s Premier League top-scorer openly looking for a transfer.

And, with Pep Guardiola also looking to sign a centre-forward having let Sergio Aguero leave the club, Kane to City has been the dominant transfer story of the summer so far.

“I want to play the Champions League… I want to be playing in the biggest games,” Kane told Gary Neville last month.

“I’ve said before, I’d never say that I’d stay at Spurs for the rest of my career. I’d never say that I would leave Spurs.

“It’s a moment in my career where I have to reflect and see where I’m at. Ultimately it’s going to be down to me, how I feel and what’s going to be the best for me and my career.”

And the goalscorer, who has bagged 166 league goals for Spurs, also named Kevin De Bruyne as the player he would most like to play with in the Premier League, adding fuel to the Man City transfer rumours.

Spurs remain hopeful of keeping hold of the 27-year-old, with club chairman Daniel Levy ruling out any swap deals and believed to be asking for a minimum bid of £150million to even begin talks.

“I have said it many times and I will say it again – everything we do is in the long-term interests of the club,” Levy wrote in a letter to Spurs fans in the final month of last season.

“I have always been and will continue to be ambitious for our club and its fans.

“As a club we have been so focused on delivering the stadium and dealing with the impact of the pandemic, that I feel we lost sight of some key priorities and what’s truly in our DNA.”

Yet Tottenham, who are expected to announce Paulo Fonseca as manager later this week, have not won any trophies in Kane’s time at the club, and have their work cut out to persuade their star striker to stay.

“I mean he [Levy] might want to sell me,” Kane said last month.

“He might be thinking ‘If I could get £100m for you, then why not?’… do you know what I mean? I’m not going to be worth that for the next two or three years.”

Kane and his international teammates continue their Group D campaign on Friday evening against Scotland at Wembley following last Sunday’s 1-0 win over Croatia.

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