This article is part of Football FanCast’s Transfer Focus series, which provides opinion and analysis on recent transfer news…
Tottenham Hotspur have reportedly named their price for Harry Kane amid interest from Real Madrid, per El Desmarque.
What’s the word?
The Spanish outlet reports that the two clubs are in “advanced” talks over the signing of the England international.
Indeed, they even claim that Spurs have told Real that they will accept €120m (£102.8m) plus Karim Benzema in a swap deal.
However, president Florentino Perez is said to believe that the asking price is too high, while Spurs do not intend to match Benzema’s salary demands.
Absolute nonsense
Let’s get this out of the way: This is nonsensical.
Benzema is a superb striker and he has scored goals throughout his career, netting 233 in 480 games for Los Blancos, but he is also 31 and approaching his twilight years.
Kane is 26 and nearing his prime, plus he continues to score goals at club level. He has 10 in 15 outings already this season and 174 in total for Spurs.
And it’s impossible to imagine the club allowing him to head to the Bernabeu at a discounted rate in exchange for a veteran striker.
Kane is on a long-term contract and is tied to the north Londoners until 2024.
Spurs would surely be demanding more than £102.8m for a player who won the Golden Boot at the 2018 World Cup, such is the inflated nature of the transfer market.
The figures in this report simply do not make any sense. Transfermarkt value him at £135m and even that seems on the modest side considering Kane is perhaps the best centre-forward of his age group in the world.
The report claims that Perez will continue to negotiate until the summer; he shouldn’t be getting very far.
