Germany’s SportBild believe Real Madrid interest in Harry Kane is genuine, rather than something imagined by Don Balon and their cousins in the wilder reaches of the rumour mill.
Looking at Robert Lewandowski and his hopes of swapping Bayern Munich for the Spanish capital this summer, SportBild explain he’s up against some competition.
Real Madrid are said to have the Tottenham striker and Neymar ‘even higher on their internal rating list’ than Lewandowski, meaning it’s not taken as a given that an approach will even be made for the Polish international.
It’s got to be said, again, that the more serious Spanish sport media haven’t really been pushing the idea of Kane moving to Madrid. They like him, although there’s reservations about British players after failures in the past, but it’s assumed dealing with Tottenham, specifically Daniel Levy, would be too hard and Kane doesn’t want to move anyway.
But let’s assume SportBild are correct, and Madrid really do make a move for Kane. The recent situation regarding the striker claiming a goal which had initially been Christian Eriksen’s, and the subsequent mockery, and response to that has been very odd indeed.
There seems to have been an effort to get it out there that Kane isn’t taking the backlash very well. In the situation that he did consider a move to Real Madrid it wouldn’t be a surprise to see an attempt, even if futile, to make it look like he was being forced out by a hostile ‘build ’em up, knock ’em down’ attitude in England.
That’s just some wild speculation from us, and SportBild’s opinion may be nothing to worry about.
