SportBild have written an open letter to Bayern Munich chief Karl-Heinz Rummenigge telling him he’s enjoyed a ‘stroke of luck’ and could now make €150m from selling Robert Lewandowski to Real Madrid.
The reasoning is Harry Kane’s performance against Juventus. Tottenham’s star man failed to score at Wembley against the Turin club, and that has apparently killed any Real Madrid interest in him.
Raimund Hinko says there’s nothing which displeases Real Madrid more than a failure to produce on the biggest stage, and Harry Kane produced ‘nothing’ apart from a ‘long face’.
Solely down to that match, the Tottenham player ‘immediately disappeared from Real’s shopping list’, and now Lewandowski is first choice.
Of course, Tottenham fans don’t want Kane to be on Real Madrid’s list, but they probably also don’t want the striker to be so criticised because he failed to score in one game.
What makes the claims even stranger is that Hinko accepts Kane is among the best, but still insists that one match ended the chances of a Madrid transfer.
There’s of course no mention of Kane scoring in the first leg to lead Tottenham’s comeback.
Lewandowski may well be higher on Real Madrid’s list, but the reasoning is more likely to be Daniel Levy, and how difficult Spurs are to deal with, rather than a single match against Juventus.
The Polish striker is also thought to want a transfer, has changed agents to Pini Zahavi, and has been annoying some at Bayern this season.
Talking up Lewandowski to Real Madrid is understandable, doing that by talking down Kane is a whole new thing.
