VEGA: YOU COULDN’T BLAME KANE IF HE WENT

RAMON VEGA is a Tottenham Hotspur rarity – a modern player who actually collected a winner’s medal during his time at White Hart Lane.

Despite playing in a Champions League final, Harry Kane hasn’t been so lucky.

Which is why Vega (right) believes the Spurs talisman faces the toughest decision of his career when this season is over.

Qualification for the Champions League now looks a distant ambition and that leaves

Kane facing a familiar dilemma of whether to devote his future to Spurs or chase trophies elsewhere.

Whichever he chooses, Vega believes he can’t lose.

“Listen, from a Spurs’ fans point of view you take the selfish view that you want him to stay,” says the former Swiss international, who was part of the Spurs side that won the League Cup in 1999.

“He’s the best striker in the world, one of the best finishers in modern history.

“From Harry Kane’s point of view, he’s a Spurs legend, he’ll always be a Spurs legend, but he needs to decide whether he’s going to stay at the club or go somewhere else and try and win some trophies.

“He can decide to not care about anything else and support the club but that’s a personal decision.

“’If he wants to have a vision of winning medals he has to go – he has to take the chance and go to a club that at least has the opportunity of winning major trophies.

“No-one can blame him if he makes the decision to go.

“For him it’s a no-lose situation. He has become one of the best players in the world at a club that isn’t winning trophies, and that’s almost unheard of.

“He should have a clear conscience if he goes. Yes, it will be disappointing for Spurs if he leaves but it’s up to him.

Whatever choice he makes, I think people need to accept it.”

While Kane’s future in north London looks increasingly uncertain, of greater concern are the financial implications of Spurs failing to qualify for the Champions League again this season.

Vega added: “If Spurs don’t qualify for the Champions League then they will fall back, that’s inevitable. Instead of being a club making it to the Champions League final, they’ll be a club way off the top four.”