Mourinho must keep season alive to convince Kane to stay at Spurs

£150m-rated striker will make call in the summer Future could hinge on Champions League fate

Harry Kane will consider his Tottenham Hotspur future in the summer, with the club facing a battle to convince the striker he does not need to move to take his career to the next level.

Jose Mourinho, the head coach, and Daniel Levy, the chairman, are determined to keep Kane, 26. Mourinho admits that Spurs cannot overhaul the squad this summer.

Failure to qualify for the Champions League could leave Mourinho with as little as £50million to spend on new players, but he would be given incoming cash from sales.

It remains to be seen whether Mourinho could convince Kane that he can fulfil his ambitions at Spurs playing within the current squad, plus a few additions, if they again fail to win a trophy and miss out on the Champions League.

Levy will believe he can hold on to Kane, who has four years remaining on his contract and is valued by Spurs at more than £150 million, and may be prepared to offer the England captain a rise to his salary, which is up to £200,000 a week.

Kane is concentrating on trying to return from hamstring surgery, which has threatened to end his season, for the final games of the campaign and in time to play for England in this summer’s European Championship.

But Tottenham’s season could be over by the time Kane returns, with Spurs now entering a defining period in which they face Norwich City in the FA Cup fifth round tonight, ahead of Premier League games against Burnley and Manchester United, either side of their Champions League last-16 second leg against Red Bull Leipzig.

Trailing 1-0 in the Champions League, Tottenham’s best chance of finishing a turbulent season with silverware is the FA Cup, while they cannot afford another slip in the race for the top four.

Kane, who celebrates his 27th birthday this summer, has made it clear for more than a year that he wants to win club trophies and it would also be a massive blow to Tottenham’s hopes of satisfying him if they missed out on Champions League qualification. Back-toback defeats by Chelsea and