Kane to Man United? It’s probably the right move... Spurs are Europa level now

WOULD Harry Kane be a good fit for Manchester United?

Yes, 100 per cent.

He’s an out-and-out goalscorer who can score two-yard tap-ins or 30-yard thunderbolts, and can play with his back to goal, bringing others into the game and creating opportunities for them.

So, it’s a no-brainer for United to try to sign him.

But if they think they will just have a clear run at the Tottenham striker, they are very much mistaken.

I listened to Kane’s interview with Jamie Redknapp a couple of weeks ago and you could hear from the comments he made that there’s a bit of frustration.

But the notion Spurs will sell for around £200million, but not to a domestic rival, is interesting as well because that suggests chairman Daniel Levy is trying to play up interest from the continent’s big boys.

And the only clubs with the clout really to compete with Manchester United or Manchester City in England are Real Madrid and Barcelona.

Those four clubs will have money whatever the weather, and Levy’s comments left me wondering if he was laying out the path ahead by saying, ‘OK Harry, you can go. But it’s going to be the Spanish capital or Catalonia rather than Manchester’.

We would see the mother of all bidding wars if that is to be the case, and I can honestly see Kane going to Real ahead of United, in the same way we saw Gareth Bale move to the Bernabeu seven years ago.

The only hope Ole Gunnar Solskjaer really has of selling Old Trafford as a primary destination for Kane is if he tells him, ‘We’re not just going to bring you in, Harry, we’re going to bring in

Jadon Sancho as well to supply you and maybe a couple of other players too’.

If Sancho (left) didn’t materialise, then I wouldn’t be at all surprised to see Kane taking the No.9 shirt from Karim Benzema at Real, with the Frenchman then heading to the Premier League.

Some people will ask if United would be a step up from Spurs and they are right to do so.

If we’d been having this conversation 12 to 18 months ago, I’d be saying he should hedge his bets and stay in north London. But Spurs look as if they are reverting back to being a Europa League-level club rather than a Champions League one.

And if Kane goes, that’s only going to be exacerbated.

If I were Kane, I’d be looking at the situation and saying, ‘At Spurs, who have I got to provide me? Tanguy Ndombele, who may be on his way? Christian Eriksen has gone.

‘At United, I could have Sancho, Anthony Martial, Marcus Rashford and Daniel James alongside me, and all of those guys can help me get to 30 goals a season’.

They have pace, power and youth to provide him with all the back-up he needs. And while I’d still say Solskjaer needs a Roy Keane or Patrick Vieira-type as his No.1 priority, those selling points will put them in a very good position to tempt Kane.