DYCHE ROLLED ON KANE BID BUT NUMBERS DIDN’T ADD UP

SEAN DYCHE once failed in an attempt to sign Harry Kane for Burnley, as Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy priced the striker out of the move.

With Kane’s future once again coming under scrutiny as he nears the final year of his Spurs contract, Dyche has recalled how he was desperate to boost Burnley’s firepower in readiness for the Clarets’ return to the Premier League in 2014.

Dyche conducted his background checks after the teenage

Kane had spent loan spells with Leyton

Orient, Millwall,

Norwich and

Leicester.

But although the striker who has just become England’s record goalscorer ticked all the boxes, the numbers didn’t add up.

“Financially it was just too much,” said

Dyche, who will be hoping the Tottenham striker leaves his shooting boots at home when his

Everton team face the London outfit at Goodison Park tomorrow night.

“Harry had been on loan

at Norwich and Leicester. “Maybe those moves hadn’t gone as well as he’d wanted, but I knew a few of the lads at Millwall who knew Harry from his loan spell there when he was only about 18.

“Millwall is a tough place to play, especially for a young footballer, but I was told he’d handled it pretty well.

“I’d hoped Spurs would let us have him. But by then they had seen what he could do and the rest is history.

“We made a phone call. But although Burnley were in the Premier League, the numbers were just too big for us.

“The timing was wrong and so were the numbers.

“I was hoping we by SIMON MULLOCK

could be a stepping stone, but Tottenham made a great decision.”

Dyche (below) has faced Kane a number of times since and the pair have struck up a good relationship.

He added:

“A few years later,

I saw

Harry on

holiday in Portugal with his family and we struck up a bit of a rapport.

“He has been very generous in giving me a few shirts for charities that

I back.

“You just get a feel for people, whether they are footballers or not

– and Harry is a top player but also a top fella.

“Sometimes when your career isn’t quite where you want it to be, you have to hang on to your professionalism.

“Harry never wavered. Sometimes the quieter loans, the ones that don’t go as well as you’d expected, are ones you get the most out of.”

And while that may be the case, Dyche will hope to make sure Kane & Co get nothing from tomorrow.