Tottenham and Harry Kane are Relaxed About Future
Tottenham striker Harry Kane and his representatives have not begun formal talks for an extension, though they are not concerned about the England international’s future with Spurs.
As soon as word spread that Harry Kane was seeking to double his weekly wages from £60,000-a-week to £120,000-a-week, it wouldn’t have been a surprise to feel some slight doubt that a deal would happen.
Not because Kane would leave the club that he grew up rooting for — that’s not going to happen — but because of Daniel Levy’s insistence that players will only ever earn under £100,000 as their salary when playing for Tottenham.
Of course, this begs the question, what about Emmanuel Adebayor and Gareth Bale? Didn’t they both earn six-figures during their time with the north London club?
While it’s true that Adebayor was getting paid £100,000-a-week and Bale pocketed £150,000-a-week upon signing a new contract before he left for Real Madrid in the summer of 2013, according to Lyall Thomas of Sky Sports, Daniel Levy is reluctant to pay Harry Kane what he wants.
Though, he is willing to compromise by including incentive-based bonuses on a new deal (perhaps in an effort to balance out the club’s wage book).
If this happens for the 23-year-old, then it will have likely happened a few years ago when both Emmanuel Adebayor and Gareth Bale were on the team.
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Basically a rough example could be like this: Kane will earn a basic wage — most likely a flat rate that keeps him around the top earners on the squad (Hugo Lloris; £80,000-a-week) — and should he hit certain milestones, that will trigger the bonuses to kick in, a.k.a. more money.
It may or may not work, but if it does, it would kill two birds with one stone.
Levy will be able to keep his top players under the £100,000 salary (because of an increase in their wages) while giving them incentive-based bonuses throughout the term of a new contract. Bonuses that most likely must be met on a season-by-season basis.
On the surface, that looks like a win-win situation though it will only work for so long before players just want a flat rate of six-figures straight up and not have to deal with bonuses.
Especially if they can’t trigger them because of an injury, which is out of their hands.
Going back to Harry Kane’s situation, Lyall Thomas wrote on Sky Sports that both Tottenham and Kane agree that his current wages should be redone based on the 23-year-old’s performances thus far.
Although no formal talks have begun, Kane still has three-and-a-half years left on his current contract that he signed last February when he was still 21-years-old.
Since both sides’ relationship with the other remains in good shape, and Daniel Levy has already signed a number of key players back in September of this year, the Spurs chairman has shown that he is willing to renegotiate with players to have them stay with the north London club.
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Now, while paying £100,000 or more is a lot of money for Levy — even though that’s par for the course when it comes to keeping your top stars on the team — the fact that the 54-year-old has retained the core group of Mauricio Pochettino’s squad is a good sign that Daniel Levy will eventually find some way to keep that trend going.