England manager Gareth Southgate has discussed the future of Harry Kane and admits he sees ‘no downside’ to a potential move to Bayern Munich.
Tottenham have rejected two bids from the Bundesliga champions for Kane, though Bayern remain determined to sign the 30-year-old and are prepared to break their transfer record to sign the forward.
Bayern’s third bid is understood to be worth around €100m (£86.4m) for Kane, who has entered the final season of his contract at Spurs.
Southgate has given his view on the future of the England captain and has used international team-mate Jude Bellingham as an example of how English players can benefit from moves abroad.
“It doesn’t concern me because wherever he is he is an outstanding player and he will have a good season and score a load of goals. It is more of a dilemma for the player and club,” Southgate told talkSPORT.
“What do they do financially? He’s at a certain point in his contract where can you afford not to take the money or afford to lose the player? That is the difficult thing for the people running the club.
“You want the best players in the league if you can if you’re a fan of the Premier League.
“I mean Jude (Bellingham) has gone to Real Madrid. The pressure of playing at a club like that where you have to win every week and you’re playing with those outstanding players.
“You’re having to mature by living abroad as he has at Dortmund. I don’t see a downside in that.
“We’ve got a few more going abroad now to Italy, to Germany, now to Spain. So I think that’s good for their individual development and they’ve got their own careers and so England is always a consequence of what they do with their clubs in the end.
“It’s not for me to dictate where they go, where they play. We’ll assess where they are. We won’t rule people out. We’ve never ruled anybody out because of the league they play in. We rule them out on the comparison with the other players in their positions.”
