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Goodman exclusive: Postecoglou & Tottenham can handle Kane exit - but why leave?!

Don Goodman has questioned the motivations of Harry Kane over his potential move to Bayern Munich.

Former Wolves and Sunderland centre-forward Goodman believes the England captain would be giving up too much in leaving Tottenham for Bayern.

On behalf of OLBG, Goodman told Tribalfootball.com: "It's a difficult one as we sit here speaking now because there's still a substantial gap in valuation.

"The power lies with Harry Kane, I suspect without knowing him personally, he's the type of professional who will crack on and continue to score goals for Spurs. But then next summer he would be completely free to do whatever he wants. Clearly Spurs don't want him to go to another Premier League rival and understandably so.

"On the flip side of that, there needs to be some movement on their end because if they don't compromise a little bit then Spurs will get nothing next summer. That just seems crazy when you can somewhere in the region of £100 million, which is a lot for someone with a year left on his contract.

"Should Kane go to Bayern Munich, I don't know how I feel about it from his perspective, but he'll end up winning the Bundesliga. Will he win the Champions League? I'm not sure based on what we saw with Manchester City last season. It also hinders his chance to break the Premier League goal scoring record.

"There's an awful lot of reasons for him to not go to Bayern Munich in my eyes, but he might argue it's a better chance to win trophies."

On what Kane leaving would mean for Tottenham, Goodman insists it can be a positive for the club and manager Ange Postecoglou.

He continued, "In terms of what would happen with Spurs, they'd simply have to get on with it.

"Hopefully Ange Postecoglou will get all of the money to reinvest into his squad and he's got knowledge of a completely different market that Spurs are used to dealing with.

"He brought in a lot of Japanese players and players from abroad whilst at Celtic and he was very successful with that method.

"I like him a lot, he's going to be an excellent Premier League manager and I think the Spurs fans are going to enjoy what they see with or without Harry Kane.

"But clearly Spurs are going to be a better team with Kane in it."

Goodman, meanwhile, is confident Kane will be able to settle quickly at Bayern and in the Bundesliga. He sees Kane as the perfect replacement for Robert Lewandowski, who left Bayern for Barcelona a year ago.

He said: "I don't think Harry Kane is too dissimilar to Robert Lewandowski.

"They're both all-round outstanding and excellent number nines, so in such a dominant team I think he'd fit in very well and score an absolute hatful of goals.

"I don't think there's any problems or any reasons to doubt that Kane would be anything other than a roaring success at Bayern Munich.

"I think the question is whether it would be enough for him personally to be winning Bundesliga titles for two or three seasons.

"Only Harry Kane can answer that question, but from the outside looking in, you would think he'd want to break the Premier League record, but you can appreciate from Spurs' position that they wouldn't want him going to a Premier League rival."

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