Tottenham Hotspur are linked with making a £60 million sale for Kyle Walker.
According to The Mirror, Tottenham Hotspur chairman Daniel Levy is demanding that Manchester City cough up £60 million for right-back Kyle Walker.
The 27-year-old has been one of Spurs’ best players in recent years and it remains to be seen whether the Sky Blues will stump up the money needed to prise him from London.
Should it happen then Tottenham would have a lot more money to play around with this summer.
But keeping him, even if City do bow to Levy’s demands, would be priceless – very cheeky, but priceless.
If Tottenham want to be one of the biggest clubs in Europe then they will have to start acting like it – and rejecting an offer of that scale would send a serious message with regards to their ambitions: we don’t sell our best players anymore.
Life in North London would also look a lot more appealing to their transfer targets if Levy was to do a u-turn on Walker and refuse to sell him.
Above all else, most players want to know that they are joining an ambitious football club, that they have a good chance of winning trophies if they sign up – and Tottenham could perfectly demonstrate their ever-increasing clout to the football world with such a rejection.
Plus, Walker is a hugely important player for Mauricio Pochettino’s side. They have only conceded 61 Premier League goals over the past two seasons, with the former Sheffield United man a key figure in statistically the best back-four in England.
Sure, £60 million is a lot of money and enough to give them a long list of potential replacements, but will they find a better player than Walker with it? Probably not, in the same way that £80 million did not buy them a better player than Gareth Bale.
The future is ever so bright at Spurs at the moment, but hanging on to the England international would be one giant leap forward and the football world will notice.
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