The former West Ham United striker has compared Kane’s situation at Tottenham Hotspur to his own.
Former England striker Dean Ashton has warned Tottenham Hotspur over Harry Kane’s contract and made a shocking admission about his own negotiations with West Ham United.
The Sun reports that talks between Spurs and Kane’s representatives have been put on hold with the two parties refusing to budge on their demands.
Kane, who has top scored for Mauricio Pochettino’s side in each of the past two campaigns, is said to earn a weekly wage of £60,000 at White Hart Lane – £35,000 less than summer signing Moussa Sissoko.
The 23-year-old has risen through the ranks at his boyhood club – at which he is a fans favourite – and Ashton told Talksport on Monday that Tottenham are mistaken if they think he will stay for sentiment alone.
“Inwardly he’s probably super confident and thinks he’s the best; ‘I’m the top man here at Tottenham, me. I’m the one that’s going to score you goals, which is going to win you games, and therefore I should be paid the most at this club. Fact’,” he said. “If Moussa Sissoko comes in and earns £30,000 more that’s not going to sit well at all.
“Regardless of this ‘he’s one of our own’ and therefore he’s going to stay for loyalty; absolute rubbish. If they don’t make him the highest paid player at Tottenham, he’ll leave.”
Ashton, who quit football in 2009 due to injury, was once in a similar boat to Kane at West Ham United and says he also felt, inwardly, as though he was the top man at Upton Park.
He added: “I had it at West Ham when I came back from injury and Craig Bellamy was then in the club, Kieron Dyer was in the club, Freddie Ljungberg had come to the club. West Ham were paying big money, we all knew it as players. Once I got back to what I thought was my best and started to produce, that’s when we went in – I forget what I had left on my previous contract – to negotiate a new deal.
“(We said) so-and-so were interested in me, all of that gumpf that you hear all the time that’s fed in. We knew what people were on so were saying to West Ham: ‘I want to be paid the same as them, if not a little bit more, and I want in the contract that if anyone else comes in that they don’t supersede me’, and we got that into a new contract.”
Tottenham host West Ham United at White Hart Lane in the Premier League this Saturday.
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