Daniel Levy recently suggested that Tottenham Hotspur would prefer to turn to their academy rather than spend big money.
Harry Kane has suggested that Daniel Levy’s recent comments regarding Tottenham’s preference to use the academy rather than spend big money in the transfer market will have an extremely positive impact on the club’s youngsters, the Daily Mail reports.
Spurs are the only Premier League side not to complete a signing this summer, prompting some supporters to worry that the side’s chances of building on the promise that they have shown in the past two years have been harmed by the lack of activity.
Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy
Levy responded to those doubts by insisting that Tottenham’s remit was to, ideally, look to the academy before switching their attention to the transfer market, and Kane has backed that philosophy.
“It helps them to hear that,” he said, as reported by the Mail.
“It would have helped me to have that confidence from the chairman, the belief from him that they don’t need to buy other players which has happened so often in the English game now.
“It’s the perfect situation. If that’s what he said, then the young lads are there to make a chance and do the best they can.”
Of course, Kane is arguably the perfect example of how the academy can provide better results than spending large amounts of money on more established talent.
It was seemingly the struggles of big money signing Roberto Soldado that led to Kane gradually receiving more opportunities in the first-team, and he took that opportunity with both hands, subsequently establishing himself as one of the finest strikers in the Premier League.
And if Kane’s emergence does not inspire the next generation coming through at Spurs, then surely Levy’s comments that they should be the priority will.
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