Kris Boyd told Super Sunday on Sky Sports that Paul Pogba got ‘absolutely slaughtered’ by the media for saying he wanted to leave Manchester United yet Harry Kane gets ‘praised’ for hinting at wanting to leave Tottenham to win trophies.
Sky presenter, Jeff Stelling, defended Kane by stating that he has been a ‘great’ servant to Tottenham.
Back in December 2020, Pogba’s outspoken agent, Mino Raiola, came out and stated that the midfielder was ‘unhappy’ at Old Trafford and he wants to leave, as quoted by the Guardian.
Whilst Kane’s agent hasn’t come out and said anything, he did play a round of golf with Gary Neville where he spoke about his future and his desire to win trophies, as posted on the Overlap’s official YouTube channel.
Ex-Scotland striker, Boyd, doesn’t understand why there has been a different reaction to the Kane and Pogba saga’s, as Stelling defended the Englishman’s actions.
“I don’t like the way the whole thing has been conducted,” said Boyd. “Walking around the Golf course, as the England captain, speaking about maybe wanting to move on. Do this and do that.
“For me, it leaves you open to speculation – and the other thing I am going to touch on is he gets a lot of praise for saying ‘Oh, I want to win trophies’.
“Paul Pogba got absolutely slaughtered two years ago saying he wanted to leave Man United, but Harry Kane’s getting praised for saying he wants to leave Spurs. It doesn’t make sense.”
Stelling responded and stated: “Kane has been at Tottenham a lot longer than Paul Pogba has been at Man United. And he is viewed in a very different way. He’s a great Tottenham servant, isn’t he?!”
In truth, if a Man United player played a round of golf with a TV pundit and spoke about his future then someone like Gary Neville would perhaps spew at that.
And whilst Pogba isn’t expected to leave Man United this summer, it’s going to take a lot to try and secure Kane’s services.
Daniel Levy isn’t going to make it easy, no matter what Kane does or doesn’t do.
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