This is what’s now known as ‘the Harry Kane question’. Should he stay at Spurs for the lurve or move somewhere else for success. Somewhere like… Manchester United!!! You simply can’t get ‘bigger’ than that But… but… if he’s moving ‘to win things’, which all the world’s media feel he should, if nothing else, to give them something to write about and speculate upon, then can Man U. guarantee silverware? Like really? He can lose cup finals at Spurs. The Mancs have won nothing in ages. Ok, not quite as much ‘nothing’ as Spurs and slightly less ‘ages’. But people tend to forget the barren years, when there was no Matt Busby, no Alex Ferguson, and Man U. were pretty average for long periods of time. Times like… right now.

Or he could go to possibly the only team in the world who are as big/bigger than Man U; Real Madrid. They love an old striker in Madrid but their current one is leaving to go chase the oil money in Saudi (I haven’t read his contract because I lost track of all the zeros), so now they want Harry too. A bidding war will ensue. And Real will win because they’re quite happy to bankrupt the entire city of Madrid to buy a player, they have done that so many times before. Financial Fair Play rules are suspended as you approach the Spanish capital. As they are in certain parts of Manchester and around Paris. Newcastle have now requested a suspension too.

But I don’t care! Because we’re actually talking to a manager! With a view to ‘buying him’!! Though you don’t get an Amazon returns policy with managers. Nothing’s certain yet but talks have begun with Ange Postecoglou. Oh. He’s the manager of Celtic. They’re a football club somewhere up north in the third world. He’s an Aussie. Which sounds a bit ‘Ted Lasso’ but wait; he’s a great manager. He took Celtic, 6 years ago, from a team who always win every single trophy that Scotland can bash out of zinc, every single year, brushing aside all who come before them, and turned them into a winning team! And that’s not easy. Ok, it may seem easy because other than Rangers, there is simply no competition north of the border to Celtic’s yearly ‘parade’, which they call ‘the league’. But heh, beggars can’t be choosers and with the transfer window coming and no manager and no director of football, Spurs aren’t looking too clever.

So I’m hoping for Ange. Because there is literally no-one else on the planet prepared to even talk about taking a job widely regarded as ‘toxic’.

Happy Monday

A xxxx