Southgate 'not concerned' over Kane's future & 'no downside' going to Bayern
Gareth Southgate has insisted that he sees 'no downside' to Harry Kane leaving Tottenham for Bayern Munich this summer.
The England captain's future is up in the air, with the Bundesliga giants desperate to sign the striker, who has one year left on his Tottenham deal.
No agreement has been reached between the two clubs and the transfer saga could rumble on for much of the remainder of the summer transfer window.
Southgate though is not concerned where Kane will play his football next season, and used Jude Bellingham as an example of how a footballer can benefit from playing abroad.
He told talkSPORT: 'It doesn't concern me because wherever he is he's an outstanding player who will have a good season and score goals.
'It's more of a dilemma for the player, the club, what do they do financially? He's at a certain point of his contract where can you afford not to take the money or can you afford to lose the player?
'You want the best players in the league if you can if you're a fan of the Premier League.
'I mean Jude (Bellingham) has gone to Real Madrid. The pressure of playing at a club like that where you have to win every week and you're playing with those outstanding players.
'You're having to mature by living abroad as he has at Dortmund. I don't see a downside in that.
'We’ve got a few more going abroad now to Italy, to Germany, now to Spain. So I think that’s good for their individual development and they’ve got their own careers and so England is always a consequence of what they do with their clubs in the end.
“It’s not for me to dictate where they go, where they play. We’ll assess where they are. We won’t rule people out. We’ve never ruled anybody out because of the league they play in. We rule them out on the comparison
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