Tottenham BAN German reporter who brandished a Bayern Munich shirt with Harry Kane’s name and No 9 on the back to boss Ange Postecoglou
Tottenham BAN German reporter waving a Bayern Munich shirt with Harry Kane’s name and No. 9 on the back to boss Ange Postecoglou
- Harry Kane is still linked with a summer move to Bayern Munich
- A reporter showed Ange Postecoglou a Bayern shirt with Kane’s name on it
- This angered Postecoglou and the club has banned the journalist from matches
Tottenham Hotspur have suspended the journalist who offered boss Ange Postecoglou a Bayern Munich shirt with Harry Kane’s name on it.
Spurs are currently in Thailand for the second leg of their pre-season tour that started in Australia and will soon head to Singapore.
Since joining from Celtic this summer, Postecoglou has already strengthened his squad with James Maddison, Manor Solomon, Guglielmo Vicario and Dejan Kulusevski, but the future of talisman Kane remains uncertain.
German champions Bayern have already seen two bids rejected for the England captain – who has just a year left – and are reportedly preparing to return with a third bid.
And during a press conference ahead of their pre-season match with Leicester City in Bangkok on Sunday, Max Schrader, a reporter for Germany’s BILD newspaper, pulled off the Kane stunt.
Tottenham have suspended the reporter (pictured) who handed boss Ange Postecoglou a Bayern Munich shirt with Harry Kane’s name and No. 9 on the back
The Spurs boss was furious at the stunt after being ambushed by BILD’s reporter
However, Postecoglou was unimpressed when Schrader waved a Bayern shirt with Kane’s name and the number nine on it.
“What does that look like?” laughed the journalist as he showed the new Spurs boss the Bayern shirt. “It looks pretty good, doesn’t it?”
An enraged Postecoglou raged, “I don’t know what you’re talking about. Did you have a good laugh? Very good. You’ve come a long way for that.’
The Australian recently admitted he was ‘unrelaxed’ about the Kane speculation with Bayern having already knocked back two bids.
Following Schrader’s actions, Spurs have now banned him from their press conferences and have withdrawn his accreditation from Leicester’s match.
After Sunday’s game, the Postecoglou side will face the Lion City Sailors in Singapore on Wednesday, before hosting Shakhtar Donetsk and then traveling to Barcelona to complete their pre-season schedule.
They will kick off their Premier League campaign with a trip to Brentford on Sunday 13 August, where they hope to bounce back from a chaotic and dismal campaign last season that saw them finish eighth, missing out on European football for the first time in 14 years.
Kane has been strongly linked with a move to Bundesliga champions Bayern this summer