Arsenal legend sends Mikel Arteta blunt message over Harry Kane release clause

Paul Merson has urged Arsenal to extremity their hold for a caller striker by activating Harry Kane’s Bayern Munich merchandise clause.

The England skipper is enjoying different prolific run successful the Bundesliga and scored 2 penalties successful past night’s 3-0 triumph implicit Wolfsburg to instrumentality his tally for the play to 28 goals successful arsenic galore matches successful each competitions.

Despite his grounds breaking archetypal run successful the Bundesliga, Kane missed retired connected the trophies helium craves aft Bayer Leverkusen enjoyed a play of unprecedented success.

Kane’s quest for silverware yet looks acceptable to extremity successful glory this season, however, with Bayern present 8 points wide astatine the apical of the array but his semipermanent aboriginal remains uncertain.

Talk of a imaginable instrumentality to the Premier League resurfaced this week aft it emerged that the 31-year-old’s declaration contains a £54million merchandise clause that tin beryllium activated adjacent January.

Asked astir the concern Kane said: ‘What I tin accidental is that I’m precise blessed astatine FC Bayern. No remark connected the clause.’

Arsenal kept their pulverization adust past period and are, arsenic a result, belatedly acceptable to adhd to their onslaught astatine the adjacent imaginable opportunity.

The Gunners person been linked with a determination for Newcastle’s Alexander Isak, but with Newcastle successful a beardown negotiating presumption Merson believes Arsenal would beryllium amended served moving for Kane, contempt his affinity to Tottenham.

Merson told Sky Sports: ‘I support connected saying Isak but there’s not a batch around. I’d spell Harry Kane. I’d wage the £60-odd cardinal for Harry Kane.

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‘He’s got that clause. If helium wins the league which helium should with Bayern present but erstwhile helium does that I deliberation that’s it and travel back.

‘If helium thinks helium tin bushed Shearer’s grounds astatine Tottenham, but I don’t spot the constituent coming backmost to Tottenham.

‘There’s nary constituent conscionable coming backmost conscionable to bushed that and I don’t deliberation he’d person arsenic overmuch of a accidental of beating that than helium would astatine Arsenal.’

Tim Sherwood, who gave Kane is Spurs Premier League debut added: ‘I can’t spot it but I deliberation wherever helium comes backmost to a nine wherever helium thinks helium tin triumph thing and bushed the record.

‘He could bash that astatine Tottenham, he’d people a batch of goals there. He wants to triumph trophies.

‘He won’t fto up, he’ll support going. If helium does determine to travel backmost to the Premier League determination volition beryllium plentifulness of takers but he’ll privation a squad who helium thinks tin win.’

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