Would it really be bad business if Spurs kept Harry Kane for another year?

This is not the easiest time to mount a defence of Daniel Levy. Not after yesterday. To some Tottenham Hotspur fans there never is a good time, because everything that is wrong with their club is placed at his door. And there is a lot wrong. Levy’s debut in this newspaper’s celebrated Rich List, albeit at joint 286th, is unlikely to help matters.

Yet there is one decision he has got consistently right for many years now, and he doesn’t get enough credit for it. Levy has kept Harry Kane. Some may argue that any chairman would have done that, or even that Tottenham may have lost out by not cashing in when the player was at his absolute peak, but there is scant evidence