{"id":615373,"date":"2022-07-29T02:57:43","date_gmt":"2022-07-29T06:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=615373"},"modified":"2022-07-29T02:57:43","modified_gmt":"2022-07-29T06:57:43","slug":"harry-kane-chelsea-tottenham-hotspur-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/07\/29\/harry-kane-chelsea-tottenham-hotspur-interest\/","title":{"rendered":"Fabrizio Romano: Chelsea Haven\u2019t Made Contact for \u2018World Class\u2019 29-Year-Old Striker as Hunt for Romelu Lukaku Replacement Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/07\/28\/thomas-tuchel-cesar-azpilicueta-barcelona\/\" target=\"_self\">Chelsea<\/a> have not made any contact with <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/07\/28\/sergio-reguilon-barcelona-transfer-chelsea\/\" target=\"_self\">Tottenham Hotspur<\/a> over the potential transfer of Harry Kane, confirms <a href=\"https:\/\/caughtoffside.substack.com\/p\/will-chelsea-pursue-harry-kane-cristiano#%C2%A7an-update-on-chelseas-interest-in-harry-kane\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fabrizio Romano<\/a>. Thomas Tuchel&#8217;s side are still looking to sign a striker after loaning <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/06\/30\/romelu-lukaku-returns-inter-milan\/\" target=\"_self\">Romelu Lukaku to Inter Milan<\/a> earlier this summer.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Happy 29th Birthday, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HKane?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@HKane<\/a>! \ud83c\udf82<\/p>\n<p>464 Games \ud83c\udfdf\ufe0f<br \/>73 Caps \ud83c\udff4\udb40\udc67\udb40\udc62\udb40\udc65\udb40\udc6e\udb40\udc67\udb40\udc7f<br \/>324 Goals \u26bd<br \/>89 Assists \ud83c\udfaf<\/p>\n<p>3 PL Golden Boots \ud83c\udfc6<br \/>WC Golden Boot \ud83c\udfc6<br \/>5 PL Team of the Year \ud83c\udfc6<\/p>\n<p>One of the best strikers in the world! \ud83d\udd25 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vVRHqiaP0Q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/vVRHqiaP0Q<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; SPORF (@Sporf) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Sporf\/status\/1552609820410347520?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 28, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Chelsea Suffer Blow in Harry Kane Transfer Interest<\/h2>\n<h3>Spurs Will Not Sanction Kane\u2019s Sale in Summer<\/h3>\n<p>The reason why the London giants have not even approached Spurs to enquire about their captain is that they are aware that he remains an &#8216;untouchable&#8217; part of the squad. Moreover, their CEO Daniel Levy won&#8217;t even think about selling one of his biggest stars to a direct Premier League rival.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/07\/27\/timo-werner-transfer-juventus\/\" target=\"_self\">Timo Werner Could Make Juventus Move<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A lot has changed for Kane&#8217;s own perception about staying with the North London side since he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.in\/football\/soccer-transfers\/story\/4388298\/harry-kane-informs-tottenham-he-wants-to-leave-this-summer-sources\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tried to orchestrate a move to Manchester City<\/a> last summer. He has been won over by manager Antonio Conte&#8217;s project and is happy to stay in order to help Spurs end their trophyless reign. The Italian head coach also labelled him as &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurosport.com\/football\/premier-league\/2021-2022\/world-class-tottenham-striker-harry-kane-is-not-normal-says-head-coach-antonio-conte_sto8871868\/story.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">world class<\/a>&#8216; last season, further solidifying their bond.<\/p>\n<h3>Chelsea Continue to Look for Romelu Lukaku Replacement<\/h3>\n<p>Despite signing <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/07\/06\/raheem-sterling-to-chelsea-nearing-completion\/\" target=\"_self\">Raheem Sterling from Manchester City earlier this summer,<\/a> Tuchel is still trying to sign a new striker to strengthen his front-line. The German manager does not consider the England international to be a direct replacement for Lukaku and the Blues are still looking for a quality goal-scorer to add more goals to the side.<\/p>\n<p>Romano adds in his report that Chelsea were interested in signing Erling Haaland in the summer before he completed his move to Manchester City. But because of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/14\/uk-government-imposes-sanctions-on-chelsea-fc-director-eugene-tenenbaum\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sanctions placed upon them because of their former owner Roman Abramovich<\/a> made it impossible for them to work on such a deal.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/07\/26\/chelsea-interest-denzel-dumfries\/\" target=\"_self\">Chelsea Show Interest in Inter Milan Defender Dumfries<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The London giants are still searching for potential options to bolster their attack after realising that the current core just isn&#8217;t good enough to help them compete for major trophies. However, they will not actively pursue a move for Kane after knowing his status and rest assured, the England captain will remain at Tottenham for at least this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea have not made any contact with Tottenham Hotspur over the potential transfer of Harry Kane, confirms Fabrizio Romano. Thomas Tuchel&#8217;s side are still looking to sign a striker after loaning Romelu Lukaku to Inter Milan earlier this summer. Happy 29th Birthday, @HKane! \ud83c\udf82 464 Games \ud83c\udfdf\ufe0f73 Caps \ud83c\udff4\udb40\udc67\udb40\udc62\udb40\udc65\udb40\udc6e\udb40\udc67\udb40\udc7f324 Goals \u26bd89 Assists \ud83c\udfaf 3 PL [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4218,"featured_media":615390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,2,3,7188,24],"tags":[8611,264,7466],"class_list":["post-615373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea","category-featured","category-premier-league","category-rumours","category-tottenham","tag-chelsea-transfer-rumours","tag-harry-kane","tag-tottenham-hotspur-transfer-rumours"],"modified_by":"Dale Ventham, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4218"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}