Former Tottenham player Mido has said that Harry Kane should start in the Champions League final if fit, and that his Tottenham teammates would want that as well.
Kane hasn’t played since limping out of the quarter-final of the Champions League against Man City back in April and is racing to be fit for the biggest game of his career.
Talking on the Alan Brazil Sports Breakfast Show (talkSPORT, Weds, 9am) Mido said, “I think it’s a risk to start him, but Pochettino has to go for it.
“There’s no one even close to him at the club. With all due respect to Llorente he’s nowhere near the level of Kane and for me Pochettino should play him. He has to make sure he’s ready from a medical point of view.
“I think Harry really, really wants to play. It’s the most important game in Tottenham’s history. Would it upset the players? No, no. he’s the star of the team. If I was a Tottenham player I would want him to start.”
OPINION
Kane’s Tottenham teammates might want him to start but we’ll guarantee that the player who misses out won’t feel the same. It’s the biggest game of every player’s club career and someone will be gutted to be left on the bench if Kane is fit and if Mauricio Pochettino starts him. We think it will be between Dele Alli and Lucas Moura, and we can’t see Alli being dropped. That means that the player who single-handedly got Tottenham to the final, with a hat-trick in the second-half of the game against Ajax, could end up missing out on the final. That would be incredibly harsh but we can’t really see any alternative. Kane’s return would be a massive boost to the team but it would also be a big risk, with the striker desperately short of match fitness. He hasn’t played since the end of April and as well as the risk of rustiness, Pochettino will have to weigh up the risk of further and more serious injury. Kane himself will obviously want to play – he always does, and this is the biggest game of his life so far.