How much Spurs wanted for Harry Kane when Burnley and Sean Dyche wanted him | OneFootball

Burnley made an attempt to sign Harry Kane from Tottenham Hotspur in the summer of 2014

Burnley almost signed Bayern Munich forward Harry Kane during their second Premier League stint.

Sean Dyche had just guided the Clarets to promotion to the top flight for the second time in the Premier League era, the first of two he would earn as manager at Turf Moor.

A second place finish in the Championship led to a 19th place finish in the first division, with the Lancashire outfit missing out on survival by five points.

Perhaps had the signing of Kane gone through then maybe he could’ve proved the difference with those five points.

Here we look at how much Tottenham Hotspur asked for when Burnley negotiated a deal to sign the England international in the summer of 2014…

Sean Dyche opens up on Harry Kane talks

Dyche has previously opened up on Burnley’s attempts to sign Kane over a decade ago, claiming that Spurs put a price tag of £6 to 7 million on the forward’s future.

However, the ex-Everton boss has suggested that the Clarets were only willing to pay a fraction of that, which ultimately scuppered any chance of completing the signing.

“When we first got into the Premier League, I remember phoning Tottenham about signing Harry,” said Dyche, via The Sun.

“I know it sounds mad but at the time he’d had a couple of loan spells that hadn’t worked out, like at Norwich.

“My mates at Millwall told me Harry had handled it very well, worked hard for the team, playing off the striker and linking play very well.

“I still knew people there and they all said he was a brilliant lad and was very professional, so all the boxes were ticked.

“After those reports and having met him myself, I thought, ‘Yep, you’re definitely the type of player for us’.

“In fact, around that time, I met him and his family randomly in Portugal.

“He said he wanted to give Tottenham a proper go but I gave Tim Sherwood a call to see if we could nick him.

“My board made the relevant phone calls but it soon became clear that at that time they were never going to give me the money.

“Tottenham wanted something like six or seven million, which doesn’t sound much now but at the time was a lot, especially for a club like us.

“We were prepared to pay two or three, but our board couldn’t go any higher.”

Burnley's top scorer during the 2014/15 campaign was Danny Ings, with the forward bagging 11 goals as the team suffered relegation straight back down to the Championship.

Harry Kane’s Championship struggles

By the summer of 2014, Kane had yet to break into the Tottenham Hotspur first team squad, spending time on loan with Leyton Orient, Millwall, Norwich City and Leicester City at this stage of his career.

During his stints in the Championship, the now 31-year-old bagged nine goals from 35 appearances, including seven with Dyche’s old club Millwall.

However, following Burnley’s failure to secure a deal for the striker, Kane finally made a significant breakthrough into Spurs’ first team plans under Mauricio Pochettino.

He appeared 10 times in the Premier League during the 2014/15 campaign, including six starts, scoring three times.