Graham Roberts has exclusively told Football FanCast that making Harry Kane captain could have forced him to stay at Tottenham.
Kane’s future at his boyhood club is more in doubt than ever before having missed training earlier this week, which has ramped up the pressure on Daniel Levy.
His absence comes just months after he told Tottenham he wants to leave the club after two years out of the Champions League and a failure to win major silverware despite coming close on several occasions.
Kane has been Spurs’ talisman ever since breaking into the first-team fold under Mauricio Pochettino midway through the 2014-2015 season, but has never been given the chance to become club captain.
Should Kane stay at the club, that could happen next summer with skipper Hugo Lloris out of contract and likely to depart.
But Roberts told Football FanCast that the 28-year-old should already wear the armband for both club and country:
“If I was Paratici or Nuno, I would make Harry Kane captain and I think that would have made it hard for him to leave the football club.
“That’s what they should have done two years ago, and then, how can you ask for a transfer if you’re a captain? So, I think they let themselves down a little bit there.”