In The Money: Daniel Levy to bag millions at Tottenham as Harry Kane transfer revelation emerges
Tottenham could pocket millions due to fresh details emerging about an add-on included in the deal that took Harry Kane to Bayern Munich.
Kane, 30, joined the Bundesliga champions in August for roughly £95million (€100m). However, Spurs could still continue to profit from that deal.
German newspaper Abend Zeitung reported on Monday (20 November) that Bayern have also agreed to play two friendlies against the Premier League club.
It is understood that Tottenham can keep all the proceeds from the two games but as of now, it’s unclear where and when those matches will be held.
AZ reported that Bayern didn’t want to spend over €100million for Kane and the way they managed to whittle down Daniel Levy’s asking price for the striker was to add in these two friendlies.
It’s not the first time the Munich club has done that as they’ve regularly played friendlies against RB Leipzig, allowing them to keep the gate receipts, when signing their players.
It’s fair to assume that Spurs could play Bayern at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, which has a capacity of 62,850, according to the club’s official website.
As a game against them would see Kane return to North London for the first time to play against Tottenham, there’s a chance the game would come close to selling out.
In the summer just gone, Spurs played against Shakhtar Donetsk at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. Tickets for that game cost £25 for adults and £5 for under-18s. However, that match was a charity match so you would imagine that ticket prices for Spurs versus Bayern would be a lot higher.
Even still, if the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium was sold out at £25 a ticket, it would see the club rake in £1.5million in gate receipts. Obviously, there would be two games so if that was to happen twice, Levy would be pocketing £3million for the London club – and that’s only for the tickets.
Another possibility is that the games are played in Munich. The Allianz Arena has a capacity of 75,000 so if the ticket prices were similar and the game sold out, it would bring in gate receipts of roughly £1.8million per game.
However, if one or both of the games was played in Germany, it would probably be less likely to sell out due to the difficulty of Spurs fans getting over there. But it would mean that Tottenham would save money on stadium running costs like electricity, water, matchday staff and so on.
There’s also scope for the games to be played outside of Europe, potentially on a pre-season tour of the USA or East Asia, where Spurs have a huge following.
Again, Tottenham would save on matchday costs, potentially grab more cash from overseas sponsors, exploit the long-term effects of a pre-season tour abroad and could also play in a bigger stadium than their own, thus generating more ticket income.
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