Manchester United are reluctant to become embroiled in a saga with Tottenham over Harry Kane despite Erik ten Hag's wish to sign the striker.
Sources say United do not want to get involved in Spurs chairman Daniel Levy's games, such is his propensity to drag out negotiations for deals involving Tottenham players.
Manchester City failed with their efforts to buy Kane in the summer of 2021 and it was not until August 25 that Kane confirmed he would be staying at Spurs. Also read: Signing Kane would be a coup with caveats Spurs were confident of keeping Kane all summer and City could not justify the outlay on Kane as well as the £100million signing of Jack Grealish.
United have not signed anyone from Tottenham since Dimitar Berbatov joined for a then-club record £30.75m on transfer deadline day in 2008.