Mauricio Pochettino needs his own Harry Kane at Chelsea - Mount exit can fund mega deal

For a long time in his managerial career, Mauricio Pochettino has been able to depend on star names to help him get out of sticky situations. At Tottenham, Harry Kane's goals helped keep Spurs in the fight for the top four every season and spearheaded their Champions League adventure in 2018-19 when they reached the final. But with Chelsea, the Argentine is lacking that figure of inspiration - and it is a problem Todd Boehly may be looking to resolve quickly.

Kane wrapped up a disappointing 2022-23 campaign for Spurs with a storming individual contribution of 30 goals in the Premier League - a total he has only bettered once in his career before, when he was working under Pochettino.

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Early in his career, Pochettino identified that Kane had the killer instinct needed to be a regular goalscorer at the highest level, describing the Tottenham talisman as a 'killer'.

"But from that goal on, it started to get easier. People started to understand what we were trying to do, where we wanted to take Tottenham. For me, that was a massive, key moment.

Victor Osimhen and Dusan Vlahovic have emerged as targets for the Blues, with a £50m bid reported to have been turned down for the latter by his club Juventus. And both would show their rivals they should be treated seriously as a threat again after finishing 12th in the Premier League last season.