FC Barcelona haven’t forgotten about Bayern Munich striker Harry Kane as a possible Plan B alternative to Julian Alvarez according to SPORT.
After signing left winger Anthony Gordon before the weekend, Barça are now all in on Alvarez.
A $116 million (€100 million) formal offer via email has already been presented to Atletico Madrid for the Argentine, who according to reports in his homeland has simultaneously given his word to the Catalans to join them on a five-year contract.
It isn’t believed that Atleti will accept that offer for a player they paid ($109.5 million) €94 million for from Manchester City in 2024, however.
The Argentine reports say that something between $140 million and $145.5 million (€120 and €125 million) will be required for a player that wants to move on after two trophyless seasons at the Metropolitano.
Meanwhile there is also the threat of moneyed Champions League winner Paris Saint-Germain in the background, which could derail the operation altogether after reportedly agreeing to start formal negotiations with Atleti following the Budapest decider clinched on penalties at Arsenal’s expense on Saturday.
FC Barcelona haven’t forgotten about Harry Kane
As the Alvarez saga works itself out, Barcelona haven’t forgotten about genuine Ballon d’Or candidate Harry Kane, who’s shown himself to be a world class striker still at the peak of his powers aged 32 – and none more so than in the thrilling 5-4 Champions League semifinal first leg loss to PSG for Bayern in late April.
Akin to Alvarez, Kane offers the attack of any team he stars for with so much more than a goalscoring threat given the quality of his link-up play and passing.
He nets far more often too, with an astonishing 61 goals in 51 appearances in 2025/2026 putting him in line to succeed former Barça winger Ousmane Dembele as the world’s greatest player in France Football’s eyes perhaps on the basis of how England fare at the World Cup.
If Barça can’t land Alvarez, Kane is a genuine Plan B. He could replicate the Robert Lewandowski operation from Bayern in 2022, by leaving Bavaria to become a modern day legend in Catalonia as an athlete still in elite shape in his 30s given how seriously he’s taken his career.
While Lewandowski was a bargain at $58 million (€50 million), however, Kane will cost more than that.
Bayern honorary president Uli Hoeness recently roasted FC Barcelona in saying they have “no money” to land Kane. Simultaneously, SPORT’s David Bernabeu reports that an expired $76 million (€65 million) release clause the Englishman had not too long ago means the Germans will only start negotiating at $93 million (€80 million).
