With Champions League qualification becoming a smaller likelihood with every passing week while Spurs remain in this kind of form, it’s becoming more and more likely that Harry Kane will leave.
There are plenty of options that Spurs could take should the worst possible scenario happens, as Dane Scarlett could be promoted straight into the first team for regular football, or even Troy Parrott who hasn’t had a great year on-loan at Millwall and then Ipswich.
Kalajdzic's incredible header 🤯
Reyna's assist for Bellingham ✨
Haaland's dummy for Reus 😎
Knauff's brilliant winner 👏Stuttgart 2-3 Borussia Dortmund was some game 🍿 pic.twitter.com/xfAUqLd6oD
— GOAL (@goal) April 12, 2021
And if Kane leaves, it will leave the club with no senior strikers as Carlos Vinicius is unlikely to return on a permanent transfer due to the expensive price tag on him, and Spurs will be left to go into the transfer market for a replacement.
Spurs have already been linked with one Stuttgart forward already this year in the shape of Argentine Nicolas Gonzalez, and now we are reportedly looking at another – Austrian striker Sasa Kalajdzic.
Hjpefully he can elbow everyone and get away with it then, not his fault he's tall.
— Billy McGon (@BillyMcgon) April 13, 2021
The Austrian Kalajdzic has made the goal
His 14th of the season. 7th header https://t.co/eadoCQzMdC
— Jan Aage Fjørtoft 🇳🇴 (@JanAageFjortoft) April 10, 2021
Kalajdzic, 23, is a 6ft 7in old-fashioned number nine who is fantastic in the air, but also a very good finisher on the ground too, and he has scored 14 goals in the Bundesliga this season while starting just 17 times.
The Austrian is in brilliant form as well, scoring nine goals in his last ten league games for Stuttgart, averaging a rating of 7/10 across the entire Bundesliga season, despite making ten appearances from the bench.
He has been heavily linked with West Ham as well as Borussia Dortmund to replace Erling Haaland if the Norwegian leaves in the summer, but Kalajdzic has already admitted he favours a move to Liverpool.
Should the striker arrive in North London, Sergio Reguilon will be happy to know that there will be someone even better than Kane in the air for him to assist with his usually brilliant crosses.
From an almost career-ending injury to one of the breakout stars of the Bundesliga 🌟@VfB_int's two-metre tall Sasa Kalajdzic is a big deal in every sense of the word! 🙌🇦🇹 #VFB pic.twitter.com/iUL9HbuF99
— DW Sports (@dw_sports) April 8, 2021
The signing would also mean that Spurs could still pursue Paulo Dybala too should they still be interested in the summer, and the Juventus winger would also be a fantastic option to play to the side of Kalajdzic with Heung-min Son on the other.
The situation is far from ideal, but it is good to see more and more names being touted as potential replacements, and it shows that the club do have a plan for if the worst case scenario does indeed happen.