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The Arsenal warning Tottenham should heed following Harry Kane's transfer ultimatum

Gary Lineker believes Harry Kane’s current situation at Tottenham is similar to one that arch-rivals Arsenal have been through.

During an interview on Instagram Live on Sunday afternoon, Kane said he could not commit to staying at Spurs for the rest of his career.

The forward is yet to win any silverware in his career, with his side not having won a trophy since 2008.

Although the north London club reached the Champions League final last season, this year has seen the club struggle and fall even further behind Europe's elite.

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And Lineker, who won the FA Cup with Spurs in 1991, can understand why Kane would want a different challenge and believes Spurs’ new ground has slowed down their development.

"Well it's understandable [that Kane may want to leave]," the Match of the Day host told talkSPORT on Monday morning.

"He's a top-class player, he's one of the best strikers in world football and there's bound to be a degree of frustration with certainly the recent progress of Spurs.

"It's not easy, we've seen it with Arsenal, when you build a ground it can kind of slow you down in terms of your development and that's possibly happening with Tottenham but he's just being very honest really.

"He's basically saying if they don't go on to win things, because every player wants to win things in their career, I didn't win too much myself, but it would be unthinkable for someone of Harry Kane's stature that he didn't win anything in his entire career.

"So that's understandable and you can't really criticise him too much for having that view.

"He's been there a long time at the club, he's been brilliant at the club, and he might well stay there.

"He might have to move to Leicester at some point to actually really challenge for honours."

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