Tottenham would only consider selling Harry Kane to Real Madrid if he asked to leave, like Luka Modric and Gareth Bale did previously.

The striker has been linked with a move to the Liga giants after outscoring every player across Europe's top leagues in 2017, with 56 goals.

Real Madrid are reportedly open to offering a Spurs return to Bale, who left north London in 2013 a year after Modric made the same move, in any deal to bring Kane to Santiago Bernabeu.

Mauricio Pochettino, talking to Spanish outlet El Chiringuito de Jugones on December 19 in an interview broadcast on Wednesday, underlined that only a concerted effort from Kane would see him leave Spurs.

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"Being responsible for a club like Tottenham, I would say if Real Madrid came, we would tell them we do not want to sell him," Pochettino said. "He would stay here and he would have to understand.

He added: "If you look at it from a personal side, if the player asked to go like Modric or Bale, we would have to see but today that has not happened.

"I hope that Harry Kane will be here for many years and bring lots of goals and victories and win some titles, that's what we want."