Harry Kane is the one star at Tottenham Hotspur whom Daniel Levy can be sure he will never have to sell and as the clock ticks down to transfer deadline at 11pm on Thursday, the club’s leading striker says that they trust their famously parsimonious chairman to do his best work in these final hours.

Levy prefers to wait until the summer window’s frantic last hours to strike his best deals, with Jermain Defoe, Hugo Lloris, and Rafael Van der Vaart all arriving late in the window over the years as well as the likes of Moussa Sissoko, Ryan Nelsen and Louis Saha. It is a strategy that Levy prefers despite evidence that Spurs start the season badly as a consequence, and there could be more this time with deals for Ross Barkley, Serge Aurier and Juan Foyth.

Speaking this week at St George’s Park, the England striker, again without a goal in August, said that he would not be watching the final hours of deadline day, just as he had decided to give Match of the Day a miss on Saturday night after that draw with Burnley – “I was watching the golf”. He said that this transfer window had been “crazy”, although, as the man who claims he never even thinks of leaving Spurs, does not give it too much consideration.