Get the City transfer window latest, team news, match updates and analysis delivered straight to your inbox No Kane - City's gain? Harry Kane was absent from the Tottenham side to face Manchester City, for what manager Nuno Espirito Santo described as fitness reasons.
It seems he was never going to play, and any suggestions he could were a bluff. However, City will have been the happier of the two sides to see Kane missing.
Not only were they relieved of having to face last year's top scorer and top assister, they were also spared an afternoon where Kane's every movement would have been the focus.
They could crack on with the task in hand on the pitch, aided (on paper) by the absence of Spurs ' main threat. The directors in the posh
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