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MARTIN SAMUEL: Spending £200m on Harry Kane feels wrong in the current climate - a 25% surcharge on foreign transfers could restore competition to English football and stop the Manchester clubs plundering a weak market

Gary Neville is right. Clubs who have deferred or cut salaries should not be able to enter the transfer market until that money is repaid.

It seems only reasonable. That he also thinks Manchester United should be entertaining a bid for Harry Kane, however, reveals the problems football will have staying competitive in the post-coronavirus world.

United have not touched their players’ wages, so no problem there. There was an agreement to donate 30 per cent to the NHS, made prior to the Premier League captain’s charity initiative but that is not the same.