Harry Kane is top transfer target for Manchester United as Louis van Gaal lines up £45m swoop for Tottenham striker

Harry Kane is the striker at the top of Manchester United’s list of transfer targets this summer. 

Louis van Gaal has identified a number of players in preparation for United’s return to the Champions League, with a forward, a right back, a centre half and a central midfielder on his radar.

He already has a winger in Memphis Depay but Kane, who became the first Spurs player since Gary Lineker to score 30 goals in a season, is the striker United’s manager wants despite the 21-year-old signing a five-and-a-half-year contract in February. 

Manchester United would expect to pay upwards of £45million for Kane, who scored on his England debut in March.