According to an inside source at Tottenham Hotspur, captain Harry Kane is working on a summer exit, with the England international keen to move on to a top-level club to match his ambition to win the Champion's League and the Ballon D'Or.

Spurs have been very poor this year. They were knocked out of the champions league by RB Leipzig. The German were superior to Jose Mourinho 's side, as they won 4-0 over two legs. Tottenham are 8th in the league, seven points behind Chelsea in fourth place and qualification to next season's Champions League is looking unlikely.

Former Manchester City midfielder Yaya Toure has insisted that Sadio Mane deserved to win the Ballon d’Or on the back of winning the Champions League title with Liverpool. The Senegal international has been an integral part of the Reds setup over the past three years and he contributed 26 goals en route to the Reds’ European success last term.

Speaking to reporters in Doha, Toure said that there are no better players than Mane at the moment in Africa and added that he should have won the Ballon d’Or crown after the Champions League glory, he told: “To be honest he [Mane] deserved to win the Ballon d’Or first. In Africa we don’t see any better players than him. Did you see the votes? Did you see what he did in the last year, how many goals he scored, what he achieved with Liverpool? For me it is a shame when a team wins this trophy [the Champions League] and the winner of the Ballon d’Or is not coming from there.”

Real Madrid star Sergio Ramos has said that Liverpool defender Virgil van Dijk deserves to win the Ballon d’Or title this year after helping his team win the Champions League title last season. The Netherlands international has been incredibly consistent with his performances at the heart of the defence since joining the Reds and he was recently named as the UEFA Player of the Year.

Speaking to Marca, Ramos said that the Ballon d’Or does not seem to be about Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo anymore. He added that there is the route for other players to win the coveted individual prize and Van Dijk would deserve the accolade based on the showing for the Merseyside giants last term.

Liverpool attacker Sadio Mane has said that Barcelona star Lionel Messi deserves the Ballon d’Or and he does not have to describe the qualities of the Argentina international. Messi came a distant fifth in the race for the coveted prize last year and that came as a surprise for many, given the attacker had helped the Blaugrana win a domestic League and Cup double.

He has not been able to replicate the feat during the recent campaign, where the Blaugrana only won the league title, but a large section of the footballing fraternity have touted him for the prestigious accolade this time around. Speaking in a press conference, Mane was asked whether he can win the Ballon d’Or ahead of Messi and he responded with a ‘No’ while saying: "I will recognise that he deserves to win it. For sure, everybody knows Messi, so I don't have to describe how good he is."

Liverpool defender Virgil van Dijk has said that he would be proud to win the Ballon d’Or this year, although the main focus remains on bagging more trophies with the Merseyside giants. The Netherlands international has been a revelation since making the switch to Anfield from Southampton last year and he was hugely influential towards the Reds’ Champions League title success last term.

The trophy ended the club’s seven-year wait for silverware and Van Dijk is focused on finding more success on the team scale rather than looking at individual honours, he told Sky Sports: “If people are talking about it – you can’t say it doesn’t do you something. But it’s a subject we don’t have any influence on. I can’t change anything right now other than get fit, stay fit and that’s the situation.