Harry Kane race set for summer but will English clubs steal march on Real?

This January transfer window will be as frantic as any and an attempt to hijack Real Madrid’s expected move for football’s hottest property can’t be ruled out

The transfer window officially opens on Monday, though this one has been so eagerly awaited that some clubs have jumped the gun. It is slightly odd that this should happen in a season when all interest in the title race will most likely be over by the end of January but, perhaps because they feel the deal properly belongs to last summer, Liverpool went ahead early with the announcement that they had agreed to pay Southampton a record £75m for Virgil van Dijk.

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