‘No progress’ as Spurs and Bayern meet over Kane, while Man Utd inch closer to Onana deal

History has been marked by many great meetings. The Yalta conference. The Last Supper. The time the Queen had tea with Paddington Bear. And now, footballing history takes its first step towards a new turn as Daniel Levy sits down with Bayern Munich’s chief executive to discuss Harry Kane.

Granted, Sky Sports’ report makes it sound like the meeting basically consisted of Levy politely shaking his head and muttering the word ‘nein’ a lot, and indeed “no meaningful progress was made”. So not quite Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt hammering out the fate of the Western world just yet.

Spurs remain hopeful of convincing Kane to hash out a new contract, but the Bavarian big boys are upping the pressure as they try to secure what would be a club record signing. And the rest of us? We just hope that somebody involved can agree something so we can all move on to the next endless transfer saga.

The 3AM Verdict: The dialogue is open, which means that Spurs really will consider a sale if they can’t get Kane to stay put. Unfortunately, this is all still set to rumble on almost indefinitely. Kane would win stuff in Munich, perhaps even the Champions League, so you can see the appeal – but it would make that expensive new house he’s build in London a bit of a waste of money, wouldn’t it? Anyway, we don’t have any more of an idea of how this one will pan out now than we did yesterday. Sorry.

Fred’s Turkish temptation

Meanwhile, over in Old Trafford, unwanted midfielder Fred has a new option on the table – Turkish giants Galatasaray are in the market for the Brazilian, while Fulham are also continuing to keep tabs. United’s asking price remains too high for either side, however, and apparently some Saudi Pro League sides are hovering too – and asking prices really aren’t much of an issue over there these days.

The Red Devils are also hopeful of getting their deal for Inter Milan goalkeeper André Onana over the line for the start of their USA tour. The flight is scheduled for next Wednesday, per Sky Sports, so that must indicate that the two clubs are getting pretty close to figuring out a fee.

The 3AM Verdict:Onana is a fabulous ‘keeper, and would do well to get that deal over the line rather than quibbling too hard over the price – mind you, if it doesn’t work out, David Raya hasn’t gone anywhere yet. Still, it looks like this one will be sorted soon. As for Fred? He never has quite managed to string together enough good games in a row to be worth a new contract, and with only one year left on his current deal it’s fair to assume that United will be keen to ship him on. If that asking price proves a problem, it will probably come down eventually.

Second Mitro bit rejected

Having previously implied that Saudi Arabia doesn’t have an equivalent phrase to “asking price”, there is one they’re struggling with – Al-Hilal have made an improved £30m bid for Aleksandr Mitrović only to have it rebuffed again.

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The Serbian striker remains keen to line his pockets with a big-money move but Fulham have him tied down to two more years of his deal and don’t seem keen to let their chief goalscorer go anywhere. As it stands, they’re essentially refusing to negotiate and it will be interesting to see just how high Al-Hilal will go.

The 3AM Verdict: Considering how much Saudi clubs seem willing to splash out on wages, it remains slightly puzzling that they’re coming in so low on a man who Fulham plainly don’t wish to sell under any circumstances. Crazy money will be required, so adding about £5m to their initial bid was never going to cut the mustard. The question is whether Mitrović will kick up a stink and try and force the move, or just grumpily accept another year in West London as a mere millionaire instead of becoming a really big millionaire.