“Every major club wants a piece of Kai Havertz and that’s because he’s rare and will be worth the fuss,” recruitment expert David Webb tells The Independent.

His assessment on Bayer Leverkusen’s multi-faceted maestro is five years in the making, stretching back to his role as head of elite potential identification at Tottenham – and it is accurate.

Bayern Munich chairman, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, has already plotted the 20-year-old’s path to the Allianz Arena. Marco Reus has publicly revealed a mission to thwart that and guide him to Borussia Dortmund instead.

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