Bayern Munich head coach Julian Nagelsmann spoke pre-match about the thorny problem of Harry Kane being so prohibitively expensive even though he is ready-made to score goals for fun in the Bundesliga.

Unfortunately for Rangers, the England captain chose Saturday’s friendly at Ibrox for the Walter Tull Memorial Cup to hammer home exactly what Nagelsmann was getting at.

Bayern were understood to be preparing a tilt at landing Kane in 2023.Now, reports in Germany are stating that they might just try to get him in as a replacement for Barcelona-bound Robert Lewandowski right now.

It is easy to see why. Even in a pre-season bounce game played at something short of full power, Kane’s eye of the tiger was there for all to see.

Home goalkeeper Allan McGregor, continuing to belie his 40 years, denied him in the first half while pulling off a rash of outstanding saves from a host of visiting stars.However, there was no stopping Kane when he found his range twice in a five-minute interval in the second period – and delivered the kind of finishes that screamed his top-level credentials from the rooftops to cancel out Antonio Colak’s 24th-minute opener.

Kane and his team-mates were presented with the Tull trophy – named in honour of the first black professional outfield player in UK football, who signed for Rangers in 1917 after previously playing for Spurs only to die at the second Battle of the Somme aged 29 before wearing the light blue – at time-up by former Ibrox and Lilywhites favourite Jermain Defoe.

You’d have to think, though, that any chance of collecting more meaningful silverware later in the season would hinge on keeping Kane in place.No matter how many replacements an exorbitant fee might be able to finance.

Spurs, fresh from a South Korean tour and keeping their big summer signings on the bench at the start, were bright from the off with Kane leading the line and the outstanding Dejan Kulusevski forcing the first of many sharp saves from McGregor at the near post after just five minutes.

However, Rangers settled nicely into a lively and competitive encounter and, after James Tavernier had bent a free-kick just wide from distance, Colak got himself on the scoresheet with a real goalhanger’s finish on 24 minutes.

Rabbi Matondo and Ryan Kent had been enterprising on both flanks and it was the Welsh internationalist who provided the spark for the opener.

He raced up the right at speed, asking questions of the backtracking Ryan Sessegnon, before delivering a low ball into the area.Tavernier was there to produce the deftest of flick-ons with what looked like the back of his heel and Colak moved into space to pounce from close-in with a low finish.

Spurs, mind you, should have equalised just a matter of seconds later from a retaliatory incursion up the field.

Son Heung-Min took the ball into space on the left and rolled a perfectly-weighted pass into the path of the unmarked Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg directly in front of goal.

The Dane showed a real lack of composure, though, and sclaffed his effort wide.His theatrical protests over McGregor supposedly touching the ball – and a corner not being given – did little to hide his own failings in the heat of the moment.

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