Who says this is a priority? We can work on several transfers at the same time, I have no doubt we are working on priority signings, striker etc(most probably Kane) at the same time.
Because we’ve got no money, so you’d assume we’d spend whatever we do have on the area we’re most desperate. Then when we come to buy Kane we aren’t left saying “bugger, we’ve spent all the budget on that average midfielder we only sort of needed!”
I didn’t sit through every game this season thinking ‘ah Jesus, if we just had mason mount we’d be fine’. I watched us spurn a million chances, score just once or twice if we’re lucky and hope the other team weren’t able to equalise late on.
So that brings us back to the conversation about whether we have money available. Obviously we have to get a striker and yes I'm sure we would love to get Kane all things being equal. But there is no guarantee that Levy will firstly even let Kane go, let alone do it before the last day of the transfer window in order to drive the price up to the absolute maximum. We could chuck everything we have at Levy, and he'd still say no until the last day just in case we're desperate enough to find some more.
Instead we've been presented with an opportunity to buy from a club that really needs to sell in order to make FFP for a start, and then to finance some of their own purchases which also include a striker. Plus other clubs are sniffing around Mount and are in a position to bid early and secure a deal. Perhaps we have to do the deal that is available to us now, and then work out a deal later in the summer for a striker.
If Kane isn’t a goer then Osimhen has to be. We don’t score enough goals, and I’d even argue we don’t just need one striker but two. Unless we’ve been given unlimited Qatari funds but none of us know it yet, it makes no sense to spend most of our budget on Mason mount.
I’ve nothing against mount either btw. He’s decent, inoffensive and if it was for 20m I’d say yeah get it wrapped up early. But it’s a matter of opportunity cost.