ust as Tottenham feared, this summer season already has the makings of one other Harry Kane switch saga.

Manchester United have a long-standing curiosity in Kane, who has entered the ultimate yr of his contract, whereas Spurs may quickly face an method from Real Madrid, who're trying to find a substitute for Karim Benzema.

Spurs are adamant that Kane won't be offered to a Premier League rival, opening the door to curiosity from Madrid, but there has long been reason to assume that Kane will not consider a move abroad.

Conventional knowledge dictates that Kane won't depart the Premier League till he has surpassed Alan Shearer because the competitors’s all-time main scorer, a milestone he has lengthy coveted and by no means been shy about discussing.

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Two years in the past, when Kane tried to power his method out of Spurs, he had little interest in a transfer abroad, partly as a result of Shearer’s file was nonetheless a way off. Today, Kane’s choice continues to be to stay in English soccer, however he can afford to be extra open-minded, given the trajectory of his profession.

Kane’s 30 Premier League targets this season (his joint most-prolific marketing campaign, regardless of Tottenham’s normal awfulness) moved him to 213 in complete, simply 47 wanting Shearer’s file of 260.

Since breaking into the Tottenham first workforce in 2014-15, Kane has averaged 23 League targets a season, so he successfully wants simply two extra years in England to overtake Shearer.

The Spurs ahead, who turns 30 subsequent month, is not only monitoring to interrupt the file, he's heading in the right direction to smash it.

In soccer, nothing needs to be taken with no consideration, however Kane has not had a critical damage in three and a half years, since beginning work with a brand new private physio, and he has by no means been fitter.

Widely considered the last word skilled, Kane may certainly hold enjoying till his mid- or late-thirties (barring one thing drastic and unexpected), and such is his fanatical pursuit of self-improvement, it might be silly to wager towards him persevering with to scale new heights over the following decade.

Some of his most comparable friends have solely received higher with age, together with Benzema, who loved 5 of his seven most-prolific seasons for Madrid after turning 30, and Robert Lewandowski.

Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi each continued to dominate nicely after their thirtieth birthdays, whereas Zlatan Ibrahimovic was nonetheless enjoying in Serie A on the ripe outdated age of 41.

If we make the affordable assumption that Kane may play on the high degree for not less than one other 5 - 6 years, he may conceivably be part of Madrid or one other main European membership this summer season, win trophies on the continent and nonetheless have sufficient time to return to the Premier League and break Shearer’s file.

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Clearly, it might be a danger, notably given the competitiveness of the English high flight, however it's one Kane can afford to take if he actually needs to depart Spurs this summer season or check himself in a special league.

Even if he does lose a bodily edge as he will get older, Kane is clever sufficient to maintain enjoying in a deeper position, as Teddy Sheringham and Wayne Rooney did, whereas he would certainly by no means lose his urge for food to maintain scoring whereas Shearer’s file stays on the road.

Kane could produce other causes for wanting to stay in England, together with a reluctance to uproot his younger household (his spouse, Kate, is at present pregnant with a fourth little one), however Shearer’s file want not be a deciding consider his pondering.

Many Spurs followers would see Kane becoming a member of Madrid this summer season because the least unhealthy final result, making certain he can scratch his itch for silverware with out becoming a member of a Premier League rival.

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Only essentially the most one-eyed supporters would begrudge him leaving, and a transfer to Europe’s main super-club wouldn't harm his legacy in the way in which becoming a member of Chelsea and even United on a free switch in summer season 2024 would.

If Spurs negotiated an enormous payment from Madrid and the choice of first refusal within the occasion he wished to return to England, everybody may ultimately win if Kane returns to his boyhood membership as a Spanish or European champion and breaks Shearer’s file.

Kane and Spurs could have totally different plans, however the England captain enjoying overseas and turning into the Premier League’s all-time top-scorer ought to not be thought-about mutually unique. He can simply do each.