The Harry Kane transfer saga was reignited last night as the England captain admitted in an interview with Evening Standard that every individual award he wins isn’t worth as much unless he begins winning team trophies too, as speculation about him leaving Spurs continues to mount.
Kane, 27, won the London Player of the Year award at the London Football Awards last night, as he leads the Premier League goal scoring chart and has the most assists this season too.
While us fans love watching Kane grow as a player and continue to earn honours and awards, it comes with knowing that he can’t be happy with the lack of trophies from a team perspective, and he admitted that last night.
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“Individual awards are great, they are fantastic achievements,” Kane said.
“When I look back at the end of my career, I will go over it and take in a little bit more. The goal right now as a player is to win team trophies. As much as this [award] is great, I want to be winning the biggest prizes that there is to offer as a team and we are not quite doing that.
“It is one of those [situations], it is bittersweet. I would rather be winning team trophies and this award. It is what it is. I am proud to win it. It means it has been a good season on the pitch, so I have just got to try and continue what I am doing.
“Obviously the Willow Foundation [who the LFAs are in support of] do amazing work. So I am really happy to be taking it home.”
🗣 "It's been a disappointing season."
🏆 "I want to be winning the biggest prizes."Harry Kane reflects on #THFC's season so far and reveals his ambitions for the future…🔮 pic.twitter.com/R8jr1CsPM1
— Sky Sports News (@SkySportsNews) April 28, 2021
Clubs at the moment aren’t willing to meet the valuation of £150 million set by the club, and even though he seems like he would like to leave in search for trophies, right now it doesn’t seem possible.
“When you come to individual achievements, I think that is definitely right up there,” he said. “There have been so many great players over the years in the Premier League.
“You look at the names on the top 10, the top 20 and you think of how many goals and seasons they’ve played.
“For sure, if I finish my career as Premier League top goalscorer and, hopefully, England top goalscorer, that’d be incredible — but it wouldn’t feel as good if I didn’t have a lot of team trophies to go with that. If I didn’t have the Premier League or a European Championships to go with that.
THE WINNER OF THE #LFA21 PREMIER LEAGUE PLAYER OF THE YEAR IS…@HKane pic.twitter.com/HGJEuZalgN
— London Football Awards (@TheLFAOfficial) April 27, 2021
“From an individual point of view, of course that’s the end goal, to try and score as many goals as possible and be at the top of those charts. But, for sure, without winning the biggest trophies as a team, it wouldn’t feel as good.”
Following his goals away to Everton on Jose Mourinho’s last game in charge, the striker is now just 96 goals away from matching Alan Shearer’s record of 260 Premier League goals.
“Obviously being under 100 goals away now it feels like it is a little bit closer than maybe in the previous seasons,” Kane said.
“But that’s still a lot of goals to score over a few years or so. I am not too focused on it. I just try and take each season as they come.
This goal from Harry Kane is a thing of beauty 😻pic.twitter.com/IP9h0egapY
— GOAL (@goal) July 19, 2020
“We can have the conversation in maybe a couple of years’ time when we are hopefully a little bit closer.”
Spurs will be looking to bounce back from defeat this Sunday, as they host Championship-bound Sheffield United.