Alan Shearer says Tottenham has given Harry Kane enough reasons to leave and he urges the England captain to find a team where he can win trophies.
Kane has been loyal to Spurs his entire career, despite their failure to win trophies.
They have come close on several occasions, like reaching the finals of the Champions League in 2019 and the Carabao Cup in this campaign.
However, they lost both finals and they will not be in the Champions League next season unless something extraordinary happens.
Kane faces spending the entirety of his career at the club and winning no trophies, but he can leave them in the summer and have a trophy-laden last few years as an active footballer.
He has been linked with a move to teams like Manchester United and Real Madrid, and Shearer admits that if he was in the Englishman’s shoes, he would leave.
He says they failed to show up for him in the Carabao Cup final and again in their 3-1 loss to Leeds United at the weekend.
Shearer said on Match of the Day via Sun Sports: “When I left Blackburn, I had a season after we won the title and we were nowhere near winning the title.
“That sort of made my mind up as I then wanted to go on and try and do things.
“So if Harry wants an excuse, then Tottenham and that team are giving him one.”
Shearer concluded: “They didn’t show up for the cup final and they didn’t show up [against Leeds].
“If I was in his position, I’d go and look elsewhere to try and win trophies.”
Anywhere but the EPL.
Shearer went back home to his boyhood club Harry is already there
Cavani signed a 1 year extension. Utd might not be a s desperate for Kane this summer at look at Sancho this year and Haaland (if still available) next year. Does that now restrict who goes to buy kane and what they maybe willing to bid?
Try talksh1te !
Ings would make a dent in that number.
I think if I were in his position I would also be looking to go elsewhere and win trophies, it is clear as the nose on his face that it aint gonna happen in these parts.
Go on Harry, go to Manchester and win something. Who could blame you!
I don’t pay much attention to him he’s just so boring, part of the charmed circle.
Agreed
I’m saying the board need to change their ways, I don’t think it will happen but I live in hope. If they don’t then they need to get out of our club, again I don’t think that will happen either but I live in hope.
Shearer might be right about this but there again he might be wrong. Harry Kane is not Alan Shearer and it might just be that he is motivated by different things, some of which may have nothing or little to do with football believe it or not. There is other stuff going on in all our lives after all. With regard to the two games mentioned I thought Harry Kane played in both as well as in the Champions League final and so was a part of those teams which did not perform well at all and was one of eleven or so players who totally failed to impress. I don’t mind listening to Shearer pontificate on this and that with his pursed lips and steely stare but there is something underwhelming about his sense of certainty which inclines me to take this latest pronouncement with a pinch of the proverbial salt.
So you are saying Harry should trust levy and the board. I would not trust them with a field of dead grass.
All your suggestions are sensible but I can’t see them happening. All the expertise that Levy shows in business /property matters just flies out the window when it comes to football matters.
Mourinho and the flurry of signings was done partly to show Harry Kane that Levy was serious about putting a team around him capable of winning the Premier League, Mourinho himself said he’d have Spurs challenging for the title within three years.
Almost two years into Mourinho’s reign, now ended, Levy has put Harry further away from winning anything. Harry has lost two precious years in a failed rebuild and now faces another rebuild, all to be achieved in the worst financial crisis faced not just by Tottenham but almost all clubs in the English football pyramid.
Even in these circumstances I’m still not convinced Harry will ask for a transfer. I can see Levy saying give us one more year Harry then you can go.
Alan Shearer has some cheek. He left Blackburn after winning the league to join Newcastle to win more trophies, yet never won a single thing with them! Something which he never seems to mention! He could have joined Man Utd to win everything or if he had stayed at Blackburn, would have at least won the league cup (ironically against us!)
20+ goals a season and he’s constantly injured or recovering from an injury, worth at least £150m but who would pay that in this market
Sit him down, give him a list of the deadwood we’re planning to sell, the players we’re planning to buy who the NEW MANAGER wants, along with a 2 and 5 year plan of action on how Spurs football team will get to the next level (winning trophies and competing in the UCL/PL year on year).
ENIC have clearly put in the hours and the planning to ensure that the business is run well (albeit with a ludicrous amount of debt), now is the time to show us that they have the capacity to run the footballing side of things carefully and professionally and not just taking punts on budget players and managers. I don’t think they will, but I live in hope.
If Kane still wants to go after hearing all that then who could blame him. The fallout from his sale is obviously going to have a huge impact and contingency plans should already be in place well in advance with suitable replacements and sensible transfers lined up to achieve the same 2 and 5 year plan in spite of losing our best player of the modern era.
All of this is basic stuff for a top tier football club but it’s been overlooked for years, managers have needed tools and supplies to plug the gaps in the squads but Levy keeps handing them chewing gum and a shrug of the shoulders. If you can’t run a football club then don’t own a football club in the first place.
IMO all the money in the world won’t replace irreplaceable guaranteed 20+goal a season Kane!!