Prolific Kane is ‘going nowhere’
POCHETTINO: HARRY A SPECIAL PLAYER FOR TOTTENHAM
Star sriker close to winning Golden Boot twice in a row.
Leicester
Mauricio Pochettino insists there is no chance Harry Kane will leave Tottenham after his “special” striker’s four-goal blitz in the 6-1 rout of Leicester.
Kane is odds on to finish as the Premier League’s top scorer for the second successive season thanks to his lethal display at the King Power Stadium on Thursday.
The England international now has 26 goals, putting him two ahead of Everton’s Romelu Lukaku with one game remaining in the race for the Golden Boot.
It was the kind of predatory performance that Pochettino believes further enhances Kane’s reputation as one of the world’s best finishers.
Kane’s fifth Premier League hat-trick in just over two years took him to 32 goals in all competitions this season, four more than he managed last term and one more than the 31 he bagged in the 2014/15 season.
The 23-year-old would surely have scored more than 40 if he hadn’t missed two chunks of this season with ankle injuries, and Pochettino spoke glowingly about Kane’s appetite for success.
“We feel so proud of Harry, to score four goals was fantastic,” Pochettino said.
“He was injured twice this season but he is so fresh now and he is trying to finish at the top.
“Harry’s a special player, he loves Tottenham. He means a lot for the team.
“I tell you always that he’s one of the best strikers in the world. His performances show that we are right.”
Kane can wrap up the Golden Boot by getting on the scoresheet again in Tottenham’s final game at Hull on Sunday and he is already hungry for more after his first professional four-goal haul.
“There has been a bit of a buildup on the race for the golden boot and I wanted at least one or two to put the pressure on but to get four is amazing,” Kane said.
“I’m now sitting at the top, but we go in with the same mentality, to make sure we win first and foremost and then score as many as I can.”
Second-placed Tottenham’s total of 83 points is a tally that would have been enough to win the title on eight previous occasions.
Spurs have won 11 of their last 12 league games. –