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Tottenham Hotspur have no interest in selling star striker Harry Kane amid Real Madrid rumours

Kane appeared to leave the door open to one day playing abroad while on international duty with England, but Spurs have confirmed they have no interest in selling him

Thursday 05 October 2017 08:31 BST

There is little chance of Tottenham losing Kane (Getty)

Tottenham Hotspur have made it clear that have absolutely no intention of selling Harry Kane, amid reports from Europe claiming that Real Madrid are a bid for the player.

Kane, who has won the Premier League’s Golden Boot for the past two seasons, has started this campaign in similarly superb form with 11 goals in his first nine matches in all competitions.

He has been particularly lethal in the Champions League, scoring twice against Borussia Dortmund and netting a hat-trick away to APOEL, leading to speculation that Real Madrid were preparing a move for the player.

But Spurs have no intention of selling their star player, with a source telling The Independent that there was no chance of Kane leaving the club.

The speculation comes after Kane admitted for the first time that he has not ruled out playing abroad one day, while on international duty with England.

“I would never say no,” he replied, when asked about the recent round of speculation. “I would never say yes. I think in football, you never know and you never rule out anything. It is not something that I definitely want to do but it could happen. You just never know.

“Like you said, at the moment, I am very happy where I am here – that is all that matters. We will see what happens, but for now that is all I am focusing on.”

Where does Kane rank among the Premier League's young goalscorers?

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Where does Kane rank among the Premier League's young goalscorers?

Kane's competition

Harry Kane loves to follow his stats and, at the age of 24 years and 59 days, he had 82 Premier League goals to his name. But where does that put him in a ranking of strikers by the number of Premier League goals they had scored by that specific age?

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Where does Kane rank among the Premier League's young goalscorers?

Emile Heskey, Leicester City, 57 goals

Another player whose teenage physicality made him an imposing striker for Martin O’Neill’s Leicester City, he scored plenty of goals before making his big money move to Liverpool.

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Where does Kane rank among the Premier League's young goalscorers?

Matt Le Tissier, Southampton, 65 goals (includes old First Division goals)

Another, like Shearer, whose goals in the old First Division before 1992 have seen him included in this list, Le Tissier was a brilliant individual and a loyal one-club man who never won the team medals his talent deserved.

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Where does Kane rank among the Premier League's young goalscorers?

Andy Cole, Newcastle United and Manchester United, 70 goals

Most known for his role in the Manchester United treble-winning side, Cole was a brilliant striker at Newcastle United before he went to Old Trafford, a star of the Kevin Keegan team before the arrival of Alan Shearer.

Where does Kane rank among the Premier League's young goalscorers?

Alan Shearer, Southampton and Blackburn, 77 goals (includes old First Division goals)

The man Kane is most often compared to, Shearer was behind where Kane is now at his age, although he showed remarkable consistency and has the current Premier League goalscoring record of 260, and by a distance.

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Where does Kane rank among the Premier League's young goalscorers?

Cristiano Ronaldo, Manchester United, 81 goals

It says something that Kane has more Premier League goals than Ronaldo did at the same age, given how good he was in his last three years at Manchester United. But since then Ronaldo has gone onto another level entirely, and with even more success.

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Where does Kane rank among the Premier League's young goalscorers?

Harry Kane, Tottenham, 82 goals

Dispelled early doubters to become Mauricio Pochettino’s main man, winning consecutive Golden Boot trophies and already looking, like Lukaku, as if he will push beyond 100 and towards 200 Premier League goals soon enough.

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Where does Kane rank among the Premier League's young goalscorers?

Romelu Lukaku, Chelsea, West Bromwich Albion and Everton, 85 goals

Very slightly older than Harry Kane, Lukaku is just ahead of him in terms of Premier League goals, having proved himself at West Brom and Everton despite not quite making it at Chelsea.

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Where does Kane rank among the Premier League's young goalscorers?

Wayne Rooney, Everton and Manchester United, 91 goals

Arrived in senior football as a bullish 16-year-old at Everton and then enjoyed remarkable success there and at Manchester United, starting a brilliant career that is still going.

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Where does Kane rank among the Premier League's young goalscorers?

Robbie Fowler, Liverpool, 106 goals

Another Liverpool wonderkid, Fowler was the much-loved goalscoring hero a few years before Owen, and similarly he played his best football in his early 20s. His career stagnated after moves to Leeds United and Manchester City.

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Where does Kane rank among the Premier League's young goalscorers?

Michael Owen, Liverpool, 111 goals

No-one has scored more Premier League goals by this age than Owen, who was a teenage prodigy for Liverpool in the late 1990s and won the Ballon d’Or – as Kane would dearly love to – in 2001. Like many on this list he peaked in his early 20s and was not the same player after.

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His comments prompted a raft of new stories in Thursday’s backpages claiming that Kane was open to a move away, but the forward has always been unequivocal about his commitment to the club and also spoke at length about how happy he is at Tottenham.

Kane will captain England against Slovenia and picked the brain of Alan Shearer ahead of the match, after the veteran striker visited Gareth Southgate’s side ahead of their final World Cup qualifiers.

He made a beeline for Sir Bobby Charlton at St George's Park as England's training pitch was renamed in his honour on Monday and picked the brain of Alan Shearer the following day.

Kane will lead England against Slovenia (Getty)

“It was great - great to hear from him,” Kane said.

“I think the lads were attached to him telling the stories not just about England but about his whole career, what he'd come through, the ups and downs along the way.

“We spoke about penalties, we spoke about a lot of stuff.

“It was just great to have an England legend, really, coming, giving his experience and what he's been through.”

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