'Shearer should be concerned' - Kane closes in on record

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Harry Kane celebrates scoring against Crystal Palace

Only Alan Shearer present stands successful Harry Kane's mode of Premier League history.

The Tottenham striker scored his 209th extremity successful a 1-0 triumph implicit Crystal Palace connected Saturday to surpass Manchester United and Everton fable Wayne Rooney and go the outright second-highest goalscorer successful the competition.

Remarkably, helium has reached that tally successful conscionable 317 appearances - 174 less games than it took Rooney to people 208.

Shearer's long-standing grounds of 260 goals, which has gone untouched since his status successful 2006, is present successful the 29-year-old England captain's sights.

Indeed, Palace manager Roy Hodgson, Kane's erstwhile England boss, said Shearer needs to beryllium "concerned".

"What helium has done for Tottenham has been enormous," Hodgson said of Kane, pursuing his side's constrictive decision successful northbound London.

"He is inactive a young man, helium inactive has a batch of shot successful beforehand of him and I'm beauteous definite that Alan [Shearer] needs to beryllium acrophobic astir his extremity grounds due to the fact that Harry volition beryllium breathing down his neck."

Hodgson added: "I deliberation the lone happening that could basal betwixt him and the grounds volition beryllium whether helium tin debar superior injury.

"Is helium going to beryllium capable to get 20, 30 matches a year? Is helium going to get assistance from his team-mates and play successful a bully squad - which is what helium has been playing in?

"If each those things instrumentality spot I expect him to interruption the record, absolutely."

Former Newcastle United and Blackburn Rovers guardant Shearer amassed his starring full implicit 441 games - a complaint of 0.59 goals per match.

Kane, having played 124 less games, has truthful acold averaged somewhat higher astatine 0.66 goals per crippled successful the Premier League.

"I privation to support scoring goals truthful to walk idiosyncratic similar Wayne Rooney, 1 of the champion players successful this country, is simply a peculiar feeling," Kane said.

On his player's achievement, Spurs interim manager Ryan Mason said: "Naturally, we'll each speech astir Harry's goals and helium volition proceed to people goals. We cognize that.

"But besides that elite mindset, that illustration that helium sets each day, it's large to beryllium around. When you person radical similar that they animate you to beryllium better.

"We worth him truthful overmuch astatine this shot club."

Moving supra Rooney was not Kane's lone landmark connected Saturday.

Playing the shot wide to Pedro Porro earlier gathering the wing-back's transverse astatine the acold post, helium overtook Duncan Ferguson to go the archetypal subordinate to people 10 headed goals successful a azygous Premier League campaign.

It was besides his 100th location extremity successful the Premier League - making him conscionable the 4th subordinate to scope that tally for a azygous nine aft Rooney (101 for Manchester United), Sergio Aguero (106 for Manchester City) and Thierry Henry (120 for Arsenal).

It besides cannot beryllium understated that his 26 goals successful 35 league games successful 2022-23 - his third-highest tally successful a azygous run - has travel during a turbulent play for Tottenham, which featured the extremity of Antonio Conte's tenure and the aboriginal departure of interim brag Cristian Stellini.

Just however highly Spurs worth their club-record goalscorer is expected to beryllium examined this summer, erstwhile Kane volition participate the last 12 months of his contract.

Amid involvement from Manchester City 2 years ago, Spurs president Daniel Levy refused to participate negotiations contempt Kane's content that he had a gentleman's agreement to leave. It has been wide reported that Manchester United are 1 nine readying to trial Levy's resoluteness this clip around.

But successful a important play for Tottenham, who indispensable besides cautiously determine the club's adjacent imperishable manager, Saturday's triumph offered the latest reminder of however urgently the nine indispensable person its talisman to stay.

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