Tottenham forward Harry Kane will leave the club next year if they fail to win a trophy in that time, Premier League all-time top-scorer Alan Shearer has warned.
Kane is yet to lift
silverware in his career despite an eye-catching goalscoring record for both
club and country.
The England captain
has not played since January due to a serious hamstring injury and was on the
losing side as Tottenham lost to Liverpool in last season’s Champions League
final.
That is the closest
the 26-year-old has come to major honours and Shearer feels it may be time to
move on if that does not change in the coming months.
“My guess is, if he doesn’t win anything in the next 12 months then he has to leave,” Shearer told the Match of the Day: Top 10 podcast.
“He’ll do another
year, I think, and if nothing comes in terms of trophies, then he’ll be off.”
Shearer sits at the
top of the Premier League scoring charts with 260 goals.
Asked if Kane,
currently on 136 goals, could one day overtake his tally, the former Blackburn
and Newcastle striker said: “It depends on his fitness, where he is and what
success he’s had at whatever club he’s at – whether that’s at Spurs or
somewhere else.
“It’s going to be
hard for him. He’s on 136 and there’s a lot of ‘ifs’ being asked – if he stays
fit or if he stays in the Premier League. It’s going to be tough, but it’s
going to go one day.”
Kane has said he is
on track to be fit when the Premier League returns, urging people to “stay safe”
during the coronavirus crisis.
He has been
sidelined since suffering a torn hamstring tendon in Tottenham’s New Year’s Day
defeat at Southampton.