With 10 goals and 8 assists in all competitions Harry Kane has long been no longer a wide striker • The Tottenham captain has become the best playmaker in England this season and seems to have never been closer to the level of Messi and Ronaldo • It's a shame he plays in the Europa League
Harry Kane.
Try to stop him now
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It's a little hard to pay attention to all the details at the start of the Premier League's crazy season, but one detail about Harry Kane screams to the skies.
The Tottenham striker, who has scored five goals and netted seven more, is involved in a goal on average every 37 minutes of play.
think about it.
With 12 goals in five rounds - the highest amount in history at this point in the season - Kane promises his team at least two goals in a game.
When you add five more goals in the Europa League, three of them courtesy of Muhammad Abu Fani's loins, you get a player who started the season with 10 goals and 8 assists in nine games.
"Porto" magazine chose him this week as the second best striker in the world today - ahead of Cristiano Ronaldo and after Robert Lewandowski - and it's hard to argue with the choice.
It's not just the exiles.
Kane has always been one of the deadliest finishers in the world, this season he has become a more complete, more diverse and much more dangerous player.
Many commentators have argued that such a thing would be impossible under Jose Mourinho's defensive tactics, but the new docu-series airing on Amazon teaches otherwise.
From the first moment the Portuguese manager saw Cain as the leader and sought to strengthen his position - "help him build his status" he said.
The captain explained that he wanted to reach the status of Messi and Ronaldo, and it seems that he was never as close to there as at this point in time.
He is creative, smart, sharp, does everything on the field.
His retreat to link positions is not a new thing - he has done the same for Pochettino - but the efficiency of the actions he takes is unprecedented.
When Harry meets Son
Kane is today making the best game in the league, with his collaboration with Yong Min Sun being at the Stockton-Hotel pick-and-roll level.
Against Southampton Kane cooked for the Korean four times in a memorable game, and already now he has equaled the amount of cooking from last season, and is only one away from his season record.
Kane, personally, is at his peak.
He managed to fill the space left by Christian Eriksen in the center of the field, and when you look at his heat map at the end of games, you realize that there is a striker here who does everything but wait in the extension area.
Mourinho never stops complimenting his star who "makes an amazing move and sends marvelous depth balls", and it seems that the Portuguese's requirements from the Englishman are not going to change anytime soon.
With Sun in great shape at the front and with the addition of Gareth Bale, who will soon start scorching the wings and waiting for those depth balls, Kane will have to keep dragging the Tottenham front on his back.
"He's getting close to an age that brings with him a lot of injuries, and he can't keep running deep and putting on the brakes," Jamie Krager analyzed the Tottenham striker's season opener.
"His place in the Champions League"
As part of this talk about Kane's transformation, there are quite a few who think she should include a team change as well.
According to them Kane does not stop improving and upgrading over time, but Tottenham is not the place where he can convert personal success into team success.
And for the record - despite the striker's miraculous ability, the Roosters only have 8 points in seventh place in the table.
On Saturday against West Ham, they wasted a pair and the captain's cooking and finished 3-3 after a defensive collapse in the last ten minutes.
"Right now he's the perfect package and he needs to play in the Champions League," stated former Roosters striker Darren Bennett;
"I instead give it a chance for just one more year."
Admittedly, there is something in Bennett's words.
Kane, 27, is breaking personal records, and still without a degree.
Jose Mourinho has managed to convince him that great things can be done together, and winning the Europa League seems like the most realistic option.
Tonight, against Las Vegas Lynch, Kane will try to continue his way to the top, hoping Tottenham will kindly join him.
