The past week has been a reminder of the volatile status Harry Kane finds himself in.
At the beginning, he scored a winning goal against Manchester City and became the greatest Tottenham scorer of all time, after breaking Jimmy Greaves' record and setting the number at 267.
A few days later, against Leicester, he saw his defense collapse on the way to a defeat that brought the team to the ground.
Kane, with 19 goals this season in all competitions, bombards constantly, but his Roosters are only in fifth place and again the championship has escaped.
In fact, the only team titles that are still on the table for him this season are the FA Cup and the Champions League, where Milan awaits him tonight in the round of 16.
Kane has no tag team titles.
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He is 29 years old, and the closest he came to a joint title was the Champions League final, the European Championship final with England, the League Cup final and second place in the Premier League.
He is almost the ultimate man.
Most of the time it's really not his fault.
Shearer.
Kane will also overtake him in a few years, photo: Getty Images
He's doing his bit, as evidenced by nine consecutive seasons in which he scored more than 15 Premier League goals, five of them in which he exceeded 25 and one in which he stopped short of 30. Kane gives a lot personally, as a team he receives little.
Tottenham have yet to field a team to match the level of their formidable striker.
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have had times when we got close, there were times when we really didn't, but the facts are that Kane's contribution - no matter how great - is never enough.
Therefore, recently the striker began to entertain the thought that it might be worth leaving.
In the summer of 2021, he even informed the club of his desire to leave, he was left out of the squad at the start of the season, but in the end he stayed.
The popular opinion was that Tottenham needed to build a team good enough to convince the star to stay, but here, the team is not good enough - and he is still here.
And not only is he here, he is here as mentioned as Tottenham's new all-time top goalscorer.
And even though soccer is a team sport measured by team achievements, Kane's achievement is a reminder that even here there is enormous power in individual achievements.
Just this week the world stopped to salute LeBron James for breaking the record for points in the NBA regular season, and even though LeBron has championships and medals, the individual title has been given a place of honor.
The persistence, the maintenance of quality standards - these are all elements that deserve enormous appreciation.
LeBron.
There are personal titles that are eternal, photo: AFP
Shearer, behind you
LeBron did it for a long time and in a variety of teams, while Kane is in one team.
To persistence and consistency you can add loyalty, and all these are worth quite a bit.
"His records are his medals," said Alan Shearer this week, who is best suited to speak on the subject.
In the striker's wardrobe, he has won a championship with Blackburn, but this is the only title he won.
He has many near misses in a Newcastle shirt, but the number of goals he scored for the team - which made him the Premier League goalscorer - gave him greater status than he earned with that championship in a forgotten club.
"Maybe he doesn't win titles," added former player Martin Keown, "but his title will be to become the Premier League goalscorer of all time."
Kane is 60 goals away from Shearer's record, and at the rate of his conquests it is a matter of three seasons.
If he does, Kane will discover that this is no small statistical matter.
A personal achievement of this magnitude is something that remains even when the career is over, an eternal and exclusive stamp.
It is likely that Kane is interested in adding to this achievement some kind of trophy, a tangible title, and it can certainly still happen.
Meanwhile, he has already entered the history of his club, and this is glory in its most natural form.
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