Harry Kane would subsequently hyperlink up with position version Cristiano Ronaldo by securing a transfer to Manchester United.
The 28-yr-antique has overtly heaped praise on one of all his footballing idols during his profession, even asking for the celebrity’s shirt when his Tottenham Hotspur met real Madrid within the Champions League.
Reflect football is familiar with that United are weighing up whether or not to swoop for Kane within the summertime window, with bitter opponents Manchester metropolis predicted to prioritize Erling Haaland.
And a move to antique Trafford should see the Britain captain partner with Ronaldo, who he labeled a “huge position version” following Tottenham’s hearty 1-1 draw on the Santiago Bernabeu in 2017.
“I requested for his blouse,” Kane discovered submit-match. “He is a large position version of mine, watching him while I was growing up.
“It is a pleasing shirt to get and frame. I gave him my shirt. I don’t know what he will do with it. We just started, ‘see you in multiple weeks’.”
nearly four years later and Kane, having mounted himself as one of the international’s qualities No.9s alongside the likes of Ronaldo, reiterated his preference to emulate the five-time Ballon d’Or winner.
“I have still been given so much more to give. I can produce better numbers than I am producing for the time being,” the Tottenham superstar declared on Gary Neville’s Sky sports podcast, The Overlap, in 2021.
“I’m now not afraid to mention, ‘I want to be the great’. I need to try to get to the extent Ronaldo and [Lionel] Messi were given to. it is my remaining purpose – to be winning trophies season in, season out, scoring 50, 60, 70 dreams season in, season out.
“The stress from myself is usually bigger than something all and sundry else can put on me.”
And it changed into only some days ago while Kane and Ronaldo remaining met at the pitch, with the latter coming out on top for the second time this term by scoring a sensational hat-trick at antique Trafford.
The 3-time most effective League Golden Boot winner did bag himself a penalty, though, briefly leveling the scores within the first 1/2.
Red Devils interim manager Ralf Rangnick has even admitted that his club has to be in the marketplace for a striker this summertime, a search that he’ll probably be a part of once he’s taking up his consultancy role at antique Trafford come to the stop of the season.
“That is obvious,” Rangnick these days informed newshounds while asked if United will quickly appear to feature a center-forward to their squad.
” Edison [Cavani]’ s settlement is going for walks out inside the summertime, and the club desires the excellent feasible center forward. That is an apparent one. I suppose everybody is aware of that.”
And given the possibility to be Ronaldo’s teammate, the answer for Kane could nicely be obvious too.
