Tue 10 November 2020, 16:17
Tottenham HotspurFor Jose Mourinho, Harry Kane is more than just goals.
The striker has racked up the milestones in the last week - 200 goals and 300 appearances for the Club and the latest, 150 goals in the Premier League with the winner at West Brom on Sunday. He’s only the 10th player to reach 150 goals in Premier League history, going back to the league’s inaugural season 1992/93.
Academy graduate, Club hero, ‘one of our own’, Harry is now part of an elite group of just three players to have scored 200-plus goals and 150-plus league goals for Spurs alongside all-time greats Jimmy Greaves (266 goals/220 in the league for us) and Bobby Smith (208/176).
For me, it's not one more goal or one less goal, it's about what he is as a player
But it’s what Harry brings to the table beyond goals that impresses Jose so much.
He said: “When you go to stats in relation to the strikers, I always say that the stats should be... how many goals the striker has scored, and what he did for his team in the matches where he didn't score.
“And many of the strikers in history would be an incredible number of goals that they score, plus zero.
“Harry Kane you have to say… this number of goals scored, this number of assists, this number of balls recovered, this number of duels won, this number of balls that he saved his team in a defensive set-piece.
“This is Harry Kane.
“It's goals plus this and this and this and that. So, for me, it's not one more goal or one less goal, it's about what he is as a player.”
