Kane then spent time with Watford before signing for Spurs, who stuck with him, but the England man believes he knows why Arsenal passed up the chance to nail him down.
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Someone is already gunning for Rooney’s record.
With Wayne Rooney back this week Kane may well feature against France on Tuesday when, amid the emotion of the friendly against France in the wake of the Paris terror attacks, he comes up against his Spurs team-mate Hugo Lloris.
The 22-year-old enjoyed a fine first season as a regular at White Hart Lane last term and bagged 31 goals in 51 games – form which he took into the Three Lions senior squad after being called up by boss Roy Hodgson.
“Obviously it’s an wonderful achievement for Wayne to be England’s all-time top goalscorer”, he said.
Speaking about the support has had from the staff at Tottenham, Kane told the FA’s official website: “They’ve been great, they are great people to have around, very enthusiastic and just try to get the best out of all their players”. I’ll be trying to score against him.
“Maybe in 10 years we’ll see where I’m at”.
Having played 56 games for Spurs last season before leading the line for England Under-21’s during their ill-fated European Championship campaign, fears of burn-out were prominent. I still felt I was contributing.
“The most requests are from people seeing me in the street or out and about asking me to do a wedding video to say, “Congratulations”.
“I went away with the missus and went away on a beach spending time looking back at what has been great season for me”, he said when asked if he could absorb what has happened. So I knew there was going to be a spell at some point this season that I probably wouldn’t be scoring for a few games. We train with each other, so we know each other’s game.
Kane is a low handicap golfer who plays off five and is about to treat himself to an expensive golf simulator to play on at home when the wintry weather is too bad to play for real.
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‘Even for the likes of Jordan Spieth, he is my age, the way he burst onto the scene and now it is about maintaining it. That is obviously what I want.
