Harry Kane needs to leave Tottenham in order to fulfill his ambitions of competing regularly for major silverware, according to Teddy Sheringham.
The England captain continued his excellent recent form with another eye-catching individual display on Monday night, with a stylish brace in the 5-0 demolition of Everton enough to overtake Arsenal icon Thierry Henry as the sixth-highest goalscorer in Premier League history.
With 176 strikes to his name, Kane is now just one shy of ex-Chelsea stalwart Frank Lampard on that star-studded list - headed by Alan Shearer - and 10 behind Manchester City legend Sergio Aguero.
Tottenham’s rout of lowly Everton continued the club’s wildly topsy-turvy form under manager Antonio Conte and kept their hopes of Champions League qualification very much alive, with seventh-placed Spurs now just three points behind fierce rivals Arsenal with two games in hand on West Ham and Manchester United above.
Kane’s future was a dominant talking point last summer, when he tried and failed to publicly force a big-money switch to reigning champions Manchester City.
The issue is sure to become a hot topic once again ahead of the summer transfer window, with Kane said to be “50/50” over whether or not he will revive his attempts to engineer a high-profile exit.
Kane’s desire to win trophies is no secret, with Spurs in the midst of a 14-year drought in that department and a shock FA Cup fifth-round upset by Championship side Middlesbrough last week ensuring that run will continue for at least another season.
A then 31-year-old and trophy-less Sheringham left Tottenham for Manchester United in 1997, with that decision quickly vindicated as he won a host of silverware at Old Trafford including that famous 1999 Treble before returning to White Hart Lane in 2001.
And Sheringham believes Kane will have to make the same decision as he did in a bid to realise his ambitions.
“It’s a tough one. He’s got to eye up the situation the same as I did. It’s a short career, you get probably 12 or 14 years if you’re lucky,” Sheringham said on Sky Sports’ Monday Night Football.
“He’s coming to another crossroads in his career of what do I do? Do I stay at a club that might challenge, or do I go somewhere that I know they are going to challenge?
“If I was advising him, which Tottenham supporters are not very happy about when I say this, you want to play at the top level. You want to be playing in Champions League finals. You want to be playing at the end of the season for the league title. You want to be playing in FA Cup finals.
“If you want to do that, I think he needs to leave.”
