Dimitar Berbatov has revealed he was surprised no Premier League membership needed Harry Kane and hailed the England captain as a “machine”.
It has been over a yr since Kane left Tottenham for Bayern Munich for £86m with add-ons that might enhance the whole switch price to round £100m.
Since then, he reached the ultimate of Euro 2024 with England and surpassed Erling Haaland to turn into the quickest participant to attain 50 objectives, in simply 35 video games.
However Berbatov believes Kane deserved to remain within the Premier League, as he revealed he felt like most Tottenham followers when the Spurs striker left for the Bundesliga.
When requested what he considered Kane on talkSPORT’s The LineUp, he shook his head and mentioned: “Harry Kane is a machine.”
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“That day (he left) he was crying,” Berbatov mentioned.
“Nicely, not crying! However I used to be like ‘actually?!’
“Did no different Premier League membership need him to remain right here?”
Manchester Metropolis, present Premier League champions, had been considering Kane in 2021.
Sergio Agüero had left for Barcelona that summer time and Metropolis wanted to switch him.
Nevertheless, their £100million provide for Kane was not sufficient to steer Spurs to half with their talisman.
Two years later he went to Germany and now has a contract till June 2027.
In the meantime, Metropolis signed Erling Haaland from Borussia Dortmund and Spurs have Dominic Solanke beginning now.
Kane performed 435 video games for Spurs, turning into their all-time main scorer with 280 objectives and 61 assists.
Berbatov, in the meantime, performed 102 instances for Spurs, scoring 46 objectives and aiding 29 between 2006 and 2008, and in consequence each strikers have written themselves firmly into the membership’s historical past books.
Berbatov additionally gained the League Cup with the membership in 2008.
The Bulgarian scored the equalizing objective within the remaining in opposition to Chelsea to cancel out Didier Drogba’s preliminary objective.
Jonathan Woodgate scored the winner in harm time to assert Tottenham’s newest trophy.