Mauricio Pochettino has claimed that the turning point in Harry Kane’s career came just a few weeks after the Argentine joined Tottenham as the club’s new head coach.
Emmanuel Adebayor and Roberto Soldado were the two first-team strikers at the club and 20-year-old Harry Kane was fresh off the back of another somewhat disappointing loan spell.
But Pochettino has revealed that Harry came to see him and the Spurs coaching staff to make the argument that he deserved to be getting more minutes on the pitch, to which Mauricio respectfully disagreed.
The coaches apparently showed Kane all the stats and video clips to reinforce their opinion that, while he was on the right path, he was not yet ready to start games ahead of experienced players.
Of course, we all know how the story ended. Kane clearly went away and worked on that stuff and eventually displaced Soldado as Tottenham’s main man up front, and hasn’t looked back since.
Pochettino wrote in his column for The Athletic: ‘One of the turning points in Harry Kane’s career came a few weeks into my first season as Tottenham manager.
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