The Tottenham striker scored a double as Spurs defeated Bournemouth 3-0 at White Hart Lane on Sunday and hopes he can match the former Newcastle legend
Harry Kane is eyeing Alan Shearer’s Premier League scoring record after netting a superb double in Tottenham’s 3-0 win over Bournemouth on Sunday.
The England international took his tally for the season to 21 Premier League goals with his his strikes against the Cherries – and 24 in all competitions – as Spurs again cut the gap to league leaders Leicester City to five points with seven games of the season remaining.
Shearer scored a total of 260 goals during his time in the Premier League, playing for Blackburn Rovers and Newcastle United.
And while Kane, whom Mauricio Pochettino described as “one of the best strikers in the world” after the club’s latest win, admits the record is a long way off, he is setting no limit on what he can achieve.
“It’s a lot of goals and I’m still a long way off but Shearer was an idol of mine growing up, to see how many goals he scored was incredible,” Kane, who has scored 45 Premier League goals in total, told reporters.
“I take it season by season. I don’t like looking too far ahead because you never know what can happen.
“Definitely [it’s a good thing to aim at], they're the goals you dream of. When you’re a younger player, you watch them scoring goals week in and week out so to be doing that now is a dream come true.
"Hopefully I keep working hard and keep getting better and better and scoring as much as possible.”
Kane has emerged from the shadows at White Hart Lane, making his debut in the 2013-14 season and has since gone on to go from strength to strength.
And the striker hopes that his rise from reserve to one of the finest goalscorers in the Premier League inspires other managers to take a chance on younger players, instead of simply attempting to buy from abroad.
“If I can be a role model or if I can maybe make another manager play a young player coming through, rather than buy a player, that’s incredible,” he said.
“I think sometimes managers like to buy players because they're more experienced from abroad or when they’ve got players under their nose that will give everything to the club they’ve been brought up with.
“The more people get chances at a young age, I think you’ll see more talent coming through as we have done this season.”
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