Former Tottenham striker Jermain Defoe has told Harry Kane why he must leave Spurs.
Tottenham’s struggles this season, highlighted by a humiliating Europa League exit to Dinamo Zagreb, have prompted fresh speculation over Kane’s future as he looks to win the game’s biggest trophies.
Spurs can still finish the season in the top four and end their 13-year trophy drought since the 2008 League Cup, though face Manchester City in this year’s final.
But Defoe, who was part of that last Spurs team to win a trophy, says his late-career move to Rangers and finally winning a league title has changed his perspective on Kane’s plight.
“If you’d have asked me this question a few years ago, I’d have said he should have stayed there, what he’s done at the football club – he’s a legend,” he said on talkSPORT.
“Since I’ve come away from that and gone to Rangers, I’ve seen that mentality and played for another big club, the importance of playing for that club and winning every game, that mentality, the standards and demands.
“You have to win and bring silverware, otherwise it’s not good enough. When you actually achieve that and the feeling you get from that, wow man. I wish I had that earlier on in my career.
“If Harry Kane wants that and wants to win trophies then it looks like he has to go.
“I don’t think it will be easy for him to leave and he might be looking at it and want to finish off being the highest goalscorer in the club’s history and see where that takes him.
“He can hopefully win a few trophies, but if he’s really craving medals then he really has to go.”
