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Harry Kane says the appearances in the Premier League of Darwin Nunez and Erling Haaland will drive him on to improve as a player.
On Monday morning, Manchester City, at last, affirmed the appearance of Haaland from Borussia Dortmund in a £51million bargain, while Benfica reported on Sunday night that they have consented to the £64m move of Nunez to Liverpool.
The pair scored 63 club goals between them last season and appear to be set to make getting last season's main two a much really overwhelming undertaking for the pursuing pack, including Kane's Tottenham.
On an individual level, in any case, the England captain is inviting the fresh debuts and will hope to outperform the pair as he pursues a fourth Premier League Golden Boot.
"The fight for the Golden Boot is dependably intense, the Premier League has created a few top strikers all over the planet for various years at this point," he said. "Each season I've been playing it's forever been an intense fight.
"You anticipate that the top strikers should need to play in the Premier League and with those two new signings, being the case is going. It helps me as a player to have great contests, it drives me to improve and improve in this way, without a doubt, I'm anticipating the test."
Kane has scored 183 Premier League goals across his profession and has for quite some time been reserved as having the capacity to outperform Alan Shearer's characteristic of 260.
All the more right away, Wayne Rooney's unequaled England record of 53 goals is inside sight after the Spurs striker scored a milestone 50th goal against Germany last week.
The 28-year-old could draw nearer in Tuesday night's Nations League match with Hungary at Molineux, in front of which Gareth Southgate has been asking the remainder of his crew to facilitate the goalscoring trouble on Kane and individual forward Raheem Sterling.
Kane, nonetheless, says the country's dependence on his goals isn't excessively overwhelming.
"As a striker, obviously, you have that assumption on yourself and I think the group has a touch of assumption on you too to deliver," he added. "I appreciate it, I appreciate scoring goals without a doubt and dominating matches.
"There's no strain from different players as far as causing me to have an apprehensive outlook on scoring objectives or any such thing. We as a whole know our obligations and our positions, I attempt and assume that liability as one of the accomplished players, and I simply appreciate scoring goals."
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