Tottenham Hotspur striker Harry Kane has surpassed Wayne Rooney to become the Premier League's second-highest scorer of all time after his goal against Crystal Palace on Saturday.
Kane scored just before half-time against Palace with a precise header after a Pedro Porro cross.
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The England captain's latest goal, 28th in all competitions, brings his total to 209 in the English Premier League. Alan Shearer holds the record for scoring 260 goals in 441 appearances.
Kane overtook Jimmy Greaves to become Tottenham's all-time leading scorer in February and overtook Rooney's total of 53 goals to become England's all-time leading scorer in February. March. The striker made his Premier League debut in August 2012 against Newcastle United. After settling into the Spurs first team in 2014, Kane scored his first goal in a 5-1 win over Sunderland.
The 29-year-old's total of 26 goals this season is his highest in the top flight since the 2017-18 campaign in which he scored 30 goals (41 in all competitions).
Kane has won the Premier League Golden Shoe three times (2015-16, 2016-17, 2020-21), as well as the Player of the Season award for the player with the most assists of the season. 2020-21.
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Former Manchester United defender Jaap Stam has questioned whether Ajax's Jurrien Timber is good enough to play at centre-back for the Reds.
The 21-year-old has long been tipped to reunite with Erik ten Hag at Old Trafford, and 90min revealed in March that Timber remains an interested player.
Timber has confessed he will assess his future this summer, having chosen to stay in Amsterdam despite the chance to leave the Eredivisie and continue his career.
Manchester United are keen to beef up their defensive options this summer and are also open to letting existing players go - Harry Maguire could be a casualty if Ten Hag can shape his squad accordingly. the way he wants.
But the former United Stam defender, a three-time champion under Sir Alex Ferguson in 1999, is not entirely convinced of Timber's ability to play in midfield, although the move will see Ten Hag reunited with the player he helped develop and broke into Ajax's squad. prime minister. crew. "United's big advantage over Timber is that they already know Ten Hag and vice versa," Stam told Dutch newspaper AD. "The coach's intentions are pinned on Timber, but make no mistake:
it's the premier league.
"There you can't always be dominant, you have to fight more against strikers like Harry Kane and Erling Haaland.
"Everybody who was with Lisandro Martnez was curious about that too. Turns out he did. With Timber, I just missed certain aggressiveness - sometimes even a little meanness - in his game.
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Timber has also been linked with United's arch-rivals Liverpool, but Stam believes United are the right choice if they play at full-back rather than centre-back. "You also have to consider combinations and chances during playtime," continued the Dutchman. United can always use a defender, because Raphael Varane is prone to injuries and Harry Maguire is always disappointing.
"In England, so I see United as the most logical choice. And what I'd like to see more often is Timber at right-back. At United, there's Dalot without the ball and Wan-Bissaka with the incomplete ball. fully convinced me.
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