Harry Kane has told the ITV Football Show that he doesn’t know where the suggestion that he asked for the number nine shirt at Tottenham Hotspur has come from.
There have been claims that Kane wanted to be Tottenham’s number nine, when he was just a youngster.
Andros Townsend, who co-hosts the podcast, even thought that the rumour was true.
When speaking about Kane’s career, Townsend was reflecting on the Spurs striker’s initial struggles to break into the team.
As a youngster, Kane was sent out of a number of loan spells by Tottenham, and ultimately he had to speak to Andre Villas-Boas about his desire to stay and fight for a place.
And Townsend, who had only just left Spurs at the time, said: “I think I remember that conversation, was that the summer you asked for the number nine shirt?”
But Kane was quick to swat aside that misconception.
“I don’t know where this has come from,” the Spurs striker said.
“A lot of people think I asked for the number nine shirt, but I never said that to anyone. I’m not actually sure where that came from.
“For me it was just about working hard and I just wanted my chance in the first-team.”
In the end Kane went from wearing the number 18 shirt to be named as Tottenham’s number 10, after he established himself in the first-team.
Kane will now go down as one of Spurs’s all time greats to wear the jersey, and the number will be synonymous with him for the years ahead.
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