Gary Mabbutt says Harry Kane is already one of Tottenham’s greatest ever strikers

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Kane has scored 86 goals in 154 games so far in his Spurs career.

Former Tottenham Hotspur captain Gary Mabbutt has told the Daily Mail that Harry Kane should already be counted as one of the greatest strikers in the club’s history.

Kane has been Spurs’ main man since first establishing himself as a regular starter in the side, and that has perhaps never been more true than it is now.

The 22-year-old has scored 22 goals in 27 games at club level this term, including three hat-tricks in the last six weeks.

Those goals take his total tally for Tottenham to 86 in 154 appearances, and sees him as the club’s top scorer in each of the last three seasons, inclusive of this term.

The debate is already raging as to where Kane fits into the history of great White Hart Lane strikers, and Mabbutt, who played alongside the likes of Gary Lineker and Clive Allen, believes his name should be mentioned with the very best.

The 1991 FA Cup-winning captain told the Daily Mail: “He’s right up there with Tottenham’s greatest strikers.

“In my time at Tottenham I was lucky to see some wonderful strikers – Steve Archibald, Clive Allen, Gary Lineker, Jurgen Klinsmann – but watching Harry, he’s one of the best finishers I’ve ever seen.

“He’s up there will all of them in terms of his goalscoring and, after what he’s achieved over the last couple of seasons and knowing how hard he works, he can get even better.”

Kane currently boasts a goalscoring ratio of better than a goal every other game, with his figure of 0.56 goals per game better than that managed by former Spurs heroes such as Martin Chivers, Teddy Sheringham, Robbie Keane and Jermain Defoe.

The England star is currently the fourth-highest league scorer in the club’s Premier League history, and he should be expected to surpass Sheringham’s record mark of 98 sooner rather than later.

If he can continue the same form he has showed through the majority of the last two-and-a-half years, he could well see his name up in lights in the club’s record books before too long.