Gary Neville tells 26-year-old PL star ‘you can’t compete with’ Tottenham player

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Gary Neville has told Brentford striker Ivan Toney that ‘you can’t compete with’ Tottenham Hotspur striker Harry Kane.

The former Manchester United defender was making reference to Toney’s chances for England and trying to earn that ticket to Qatar at the 2022 World Cup.

Whilst Neville thinks that Toney, 26, has every chance and he should probably go to the 2022 World Cup next month, he made it clear that you can’t compete with England’s‘ world-class’ captain.

On Friday night, Toney netted a brace as the Bees recorded a 2-0 win against Brighton and Hove Albion.

That was Toney’s eighth goal in ten league games, added with two assists – only Kane and Erling Haaland are ahead of him this season.

When Toney was recently called up by Gareth Southgate for England, he didn’t earn a single minute and Neville shared that the penalty expert will be frustrated by that, as he told Sky Sports Premier League.

“I think he would have been very frustrated at going away with England and not even taking part,” said Neville. “But I think Gareth (Southgate) would have been measuring him in how he was with the squad. How he has settled in.

“If you think of a 26-man World Cup squad. Calvert-Lewin has been injured. Harry Kane, let’s say something happens to him, then you have to say that he’s in with a massive chance of going. That’s probably why some felt he should have got minutes in those last few internationals.

“Every time I watch him, it just looks like the centre-backs are in real trouble and they aren’t enjoying it.

On Toney being different from Kane: “I mean Harry Kane. You can’t compete with him. He’s a world-class centre-forward. But there’s no doubt that there isn’t that backup like Kane. If England lose him, then they will have to do something different.”

TONEY IS ON THE RIGHT TRACK…

Even if Kane doesn’t score again from now until the World Cup, he will still start that opening game against Iran.

But can Toney do enough to earn his ticket alongside the Spurs man?

Well, his performances so far suggest that he is on the right track and he should go.

After that, it’s all about whether Southgate is willing to take more than one striker after Kane because, as things stand, it seems as though Tammy Abraham is ahead of Toney in the pecking order.