Gary Lineker says Tottenham Hotspur star Harry Kane is better than Karim Benzema so could a Real Madrid switch be realistic?
Tottenham’s Harry Kane celebrates scoring their third goal
Following a hat-trick on the final day of the Premier League season, Match Of The Day presenter Gary Lineker and pundit Ian Wright compared Harry Kane to Karim Benzema.
“When you can give that kind of return, and even last season people were doubting him… I think he’s as good as Benzema,” Wright said.
And Lineker responded: “I think he’s better.”
The Tottenham Hotspur striker’s 29 league goals in 30 matches was certainly a far better return than Benzema’s 11 La Liga strikes in 29 appearances for Real Madrid.
In fact only four players across Europe’s top five divisions scored more than Kane in 2016/17 – Lionel Messi (37), Edinson Cavani (35), Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (31) and Robert Lewandowski (30).
No player at Madrid netted as many as the 23-year-old, not even the great Cristiano Ronaldo, who scored 25 times in 29 matches in the Spanish top tier.
Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo
So could Kane genuinely become a target for Los Blancos? After all, they have signed both Gareth Bale and Luka Modric from Spurs in recent times to great success.
Lineker thinks the England international would be an upgrade on Benzema and he may have a point, although with the aforementioned Ronaldo increasingly moving more centrally to become a poacher, arguably he would be the biggest stumbling block.
However, Kane is almost ten years junior to the 32-year-old and while the Portugal captain is Madrid’s all-time top-scorer, the club are likely to be looking to a future without the aging superstar.
Tottenham’s Harry Kane
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