Speaking on the Match of the Day Top 10 Podcast, Micah Richards has been discussing Harry Kane and his career to date.
Richards was tasked with naming the 10 best players to never win a Premier League winners’ medal, and as you can imagine, Kane made the cut.
Kane may be one of the best strikers in Premier League history, but he’s actually never won a single trophy during his career.
There has been plenty of talk about him leaving Spurs in the past, and Richards believes that the perfect time for Kane to leave north London was around the time Mauricio Pochettino was sacked.
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What’s been said?
Richards, along with Gary Lineker and Alan Shearer were speaking about Spurs’ fantastic spell between 2016 and 2019 and how they stelled afterwards.
“They had the chance to kick on Tottenham, and they didn’t, in Pochettino’s time, that was when he started to get a bit fidgety didn’t he?” Shearer said.
“That was it, they thought they’d done well, then they didn’t sign any players, Pochettino wanted to refresh it and Levy didn’t let him.” Lineker said.
“Harry Kane should have left when Pochettino left, that’s what I think,” Richards added.
Hindsight is 20/20
Richards says that Kane should have left when Pochettino did, but at the time, that would have been a daft thing to say.
Pochettino was sacked for a reason, and once the Argentine left, Spurs immediately appointed Jose Mourinho – a manager who, up until that point, had won trophies everywhere he’d been.
It looked as though Spurs may once again kick on under Mourinho, and while things didn’t quite turn out that way, Kane wasn’t to know the issues that would arise during that era.
Kane leaving in late 2019 or early 2020 wouldn’t really have made much sense at the time, but looking back, it probably would have been his best course of action.
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