Writing in a Q&A for The Athletic, Alan Shearer has admitted that there is nothing he can teach Harry Kane at this point.
The Newcastle legend has long been hailed as the greatest striker in Premier League history, and every weekend on Match of the Day he points out how today’s number nines could improve.
Shearer is one of the game’s great analysts, and you’d have to think that he’d have advice for any striker in world football.
However, the pundit has now admitted that Kane doesn’t need any guidance from him, stating that he’s playing well enough right now at the World Cup.
Kane doesn’t need Shearer
The pundit responded when asked which piece of advice he’d give to Kane.
“The truth is, Harry doesn’t need my advice Tom. I think he’ll be happy with the way he’s played. I really, he would have liked a couple more goals, but he’s got one in the knockout stages and has more than played his part in terms of captaincy and the assists he’s made. Knowing him, he would love to be up there challenging for the Golden Boot, but a World Cup for England would more than compensate,” Shearer wrote.
Done it all
Shearer is absolutely right, there is nothing more he can teach Kane.
As a three-time Premier League Golden Boot winner, a World Cup Golden Boot winner and a captain who has led England to a final of a major tournament, there really isn’t much Shearer has done that Kane hasn’t.
The only strikers who can give Kane advice at this moment in time are the likes of Didier Drogba who know how to turn it on in the big moments – a skill that has largely eluded Kane throughout his international career.
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