‘I still think’: Gary Lineker predicts where Tottenham would’ve finished this season if Harry Kane had stayed
Gary Lineker has revealed where, should Harry Kane have remained at Tottenham Hotspur, he believes the team would have ended in the league.
Shortly before the 2023/24 season began, Spurs lost their talisman. Paid a club-record price, he joined Bayern Munich and has had a spectacular season there, scoring 44 goals and dishing out 12 assists over 45 games.
Although Tottenham have had a respectable season as well, one wonders where they would have ended had Kane remained and led the charge.
Gary Lineker believes he knows where Tottenham would have landed had Harry Kane not gone
There is no question Harry Kane was Tottenham’s top player.
Over his tenure with Spurs, the Englishman scored 280 goals and offered 61 assists. For them he was just amazing.
Many people worried the worst for the North London team when Kane declared he wanted to leave Tottenham in the summer of 2023.
Paul Merson went so far as to claim Spurs will be in the bottom half of the Premier League standings without the England captain leading their line.
In his debut season, however, Ange Postecoglou guided Spurs to a fifth-place Premier League finish. They lost a spot in the top four because of their awful season ending—they won only two of their final seven games.
The argument raging today is whether Tottenham would have done if Kane had still been on their team. Lineker surely believes this.
The former Tottenham striker thinks Spurs would have qualified for the Champions League had Kane not departed for Bayern Munich before the season began.
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“With Harry Kane, they would have made top four,” Lineker said on the Rest is Football podcast.
Harry Kane leaving may have prevented Arsenal from winning the Premier League championship.
For Spurs supporters, Kane’s exit from their team was a sad event.
Over the years, the England captain had given Spurs many amazing moments and was always the one standing up for them.
He said goodbye in August 2023; Tottenham has done well since. Had he remained, they would have most definitely done much better.
But Kane’s departure could be the reason Arsenal, a bitter north London rival for Spurs, lost the Premier League championship earlier in May.
Should the Bayern Munich player still be at Tottenham, he would have most likely been the one aiming at goal against Manchester City rather than Heung-min Son.
The South Korean wasted his chance, but Kane probably buried it. Should it have occurred, Arsenal would have emerged with the Premier League championship.
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