Digital Sports Editor
Erling Haaland is a physical titan who has pace and can finish. Vinicius Júnior is small but supremely destructive with his pace and skill. Ousmane Dembele and Kylian Mbappe are deadly creators and scorers.
Harry Kane is arguably the world’s best out-and-out finishing centre-forward in the mould of a long line of England legend predecessors such as Bobby Charlton, Kevin Keegan, Gary Lineker, Alan Shearer and Andy Cole, Michael Owen, Robbie Fowler and Wayne Rooney.
He has surpassed many of them. Like those great strikers, it is his positioning, supreme finishing and intelligence in the box that make Kane, even at 32, the world’s deadliest finisher for Bayern Munich, where he has scored at almost a goal a game (140 in 145 matches since moving there from Tottenham Hotspur in 2023), and England (78 in 112).
He has 447 goals in 659 career club games, making for a superb two goals per three matches ratio. He has statistically grown deadlier in Germany than even his Spurs days (280 in 435). He would have broken Shearer’s all-time EPL scoring record (260) had he stayed there, where Kane is second on 213.
