Dimitar Berbatov has revealed he was stunned ‘no Premier League club wanted Harry Kane’ as he hailed England’s captain as a ‘machine’.
It’s been over a year since Kane left Tottenham for Bayern Munich for £86million with add-ons that could increase the total transfer fee to around £100m.
Since then he’s reached the Euro 2024 final with England and edged Erling Haaland to become the fastest ever player to notch 50 goal contributions, doing so in just 35 matches.
But Berbatov thinks Kane deserved to stay in the Premier League, as he revealed he felt like most Tottenham fans when the Spurs striker left for the Bundesliga.
When asked what he thought of Kane on talkSPORT’s The LineUp, he shook his head and said: “Harry Kane is a machine.”
“I was crying that day [he left],” Berbatov said.
“Well, not crying! But I was like ‘seriously?!’
“‘No other club in the Premier League wanted him to stay here?”
Current Premier League champions Manchester City had been interested in Kane in 2021.
Sergio Aguero had left for Barcelona that summer, and City needed to replace him.
However, their £100m bid for Kane wasn’t enough to persuade Spurs to let go of their talisman.
Two years later, he moved on for Germany and is now under contract until June 2027.
City, meanwhile, signed Erling Haaland from Borussia Dortmund and Spurs have Dominic Solanke starting up top now instead.
Kane made 435 appearances for Spurs, becoming their all-time top scorer with 280 goals and grabbing 61 assists.
Berbatov, meanwhile, played 102 times for Spurs, scoring 46 goals and assisting 29 between 2006 and 2008 – and both strikers have firmly written themselves in the club’s history books as a result.
Berbatov won the League Cup with the club in 2008, too.
The Bulgarian scored the equaliser in the final against Chelsea to cancel out Didier Drogba’s opener.
Jonathan Woodgate bagged the winner in added time to claim Tottenham’s last trophy.
