‘We’d never talk about him’ – Stan Collymore claims big-name Rangers ace lacks X-factor
Stan Collymore claims Tottenham striker Harry Kane lacks the same “X-factor” that Rangers striker Jermain Defoe doesn’t have.
On Sunday, Kane netted his 150th Premier League goal with a late winner against West Brom at The Hawthorns.
The England international joins an illustrious club of players who’ve achieved the same feat with Alan Shearer, Thierry Henry, Wayne Rooney, Sergio Aguero and Defoe among them.
Defoe scored 162 Premier League goals across spells at West Ham, Tottenham, Portsmouth, Sunderland and Bournemouth.
However, Collymore doesn’t think the Rangers striker stands in the same stead as some of the legendary strikers mentioned – and the same goes for Kane.
“Just because someone has reached a particular landmark, it doesn’t automatically mean they should be compared with others who have reached it as well,” Collymore wrote on the Mirror website.
“And if Alan Shearer, Thierry Henry, Andrew Cole, Robbie Fowler and Frank Lampard, who was the best goalscoring midfielder of his generation, are on the left-hand side of the top 10 Premier League goalscorers of all time, then I’d be putting Kane on the right-hand sides alongside Jermain Defoe.
“Now, Defoe is in the top 10 because he was consistent over a number of years but we’d never talk about him with the same reverence we’d talk about the other five I’ve mentioned.
“And the same goes for Kane, because I just don’t think he has the same X-factor they all had.”
There are some big names on that list of players who’ve scored over 150 goals.
And they’ve managed to reach 150 goals because they have an X-factor about them.
Defoe was prolific at Tottenham and managed to extend his goalscoring form into his 30s because not many players have known how to find the back of the net more consistently than him in the Premier League era.
Since moving to Scotland, Defoe has continued to bang in the goals, netting 27 times in 56 appearances across all competitions for Rangers.
You don’t hit numbers that Defoe has done in his career without having an X-factor.
Collymore didn’t have one because he jumped from club to club and has made more headlines since his career ended that he did before.
It stinks of jealously and bitterness from a forward who was never quite good enough to be remembered as a Premier League great.
And guess what? Defoe is a Premier League.
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