Football
Amid Man City Interest, Kane Says De Bruyne Is ‘a Striker’s Dream’
Harry Kane has said he wants to stay in the Premier League and has encouraged interest from Manchester City by naming “striker’s dream” Kevin De Bruyne as the player he would most like to play in front of.
City are thought to be at the front of the queue if Kane leaves Tottenham this summer, with the England captain having said he wants to have “a conversation” with the club about his future and insisted he will decide his fate, not Spurs chairman Daniel Levy.
Kane, who is 28 in July, has three years remaining on his Spurs contract but has formally asked to leave his boyhood club, and believes he has a gentleman’s agreement with Levy to allow him to go for the right offer in the off-season.
City are among the few clubs with the resources to test Spurs’ resolve not to sell and can offer Kane a shot at the team trophies he craves.
Asked by Gary Neville on The Overlap YouTube channel, the full episode of which was released today, which player in the world would help him to score more goals, Kane said: “Oh, Kevin De Bruyne for sure.
“When I watch De Bruyne play, he’s a special, special player and some of the balls I see him put in for City are just a striker’s dream if I’m honest. He’s outstanding, an outstanding player with the ball, off the ball, pressing. But his delivery is as good as I’ve ever seen.”
Levy would prefer to sanction a transfer overseas rather than strengthen a Premier League rival but Kane also said he is not interested in moving abroad “in the near future”.
If Levy refuses to allow Kane to join another English club, the forward’s desire to overhaul Alan Shearer as the Premier League’s all-time top scorer is one reason he could be persuaded to stay at Spurs.
According to the Italian publication II Mattino, Chelsea, Arsenal, and Paris Saint-Germain are prepared to make an offer of €90 million for Victor Osimhen, the top striker for Napoli.
According to the report, Osimhen’s contract has a release clause worth about €120 million, although Napoli President Aurelio de Laurentiis might accept a price less than that.
The Nigerian forward signed a new contract with Napoli last December, but the club is ready to let go of him at the end of the current campaign.
PSG, Chelsea, and Arsenal have all been mentioned frequently as potential suitors for the forward.
To resolve the striker’s future, intermediaries are allegedly collaborating with Roberto Calenda, his agent.
Osimhen, who left Ligue 1 team Lille in 2022 to join Napoli, has made 125 appearances for the Partenopei and scored 72 goals.
Super Eagles of Nigeria goalkeeper, Maduka Okoye has won Udinese’s Player of the Month Award for February after having one of the best runs of his football career.
Maduka Okoye is just coming out from a very difficult phase of his football career after losing his place in his club and international teams.
Recall that after the 24-year-old Nigerian goalkeeper made an error that contributed to the Super Eagles’ exit from the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) in Cameroon, the goalkeeper has found it impossible to retain his first spot in the team.
Things got more complicated for Maduka Okoye when former Super Eagles coach, Jose Peseiro, didn’t invite him for the just concluded 2023 AFCON in which Chippa United goalkeeper, Stanley Nwabali made his name and grabbed the team’s first spot.
As he was struggling with the national team, Okoye was also struggling in Europe as he couldn’t get game time at Championship side, Watford.
His lack of game time forced him to move to Udinese on August 24, 2023. Initially, Okoye couldn’t make the first team at the Italian side until last January.
Okoye’s best month at the club came in February 2024 in which he helped the struggling team to win two games, draw once, and suffer one defeat. The Nigerian out-of-favour goalkeeper kept two clean sheets in the said month.
Due to that, before Udinese’s 2-0 defeat at home to Torino on Saturday, March 16, the Italian Serie A club presented him with the Player of the Month Award.
Note that the Nigeria international has made 13 Serie A appearances for the Italian club in which he conceded 18 goals. Football statistics platform, Opta, claimed that Maduka Okoye has never made an error leading to a goal since he joined Udinese.
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