HARRY KANE is blocking out one long epic saga to concentrate on another at these Euros.
While speculation rages about Tottenham’s farcical search for a new manager, as well as Kane’s own club future, the England captain has shut down the noise by watching season three of Game of Thrones.
Why worry about Paulo Fonseca, Antonio Conte, Nuno Espirito Santo and the other dozens of candidates to succeed Jose Mourinho, when you can watch wizards having sex instead?
Before Euro 2020 kicked off, Kane made clear his desire to leave Spurs this summer — but despite a £100million bid from Manchester City, he says he has had no conversations about his club future during the tournament.
There have been suggestions that uncertainty over his future might be affecting his form but Kane is adamant he is solely focused on Tuesday’s last-16 clash with Germany.
The striker, 27, said: “It’s not concerned me at all. When I come away with England, I’m just fully focused on England.
“My brother is my agent but the only time I’ve spoken to him over the last few weeks, it was just ‘good luck, let’s get a win and let’s take England all the way’.
“So it doesn’t bother me about the outside noise. When I’m here, I’m with the boys. I try to help them, be a leader in the team.
“I need to get to know the boys, see what makes certain players tick, so I feel like I’ve got enough on my plate to worry about anything outside of England.
“That’s where I’m at and I feel like it’s one of those, where if you’re not scoring as a striker, people look for every little angle as to why you’re not scoring.
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“That’s probably the case in this tournament so far but as long as I’m focused, I’ve got the self-belief I have and I’m not worried about anything else.”
Asked whether he had seen any of the Spurs managerial speculation, he said: “I just keep myself to myself.
“I watch my series, I’m on series three of Game of Thrones now, or I’m with the boys playing pool or table tennis. I just try to stay away from it all.
“When you are in tournament mode, sometimes it’s easy to get caught up with other stuff but the experience I’ve had in the last few tournaments is just to focus on this and leave no regrets.”
Kane — Golden Boot winner at the last World Cup and in last season’s Premier League — is yet to find the net at these Euros and he admits he was below par against Croatia and Scotland before an improvement against the Czechs on Tuesday.
He said: “The first two games weren’t my best, I definitely could have improved on them. I thought the third game was a tough game but I felt a lot better.
“I felt I had a lot more involvement in the game, not just with the ball but without the ball and holding it up.
“People are quick to change their mind. It wasn’t too long ago when I won the Golden Boot and I was the best thing in the world and people were raving about me. That’s why I’ve always said, as a footballer, you can’t get too high or too low, you just have to have that neutral mode.
“I’ve always believed in myself. I could go ten or 15 games without scoring but give me a chance and I’d back myself to score it.
“I’m in a good place. Going into Tuesday night, physically, I’m in the best shape of the tournament so far and that’s what I wanted going into this.
“I felt like I finished the season strongly with the club and sometimes when you have a break and then come back, it might take you a couple of games to get that feeling back.
“People sometimes expect you to just wipe the floor with some of these teams in European competition but it’s not the case.
“I’d have liked to have scored a few goals by now but it doesn’t always go your way like that. I’m calm and the team are calm.”
England have scored just twice so far — fewer goals than any other side left in the competition.
But Kane claims they are determined to entertain the masses against the Germans.
He said: “Germany are a great side, a tough side, but if we want to win this competition, if we want to go far, we are going to have to beat the best teams.
“We are going to assess Germany’s strengths and weaknesses but it is a game to be excited about, a game that we are all going to enjoy being involved in.
“It’s a big game but another game to go out and express ourselves.
“I feel like this team just want to play football, they want to get on the ball, show the world what they can do — and that is what we are going to try to do on Tuesday night.”
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Source: Soccer - thesun.co.uk
