{"id":919639,"date":"2026-10-07T17:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T17:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/919639\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T17:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T17:24:09","slug":"do-england-have-harry-kane-replacement-or-is-he-yet-to-emerge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/919639\/","title":{"rendered":"Do England have Harry Kane replacement &#8211; or is he yet to emerge?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There are some intriguing centre-forward options coming through.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Aston Villa&#8217;s 17-year-old striker Brian Madjo scored five goals in pre-season for Villa, including one in the UEFA Super Cup against European champions Paris Saint-Germain, bullying the elite centre-back duo of Marquinhos and Willian Pacho throughout.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Madjo has been sidelined for seven weeks since that game because of injury, but he is close to making a first-team return after appearing in a friendly against Sevilla during the international break.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the Championship, 21-year-old Will Lankshear &#8211; a Tottenham academy graduate like Kane &#8211; has hit the ground running for Middlesbrough with eight goals in 11 appearances for his new club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Man City&#8217;s Divin Mubama, on loan at Southampton, has scored five goals in 10 European under-21 Championship qualifiers, while the likes of Bristol City&#8217;s Dom Ballard and Millwall&#8217;s Josh Coburn are seen as young strikers with huge potential.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And Kane could yet give them time to develop having been inspired by the longevity of the newly retired Lionel Messi. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;As you see on the other end with Leo there, he&#8217;s still performing at the highest level,&#8221; Kane said after England&#8217;s semi-final loss to Argentina in the summer. &#8220;So I never want to put a limit on these things.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England supporters will hope so. So will Tuchel. That way, the Kane conundrum is likely to be passed on to one of his successors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There will be someone else, but it will not be Harry or a copy of Harry,&#8221; Tuchel added. &#8220;We will find a solution when it comes to it but maybe not me. It might be another 10 years.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There are some intriguing centre-forward options coming through. Aston Villa&#8217;s 17-year-old striker Brian Madjo scored five goals in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":919640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-919639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=919639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/919640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}