England captain Harry Kane says club rivalries will not disrupt team effort

England captain Harry Kane says club rivalries will not disrupt team effort

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Harry Kane and Dele Alli are teammates for England and Spurs but have no intention of fostering rivalries with the rest of the national team squad.
 Harry Kane and Dele Alli are teammates for England and Spurs but have no intention of fostering rivalries with the rest of the national team squad. Photograph: Eddie Keogh for The FA/REX/Shutterstock
Harry Kane has insisted the intensity of club rivalries will not disrupt the harmony established by Gareth Southgate within the senior England squad and ruled out a return to the days when cliques undermined the team’s progress.
Members of the national squad will find themselves in direct confrontation over the next few weeks as Manchester City and Liverpool go head to head in the Premier League title race and City meet Tottenham in the Champions League quarter-finals. Club rivalries have spilled over into England get-togethers in the past, most notably between the contingents from Liverpool, Chelsea and Manchester United, with players reluctant to mix together.
Those divisions have been cited by those involved as a contributing factor to the national team’s failures at major tournaments. Yet, despite Kyle Walker taking to social media to revel in Harry Maguire’s late equaliser against Liverpool in a league game in January, Kane believes the unity nurtured by Southgate will survive any tensions generated by the clubs’ most fiercely contested run-in of recent years.
“We’ve heard about things happening in the past: people sitting on different tables and teams being divided,” said the Spurs striker. “You just can’t have that in a team. You need to be 100% together.
“The great thing about this team is we have a bit of fun, a laugh and a joke, but we know when we are here it is all about England and we put the club stuff to one side. Even with the Liverpool and City boys it is 100% England. I’m sure when we go back [to the clubs] there’ll be plenty of text messages and group messages flying about. We have got a great bond here and at the end of the day we’re all good friends whether we play for one club or another. We get on very well. When we are back at our clubs it is 100% about winning but we have that respect for each other so we can talk to each other and be friends.
source:The Guadridan

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