Liverpool legend Graeme Souness says Tottenham striker Harry Kane can match the feats of Alan Shearer.

Kane has scored 24 Premier League goals for title-chasing Spurs this season and has drawn comparisons with Shearer, who is the all-time top goalscorer in the English top flight with 260 goals.

Speaking on Sky Sports' Monday Night Football, Souness said: "I think he is the nearest thing to Alan Shearer. Shearer is the greatest centre forward England has ever had - the stats would suggest that - and I think Kane will come close to him.

"The only thing I can see stopping him being that type of player is if he gets a bad knock. He's still a baby and in his second year in the Premier League.

"He's a goalscorer of all types of goals and a workaholic. I think I read somewhere that Glenn Hoddle was his hero and as fabulous as Glenn was, I don't want him to be a Glenn Hoddle because I think he's a goal threat. I want him further up the pitch.

"For someone so young, if you look at the position he takes up to get on the ball, it shows me he has a football brain; similar to Dele Alli.

"He is their (Tottenham's) main man and he'll be their main man for the next 10 years if they can hold on to him."