Harry Kane received the Premier League's Golden Boot twice: in 2016 and 2017.
The argument
The Premier League Golden Boot is the simplest and hardest measure of a striker: score more goals in a season than every other forward in the world's most-watched league. Harry Kane won it twice in succession, in 2015-16 and 2016-17, finishing ahead of strikers such as Sergio Agüero, Jamie Vardy, Romelu Lukaku and Alexis Sánchez at the peak of their powers. Back-to-back Golden Boots are rare in any era; doing it from a Tottenham side still rebuilding into a title contender, rather than from a dominant champion machine, makes the achievement rarer still. No other Tottenham striker in the Premier League era has won the award even once while at the club. The forwards Kane is measured against in this debate — Greaves, Lineker, Sheringham, Keane, Defoe — were all prolific, but none could claim consecutive seasons as the division's outright leading scorer. Kane's Golden Boot seasons were not statistical flukes either: they came amid years of twenty-five-goal-plus consistency in all competitions, with the same finishing range — penalties, headers, half-volleys from distance, goals off either foot — that made him essentially impossible to defend at his best. The award also locates Kane's greatness beyond North London. A Golden Boot is won against the entire league, not within one club's history, and consecutive wins announced Kane as the best striker in England and among the best in the world. A Spurs forward who reached that summit twice in a row, this argument holds, has a claim none of his predecessors can match.
Premises
Counter-arguments
Two Golden Boots make a strong modern case, but 'greatest striker' over the club's 140-year history turns on more than individual awards. Jimmy Greaves scored at a higher goals-per-game rate than any Spurs forward and was the club's record scorer for half a century, so the goal-scoring crown is not settled by two award-winning seasons. And Kane, for all his goals, won no major honour during his Tottenham career, which for many is central to greatness. The Golden Boots establish Kane's individual peak; they do not by themselves place him above every Spurs striker who came before.
Rejecting the premises
[Rejecting P3] Winning the league's scoring award in two seasons establishes a peak, not the greatest career in a club history that also weighs total goals, scoring rate and trophies won.