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  'You make me proud,' says Antonio Conte, calling Harry Kane from Italy to congratulate him on becoming Tottenham's all-time leading scorer following his winner against Manchester City, as the Spurs manager recovers from surgery. With his 267th goal, Harry Kane became Tottenham's all-time leading scorer. Antonio Conte called Kane to congratulate him on his historic strike. Conte missed Tottenham's 1-0 win over Manchester City due to surgery. Following Tottenham's 1-0 win over Manchester City, Antonio Conte called Harry Kane to congratulate him on becoming the club's all-time leading goalscorer. Tottenham's head coach was unable to attend the game due to gallbladder surgery in Italy, so assistant coach Cristian Stellini oversaw the victory in his absence. Kane's first-half goal gave him 267 goals for Spurs, breaking the record held by the late Jimmy Greaves. Conte quickly added his congratulations from afar, with a video from the locker room showing

  STEVE PERRYMAN: Harry Kane is a fantastic player, but Jimmy Greaves was a genius who was the closest thing we've had to Lionel Messi... though the England captain will deserve all the praise he receives for breaking Tottenham's all-time scoring record. According to Steve Perryman, Harry Kane will surpass a genius in Jimmy Greaves. Kane only needs one goal to dethrone Greaves, who played with Greaves for six months in North London as Tottenham's record goal-scorer. Harry Kane may become Tottenham's all-time leading scorer on Sunday or later this month. Harry is an excellent payer, hard worker, and finisher. But Jimmy Greaves, the man whose record he is breaking, was a genius. I don’t use the word lightly nor this comparison: I think Jimmy is the closest thing we’ve had to Lionel Messi. The style, the panache, the finishing: I should be saying Messi was close to being Jim, he was that good. Some generations may not realise how much better he was than everyone else becau