Premier League Player of the Year: Top 5 nominees for the 2017/18 season

#3 Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur)

Harry Kane leads the Premier League goal scoring charts

For all the goals Harry Kane scores at Tottenham Hotspur, the only trophies he has to show for it are two Premier League Golden Boots. But one thing that cannot be denied is that the English striker is improving each and every season.

2014/15 saw him score 21 league goals, 2015/16 saw that go up to 25, and last season saw him take that tally up to 29. He also set a new record for most goals in a calendar year when he scored 39 league goals in the calendar year 2017.

6 - Harry Kane is the first player to score six Premier League hat-tricks in a calendar year. Lethal. pic.twitter.com/cMvj7qNHiu

— OptaJoe (@OptaJoe) December 26, 2017

However, the only reason he doesn't find himself higher up the list is Spurs' current position in the table. The north London side are fifth - 18 points off the top of the table.

Kane may very well end up winning the Golden Boot again - he already has 20 goals to his name.

But with only two goals against the rest of the top six sides, it only suggests that he has been somewhat of a flat-track bully this season - especially with the gap between the top sides and mid-table clubs widening every season.