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I've had my moments wanting to flog kane before his injuries reduce him to a bag of bones, but the direction we're heading in now we have to keep him.There is an alternative to having to butter up Kane about this. And one that I've been harping on about. You know, actually cashing in and getting a player more fitting to do that role, bigger, faster, more mobile/agile, better technically.
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Wanted to make a big statement.
Yeah. That’s what it was
I've seen and agreed with them. I'm not denying he can/will be successful but i also think it could benefit both parties AND we will regret missing the cash and filling out the squad. but I also long for some more power and pace from that position. And if we are going to tactically devalue the scoring from it then we can find the other aspects more easily. But I get your perspective.
Hope so. And I hope both parties' targets are hit. And if we start blowing teams out his points/goal may drop, as he will be scoring Lukaku-goals (last goal in a 4-0 blowout), but his overall number will remain high enough to keep him happy.
Well, both are overvalued which bring up the cliche "stike while the irons hot". And Kane is our 'best player' how? Not disputing your assertion but asking for your metric. In what way is he our best player? He's our top goal scorer but in what way is he our best player?
Create? C'mon man. Even Kane said that one time all he did was turn kick the ball without looking for one of the goals. There is no 'create'. He hit 3 balls into space FFS. It's called holdup play and tons of strikers can do it... You, right here, are overvaluing something. And why would you want the guy that you rate based on his goal scoring to be wasted by dropping into the center circle to kick balls over the backline? Not really scoring goals is he? You see the conundrum?
And this is a silly statement because the converse iwould then also be true and that is that goal scoring lack ability to facilitate. And Harry will have diffulty doing it against better/strong/faster/smarter defenders because holdup play ain't his forte (see CL final). I wouldn't call that a lack of ability as much as a lack of developmental focus. People thought Benzema couldn't score because he spent his time facilitating (with RM). That was just observer's ignorance and understanding of the game.
Yeah, nice quiet little place like Paris will soon calm him down a bit.
Importance, possibly, but most skilled and all that other stuff, gonna have to disagree.
Tanguy is the best passer on the team...by some distance. But this is a skinniest kid at fat camp situation. We have a team of cloggers that can't do much of the basics of footballing skills. In fact, we are in the thread of one of the cloggiest cloggers of the bunch who is thankfully getting moved on. Being the best of a bad bunch isn't something to crow about. But Tanguy is absolutely good and Kane and just better than most of the rest. There's a difference.
You should watch other leagues.
I'm starting to sense either a miscommunication or a dearth of understanding. the faciliators would be doing exactly those other things. Strikers don't score folks say they are shit but they may be doing the other parts of the job perfectly. Those players are out there. And the assumption is that Kane is great at all those things and he is not...just better than the rest of the lost we have.
