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Ex-Spurs Player Harry Kane
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After we lost Berba we still managed to put a decent team together.
With the Bale money, the only buy that paid off was Eriksen.
I do agree that there’s a chance we might become a mid table team if we make bad decisions but it didn’t work out that way in the past, and what I am trying to say is this time also it doesn’t have to work out that way either.
The thing that best fits the available facts in my mind is that there was a gentleman's agreement last year from Levy to sell Kane for a certain fee this summer (we know Levy does this, he did it with Eriksen), an offer has come in for that fee that Kane and his team are aware of, and the club are now telling Kane they plan not to accept and are trying to persuade him to stay.
Exactly. I see him as part of a front three along with Son (if he's even at the club next season) and a new striker, or someone playing off a striker. I think he's a good player and would be a good signing for us. He's not great but if he was he wouldn't even be a potential option. I just really don't think we're going to attract better players than Jesus without Kane and Champions League football to offer.
Not the strongest response, but I guess an honest one. Calling Kane "H" doesn't help the "Mason's mates" narrative even I will admit
Whenever I see or hear the word "H" I think of that soppy cunt from Steps.
Not the strongest response, but I guess an honest one. Calling Kane "H" doesn't help the "Mason's mates" narrative even I will admit
Going to feel sick seeing him in a city shirt next season!
Agreed, not only will it be virtually impossible to bring in someone who could 1:1 replace him, I feel bad for whoever we do bring in because they will only ever be compared against Kane.
However much money we would get would be better spent spread across a number of players, not dropping a huge amount on one player. We'll need to figure out how to make up the goals and other playmaking he provides across multiple players, not just from one person.
I think of one thing and one thing only and that is bent coppers.
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Not just the Champions League.
Kane has failed to perform to his usual levels for FA & League Cup quarter and semi finals we have won too.
Other players have got assists, scored goals, been man of the match - but not Kane for whatever reasons, even when he played.
Nacer Chadli was a solid buy. And part of our turn around I think both him and Eriksen were sound investments. All the others....meh
So I was doing some digging through advanced stats and was surprised to see that Kane is in the 3rd decile for touches inside the opposition box this season, which means he's well below the average for forwards across Europe. He's in the highest decile (>90%) for most metrics that matter for an attacker, so the stat regarding touches in the box sticks out like a sore thumb.
The fact that Kane has maintained such a strong record of goals and assists regardless is a strong counterpoint to Sammy's insistence on focusing on conversion %s because it suggests that Kane has been very efficient with whatever service he's actually received into the box. In combination with xG it does also support my earlier hypothesis that Kane's unremarkable conversion % is the result of speculative shooting from outside the box or in otherwise unlikely scenarios.
The fact that Kane has maintained such a strong record of goals and assists regardless is a strong counterpoint to Sammy's insistence on focusing on conversion %s because it suggests that Kane has been very efficient with whatever service he's actually received into the box. In combination with xG it does also support my earlier hypothesis that Kane's unremarkable conversion % is the result of speculative shooting from outside the box or in otherwise unlikely scenarios.
We cant get a like for like replacement, we will just need to change the way we play and if Kane goes we must do all we can to keep son, if we lose them both we are proper fucked
Don't transfer him on football manager or fifa then, and you won't see him in a city shirt.
Levy in many ways is a dick really, making an verbal agreement that he doesn’t intend to keep.
In many ways it’s understandable why Eriksen never renewed, he knew he wasn’t going to leave unless he ran down his contract because of how Levy is.
I remember Fulham being ridiculed by some when i was a kid,because thats what Alan Mullery did.Joined us, won a bit of silver and went back to his boyhood club.
is that what we've become? Naah,i'm with Goat,if he goes ,so be it.but stay gone.
It rarely works out too great when ex players come back anyway.Never the same.
Not the strongest response, but I guess an honest one. Calling Kane "H" doesn't help the "Mason's mates" narrative even I will admit
He also pronounced H wrong.
There were some serious deadwoods in that group we bought, including Lamela.
The three big money moves of the group were Soldado, Paulinho, and Lamela, and all three were totally useless flops instantly.
It's frankly a miracle we recovered from that the way we did. And probably no one is more to thank for that than Harry Kane.
Yeah. If Kane goes we should not be looking for a like for like. We should take it as a chance to full on revamp how we play. Anyone brought in as a like for like replacement will be held to a near impossible measuring stick. It would be much saner to build a new attacking system.