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Ex-Spurs Player Harry Kane

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NDomBadBoy said:
We don’t need him to win. We have shown we can get results without him. In fact, we have had better results without him over the last three seasons so long as we have Son. Sell and reinvest the proceeds to strengthen in other areas. He is a luxury player that we don’t need and can’t afford to have.
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This dude said luxury player your deluded and the just a clear cut fact simple.
 
SchmoodSpur said:
He could go a long way to repairing the relationship with the fans this weekend.
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If he still gives a fuck or has come to the realisation that his behaviour in the summer was wrong, then he will be busting a gut to. If not, then he’ll be no different.

But he hates the gooners as much as we do and loves scoring against them.

We could do with him scoring a couple today. But he needs to stay up top as a number 9. Enough of this dropping deep shit unless it’s to release Son in behind their fullbacks (an area in which they are so weak).
 
1966 said:
I think this idea that Kane will still be the same player after being refused a move is a bit misguided. Sure, he won't down tools because he's a consummate professional, but a huge part of motivation and desire is subconscious and essentially outside of your control. So without trying to do anything different, I don't think he'll be able to keep putting in 100% effort. There's a degree of almost faking it involved.

Just imagine if you weren't allowed to leave your job. If the pay is great, you feel valued, and you feel like you owe something to your employer, you're probably going to continue trying your best anyway. But are you really going to tell me that you'd still have the raw intrinsic hunger that came naturally and inevitably when you actually wanted to be there?

If Kane is kept, I can totally see next season ruining his legacy at Spurs and tanking his relationship with the fans, which would be tragic. If the team doesn't do well - and I don't think there's any reason to believe they will - every single mistake Kane makes will be replayed ad infinitum, overanalysed, and used as evidence that he doesn't care enough because he doesn't want to be at the club. Every lull will be perceived as laziness. Even the most typical, garden variety mistakes will be pounced upon. Kane's stamina management protocol already makes him look low-energy at times in games, but next season it'll be scrutinised anew and declared further evidence of a decline.

I'm sure Kane will continue to do the best he can, at least on a conscious level (as above, I think it's impossible to give 100% under the circumstances, no matter how much you tell yourself you want it). It'd be harsh to judge him for his effort if he's doing as much as his body and brain will allow. Anyway, the confluence of all of these factors - Kane's subconscious loss of edge, a few lean patches, another bad season for the team - could so easily lead to a rift between him and the fans. I can see it being a horrible break-up and that's sad.
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Prophetic. But even I couldn't account for quite how bad the whole team and new manager would be. Or how few scoring opportunities Kane would get. In any investigation of what's going wrong, I'd be looking at how Kane's shots per game ratio is the lowest it's ever been and that he's setting his own records for lack of attacking involvement (at the end of the day, he's still a service striker, even if he can make goals from nothing/for himself).

Against Woolwich, the fact that he sprinted the entire length of the field to put in a hard, accurate tackle in his own box should illustrate that his apparent laziness and lack of desire have been overstated. He was very unlucky not to stop the third goal. It's exactly what I said would happen: overanalysis of the evidence that he has "changed" and disregard for the evidence to the contrary.

Unfortunately, it seems like he's hit a slump that's coincided with all of this speculation over his motivation and commitment. But in terms of raw effort, I defy anyone who thinks Kane's level of pressing or running has significantly changed since last season to go back and watch a couple of those matches. His running is in the same stamina-managed bursts as it was under Mourinho.

I really hope things turn around for him. Both because I love him and because I'd hate for this to be how Spurs fans remember him. It's not fair on anyone. It used to be that when trolls and idiots in cunty YouTube comments threads said that Kane was shit and overrated. Spurs fans would be the ones always backing me up against the nonsense -- it'd be tragic if that were no longer the case and I have to stand alone against the philistine hordes.
 
We’ve been begging for a top class backup striker for years, let’s make that Kane for this season.

I’d debate with anyone who tells me with pens that Son wouldn’t get 20 league goals this season through the middle.

That would obviously leave us weak out wide, but we are so desperate for pace and energy within this team.

Slap Harry on the bench and make him earn a spot if he wants to play before Jan.
 
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