Spurs couldn't have got out of the group stage without Kane's contributions to the matches he played. The idea that Spurs got to a final because Kane wasn't playing is absurd to me, especially since he came back fresh off an injury to score a banger - and Spurs' only goal of the game - against Dortmund in a KO round.A bigger reason we have not won any trophies is that in the bigger games kane has continually failed to put in a match winning performance.
Our CL route to the final was largely in part achieved due to the fact he wasn’t playing. The final he did fuck all.
Spurs got to a CL final by using up a decade's worth of luck from the rest of the squad, not by having Kane sit out. Repeat that Ajax tie another hundred or more times and Moura doesn't come close to a hat trick in any of them -- we know how limited he was, apart from the very occasional moment of brilliance. That CL run was Spurs' version of Leicester winning the league, but, in true Spursy fashion, this club's lightning strike didn't lead to anything.
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