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Ex-Spurs Player Harry Kane

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We’re talking about “Wayne Rooney” when Harry Kane has just had the 3rd most productive club season of the last 50 years. This season is on the Messi and Ronaldo level. And yet no one will give him his credit coz he’s a quiet awkward looking bloke from Chingford. For all the talk of English bias, he is the most consistently underrated footballer I’ve ever seen in all my life. If he was Italian he’d be nicknamed “Il Mago” and be routinely called one of the greatest players of all time. Modern football discourse is a joke, all partisan agendas and awful banter and the only one who sticks up for Kane is us.
 
VirginiaSpur said:
Incredible player at his peak, sadly I think he won the genetic lottery as a teenager and drew a busted flush in his mid-twenties. He was a grown fucking man at 16-17 and didn't look out of place at all. He was a bit heavy set; wouldn't surprise me at all if he was partying and boozing too much from a young age because with his talent he was still the best one on the pitch regardless.
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Puberty works differently on different people.

Almost every kid that was big and old looking at my school now looks 50-60 years old, Rooney is one year younger than me and looks 10-20 years older than me. At 16 I was a skinny kid, Rooney was a man. Ageing definitely goes at different rates with different people. Does make me wonder about Yamal, he is a man 16/17, kind of wonder if his body will be done at 27/28.
 
Tomo said:
Kane will finish his career with far more goals than Rooney or Henry for that matter. He is a better all round football than both but people aren’t ready for that conversation. He paid the Spurs tax staying with us all those years. If he was with Real Madrid he would have had Ballon Diors already. He has 500 plus goals now and will finish his career with 700-800 and become the best English player of all time and one of the best strikers of all time.
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He's not a better all round player than Rooney. Rooney was a 9,10 and an 8.
 
gamesaboutglory said:
He's not a better all round player than Rooney. Rooney was a 9,10 and an 8.
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Harry's also a 9 and a 10 rolled into one and could probably play out his twilight years as a centre back, Dion Dublin style, given his heading, anticipation and passing range.

Rooney had a better engine at his peak but Kane's an incredibly complete footballer. He was our best defensive player on set pieces for years and has some of the best creative passing from deep ive ever seen from a striker.
 
Tomo said:
Puberty works differently on different people.

Almost every kid that was big and old looking at my school now looks 50-60 years old, Rooney is one year younger than me and looks 10-20 years older than me. At 16 I was a skinny kid, Rooney was a man. Ageing definitely goes at different rates with different people. Does make me wonder about Yamal, he is a man 16/17, kind of wonder if his body will be done at 27/28.
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TBF if rooney was heavy on the melanin he'd be accused of having a fake date of birth
 
Love that Kane is being seen for what he always was, a phenomenal player. A little resentful that it took him playing for Bayern for that realisation to occur. Bloke was head and shoulders our best player for a couple of years post Prime Poch era Spurs and was still disregarded by so many.

As for Rooney, what a player he was. Loved watching him play as he was ferocious. Room for both he and Kane but for me, Kane just about pips him.
 
Dannyboy said:
As for Rooney, what a player he was. Loved watching him play as he was ferocious. Room for both he and Kane but for me, Kane just about pips him.
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I know Kane hasn't always produced his best football in tournaments, although his goal-scoring record is still as good as anyone around. But Rooney really let himself (and us) down in tournament football other than the first one he played where he was sensational. Which brings me back to him being unreal as a teenager, but a little less so when he was in his mid 20's and beyond.
 
Tyyy said:
I know Kane hasn't always produced his best football in tournaments, although his goal-scoring record is still as good as anyone around. But Rooney really let himself (and us) down in tournament football other than the first one he played where he was sensational. Which brings me back to him being unreal as a teenager, but a little less so when he was in his mid 20's and beyond.
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Yeah it's a fair point. People are always keen to slag off Kane for not doing great at tournaments - and I think that's somewhat justified- but it's no different from Lampard, Gerrard, Scholes, Ferdinand and countless other fantastic players.

It's hard to think of many England stars in the past 30-40 years that have had truly standout tournaments.

Maybe Rooney in 2004 actually? He was absolutely on fire in that one before his injury. Never came close in later tournaments.
 
Tyyy said:
I know Kane hasn't always produced his best football in tournaments, although his goal-scoring record is still as good as anyone around. But Rooney really let himself (and us) down in tournament football other than the first one he played where he was sensational. Which brings me back to him being unreal as a teenager, but a little less so when he was in his mid 20's and beyond.
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that whole generation of players failed. The coaches too. How can you have Paul Scholes and Michael Carrick winning multiple titles and not play either for their country in their right positions? Gerrard and Lampard, unquestionably good players but....well, it's been said a million times, couldnt' play together.
 
Timberwolf said:
Yeah it's a fair point. People are always keen to slag off Kane for not doing great at tournaments - and I think that's somewhat justified- but it's no different from Lampard, Gerrard, Scholes, Ferdinand and countless other fantastic players.

It's hard to think of many England stars in the past 30-40 years that have had truly standout tournaments.

Maybe Rooney in 2004 actually? He was absolutely on fire in that one before his injury. Never came close in later tournaments.
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Really? He's the only player to have won the Golden boot at both the World Cup and the Euros, I believe.

His job is to score goals. Don't see what else he could have done to be honest.
 
walter said:
Really? He's the only player to have won the Golden boot at both the World Cup and the Euros, I believe.

His job is to score goals. Don't see what else he could have done to be honest.
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3 goals for the golden boot were against Panama and a fair few tournament goals were pens.

The one big tournament game he showed up for was against Germany and he's gone missing in almost all the others.

We all know what Kane's capable of and for England in tournaments he's looked about 40% of the peak Kane we saw at Spurs and now Bayern.

For our all time top scorer he's still lacking a truly iconic goal or moment, which is mad for such a legendary talent.
 
Timberwolf said:
3 goals for the golden boot were against Panama and a fair few tournament goals were pens.

The one big tournament game he showed up for was against Germany and he's gone missing in almost all the others.

We all know what Kane's capable of and for England in tournaments he's looked about 40% of the peak Kane we saw at Spurs and now Bayern.

For our all time top scorer he's still lacking a truly iconic goal or moment, which is mad for such a legendary talent.
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WTF!!!


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