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Something is going on. Maybe it’s Kane himself not wanting to play deep as often.
Assuming my take has some merit, what else do you do when you have a Dueterz-validated WC striker approaching records while also wanting out? You have to appease him...not sure too much is on Conte if my take is accurate. It's part of the reason I was happy to move HK on instead of potentially altering what is best for the team.
There's definitely something going this season where the LF/RF are dropping deep rather than Kane. Whether that a deliberate positive attacking tactic of ours, or just a counter tactic we've been forced to develop because of opposition defensive tactics is up for debate. Either way it's not really working, and especially so for Son.
IF that is true by your statement, sounds like Kane is willing to sacrifice others to get his and doesn't care if the team loses??
If that is true... Conte needs to go... NOW lol
Kane wants to be a line-leading striker, not the striker that drops deep because he has to or the team can't create. Conte appears to have tried to make something happen to this effect but it has not worked as well as hoped. There hasn't appeared to be any deviation from this plan, nor does there appear to be a plan b, except maybe set pieces, which is a dire prospect.
Well, I could see the logic in it if this is his last season with us...he wanted to be club top scorer I'm sure...and he didn't make a stink last summer as he did the summer before. I'm not sure I'd go to the selfishness take. We had a preseason to gameplan and train for this tactical wrinkle. I'm also not sure that doing what we did last season would have worked this season as surprise would have been expectation...similar to Mou's reign.
Deuterz
pointed out was important, he way surpassed his xG last season. If you want to take a look at the goals he scored you will see there was good fortune and not necessarily design in a lot of them. It will be important for folks to pay attention to the run in with this player in order to truly understand what he offers.
Welp, I'm ok with him and his football just going...for any reason...
And as per usual, I say shiny objects and he shall appear, what
Welp, you can argue skill...and many of the shiny object aficionados would but there's would be an unconvincing argument.
....yeah, so not worth a foreign 40M spot. This is the aspect folks need to concentrate on, team building. Locking up a non-Brexit spot with a player that isn't truly good enough to start for an ambitious team.
Now you've gone and done it...happy clappy incoming in 3.....2.....1....
Right...sooooooo, conversely, what does it say when a player more often than not is underwater of his xG? Asking for a friend...
Foreign spot, Deuterz! It is what we are dealing with right now...and as I've stated many a season ago this nonsense is used to block real team building...and he ain't getting 20 goal contribs..and even if he does it's shiny objects, man. What else does he do? And Michael Olise was 20M, English, and available...but we went here...still need HGs...
The bold is true though.
Thanks. A couple reasons he (Kulusevski) may be more valued/valuable:
No, Deuterz! I understand that he is the focus of all your fever dreams but I am not talking about your boy...and you don't have to interject him into every discussion...this is the Kulu thread and I'm talking about Kulu.
Another way of saying that is, "yes, todd, you are correct". It should be habit by now, Deuterz!
This is an oft-proffered argument but it's poor on it's face...we are also poor at getting non-Brexit talent...Deuterific solution: NO MORE TRANSFERS!!!!
Yes, yes it is...and it is one that retaining the likes of Kulu will complicate. And though you scoff at the 40M thingy it is real and he will then be kept until his amortization numbers are good relative to market or buying him out. He will be here for 5 years, a player identified even before he kicked a ball for us as probably not good enough. If that's not locking in a ceiling then I don't know what is. Are you one of Levy's influencers like VichySpurs is?
They haven't. He's making mistakes that he wasn't making last season. His crosses have become a lot less reliable, he's become indecisive, doesn't shoot after cutting inside even when the defence parts like the red sea.
