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Ex-Spurs Player Harry Kane

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Nope, but city will break even more records with a player like Kane. Now Aguero is finished, they don’t have a 30 goal a season striker. With Kane they get that and they would dominate with him. Kane would also break records and win trophies, which will debunk the myth that he’s some sort of bottler. Spurs are a bunch of bottlers as a group, but if we had 11 Harry Kane’s, we wouldn’t be in this position. His attitude is first class. He’s head and shoulders above any Spurs player. His goal scoring record is stupendous. He leaves, this club reverts back to mid table it’s as simple as that
Life will go on and there will still be a Tottenham Hotspur Football Club after Harry, whether that is at the end of this season, next season or in 5 or 6 years time if he finishes out his career here as a one club man.

There was a club here before Harry as well. We finished 5th, 6th, 4th, 5th, 4th in the five seasons 2009-10 to 2013-14, immediately preceding Harry’s breakthrough season 2014-15, we won the League Cup in 2007-08 and finished 5th in both 2005-06 and 2006-07.

He’s been a great servant and goal scorer but it’s dangerous to go down the road of cult following of one player. We’ve lost big players before - Bale, Modric, Gascoigne, Lineker and Hoddle. Life went on then.

This talk that we’d be a relegation side if Harry goes is just silly and hysterical. Bar an outlier of a season in 2016/17 when we finished 2nd with 86 points, we’ve more or less operated at the same level as we did in the decade prior to Harry’s emergence - in or around the high 60’s/low 70’s points wise and hovering around the Top 4 mark.
 
You and Sammy sound like Woolwich fans.
Bit harsh. I'm trying to look at this objectively. Although sammyspurs puts the point across in quite a jarring way, it's an opinion I'm prepared to consider all available evidence for to come to my own conclusion.

I'm a massive fan of Kane, but in a way feel like Spurs suit his level. Becoming our all time top scorer and getting a statue is what I hope for him - but can't ignore the reality of his statistical track record be it goals scored per season, or input in big games.

My mind is never set in stone. Convince me otherwise, bring new arguments to the table. I could argue for or against Kane in different situations, but without considering the more negative side of things you won't be able to form a rounded opinion I would suggest.

If Wes Brown contributed to those trophies then he deserves the acolades

He was never a great player. Averaged 25 games per season over 14 years.
He did start in the 08 final to be fair, but he is often my 'go to' example of a bang average player that won more trophies than some of the most talented footballers in history.
Sure he 'deserved them' as a playing part of those sides, but put him in a squad with 25 players of Wes Brown ability and they wouldn't have won very much.
 
He was never a great player. Averaged 25 games per season over 14 years.
He did start in the 08 final to be fair, but he is often my 'go to' example of a bang average player that won more trophies than some of the most talented footballers in history.
Sure he 'deserved them' as a playing part of those sides, but put him in a squad with 25 players of Wes Brown ability and they wouldn't have won very much.
Wes Brown was the Ben Davies of that side.

Fergie did great work with players like that, he always knew where a reliable, understated performer could do a job and allow his stars to thrive.
 
Bit harsh. I'm trying to look at this objectively. Although sammyspurs puts the point across in quite a jarring way, it's an opinion I'm prepared to consider all available evidence for to come to my own conclusion.

I'm a massive fan of Kane, but in a way feel like Spurs suit his level. Becoming our all time top scorer and getting a statue is what I hope for him - but can't ignore the reality of his statistical track record be it goals scored per season, or input in big games.

My mind is never set in stone. Convince me otherwise, bring new arguments to the table. I could argue for or against Kane in different situations, but without considering the more negative side of things you won't be able to form a rounded opinion I would suggest.



He was never a great player. Averaged 25 games per season over 14 years.
He did start in the 08 final to be fair, but he is often my 'go to' example of a bang average player that won more trophies than some of the most talented footballers in history.
Sure he 'deserved them' as a playing part of those sides, but put him in a squad with 25 players of Wes Brown ability and they wouldn't have won very much.

I don't feel the need to convince you of anything. You and Sammy are the equivalent of Flat Earthers trying to convince us that Kane is gash. The majority of the rest of the world disagrees, even non Spurs fans
 
Tottenham striker and England captain Harry Kane, 27, is willing to join Spanish giants Barcelona, but the Nou Camp hierarchy would prefer to sign Borussia Dortmund's Norwegian forward Erling Braut Haaland, 20. (Sport)
 
I don't feel the need to convince you of anything. You and Sammy are the equivalent of Flat Earthers trying to convince us that Kane is gash. The majority of the rest of the world disagrees, even non Spurs fans

I'm not saying Kane is gash.
He's a top class striker that for one reason or another has failed to produce stats or performances of the level we have grown to expect in our season defining games where we have won or lost.
 
Take away Kane's goals and we don't qualify for the CL any season in the last 6 years and we aren't involved any titles races. We fell short in 16/17 because of injuries to Kane.

I think Kane ultimately has to leave to be appreciated by some. Same with Lloris.

In our last two finals we've played the best two teams in the World at the time.

"has to leave to be appreciated"...

So many people (like myself) who admit right now that he might be the best striker to play in Spurs shirt that we'll see during our lives. But you say one thing about him that is not positive and it means that he is not appreciated automatically. What an overreaction.

It is guaranteed that we'll get a downgrade in his position.

Absolutely - without teams best striker goals we would have gotten worse results. But in terms of mentalty and being that greatest of the greatest, it would be useful to score against those Belgiums and Croatias as well, not only Tunisias and Panamas....
 
There wouldn't even be a line to get over had it not been for Kane the past 6 or so years, why do we have to ignore all his contributions year in year out and whittle it down to those 3 cup finals he didn't score in, where the entire team shat the bed.

No, of course no one calls to ignore those goals.
These have been very valuable. And Kane is world class striker. We will miss him badly. No arguments here.

Just the point being - he has not proved himself to be the man of the hour in most crutial games.

Just as youself said - "entire team shat the bed" . And that includes Kane as well. Thats all.
No one is saying that he shat it worse. Or he shat it more. Or he should be blamed - absolutely not. He should be blamed lot less, but he still was part of the team and excpected leader of the team that shat itself.
 
On 2016/17 and 2017/18 we had the goalkeeper and back four that conceded the fewest goals in the league and we had a bloody good midfield too. We still didn’t win anything.

Harry is all but guaranteed to fill his boots with trophies and medals at either Chavs or Citeh so good luck to him if he goes down that route.

Man U possibly a more interesting challenge. If he went there and scored 20 league goals and they won the league for the first time in 9 years, he’s clearly the difference between winning and not winning the league as they’ve finished an average of 23 points behind the champions since Sir Alex departed on 2013. Not convinced they’re winning big anytime soon though, at least as long as Solskjaer is at the helm.
I hate the thought of him joining another PL side and being booed when he comes to the Lane. Hopefully, if it does happen. our supporters will give him a great welcome
 
I know people defend Harry and his performances, his ambitions and what have you, with religious fervour, but I am at breaking point with him. I actually get angry just thinking about it. People bite their tongues on this, because they know what they will have to face, and sure, there are some trolls knocking around this place. I long for the days of a more mobile striker who can/will press, for starters. It will be less controversial to go into detail on this if he leaves.

Shane Long has been as mobile as any forward in his career, would you rather have had him up front instead of Kane over the years?

Some right numpties here.
 
Kane would be better served being less greedy, I think that's fair to say.

I know strikers are meant to be greedy, but are they meant to drop deep and follow play around the pitch just to get involved?

Perhaps if Kane stayed up front and stopped running round the pitch plugging gaps our awful midfield should be filling, it would be better for both Kane himself and the team.

Greedy yet currently leads the way for assists...

Give your head a wobble. If Kane didn't drop deep at times and actually create for others such as Son, we'd probably be fighting off relegation for fucks sake.
 
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