He’s got 9 goals this season and still been gash though
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Ex-Spurs Player Harry Kane
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It may have been the wrong decision by Pochettino and the coaching staff, but it wasn't by Kane. Footballer willingly to play match isn't a bad decision, it's just what is expected of him. There's no blame that can be placed at his door.
And honestly, the team was on the slide before that. Our league form was crap the second half of the season, we were propped up by a cup run. A number of key players were on decline and Pochettino's time was coming to an end. Putting it all on that decision is extremely harsh.
Scores in bunches against inferior teams but can't measure up against any decent/good opposition.
World class flat track bully. I'll give him that.
Anyway, looks like our best player doesn't have COVID so we won't have to rely on Kane. Great news.
I'm not pointing blame at anyone. I'm just saying it was the wrong decision.
Just like it's always the wrong decision whenever Kane takes a free kick
Yes but you did say 'look how that ended'....
But understandable given the enormity of the actual game
Kane assured Poch he was fit when he knew that he wasn’t but hoped for glory
Poch believed him and Lucas who got us to the final was left on the bench
Like I said on another thread
It’s all about Kane and fuck everyone else
I agree that the team was on the slide for various reasons but my point about Kane stands
Yes I did.
It's a warning how an obsession can remove all reason from a person and therefore intuitively it should make sense to let the obsession go, Before a compulsion overcomes the obsessed nut job consumed by it.
You're comparing Sammy to a murderer. You're going to get binned.
You should get binned for existing tbf. Obnoxious so and so.
The bold is down to the medical team to decide. They will have ran extensive fitness tests when Kane returned. He would have trained, and if he looked off the pace then Pochettino/the coaching staff could have seen that and acted.
Blame them if you want, not the player. The likelihood is he felt absolutely fine but then lacked sharpness for such a huge game, and lacking a little bit of sharpness will always cost you up against a monster like Van Djik.
You’re talking about an ideal world
I bet the final decision was Kane’s who was desperate to play
After his lengthy injury how many games did he play prior to the cal final?
There’s your answer
Disgraceful comment comparing a murderer to a poster just because you don’t agree with him!
Carded
The final decision is ALWAYS up to the coach. He probably was desperate to play, but if at any point Pochettino thought he wasn't ready, then as the manager he makes the decision.
I'm not gonna blame a player for wanting to play in one of the biggest games in world football. In that scenario it's up to his manager to make a decision for the best of the team and for the players own good.
The only way it would be Kane's fault is if he bullied Pochettino or used his influence in the squad against him. But I highly doubt that is the case, instead its more likely a manager with a close relationship to the player who rated him very highly, decided to take a risk. And it didn't work out.
Oh dear.
The bottom of the barrel has been reached
Honestly, it could be contractual reasons. I think the whole Kane taking free kicks thing is written in his contract as well. There's no explanation for it.
More likely is that we have mostly not very good free kick takers at the club, and the star man who is addicted to goals grabs the ball.
If it's always the manager's decision can't the manager just say Harry, you're 1 for 1000 taking free kicks. No one can possibly be worse than you. GTFO.
At the time HK signed his last deal Eriksen was still taking our FKs (and the likes of Trippier and Dier were also deputising) so it won't be contractual....
Just like it won't be in his contract that he reserves the right to play when he's not fit.
He certainly could, but it would probably require another player stepping up to the plate and showing he's good at them. I can only assume if someone was banging them in during training, they'd be given the taker duty.
Ronaldo takes every FK for every team he plays for, despite statistically sucking at them. He even took them off Dybala at Juve, who is genuinely great at them. So an egotistical goal hungry forward taking every opportunity they can to score isn't unheard of.
Right now I dunno who else would be better for us. The other taker always seems to be Dier because he smashed one in for England once. When we lost Eriksen and Trippier, our set piece taking abilities plummeted.