2 games no Kane. 6 points, 0 goals conceded.
West Ham parked the bus today at home and got away with 3 points... it's a funny old game.
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Ex-Spurs Player Harry Kane
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West Ham parked the bus today at home and got away with 3 points... it's a funny old game.
No Kane is why we conceded no goals? Or maybe you can't judge a team based on 2 whole matches?
West Ham created more than twice our xG today, they let us have possession but committed numbers to the attack and were never sieged the way we were against Wolves or City. Most of the possession we had was in harmless areas.
You seem to be getting needlessly pre-occupied by a few fan voices and somehow extrapolating them to being what the club was thinking.
For what it's worth. We went undefeated against 7 teams this season (including pre season) without Kane. We had games against City, Woolwich, Chelsea, and Wolves during that 7 game span. We actually looked to have decent chemistry/flow in our game during that stretch.
We got lucky with City, being the first game of the season. They would beat us at a canter now, with or without Kane. And let's not forget they genuinely should have been about 4 up after 15 minutes. The new manager effect bubble has long since burst.
I've never paid attention to pre-season and never will. Nothing more than a chance for teams to get fit. I remember one pre-season where United under LVG won every single one of their games beating sides like Madrid, Liverpool and Bayern whilst playing great football, soon as the season started it was his stale possession shit.
Sell Kane as he doesn't want to be at the club, bring in quality alongside Son. If we wanna rely on Bergwijn/Son/Lucas till then fine but the overwhelming likelihood is we will score very few goals. It's not going to be pretty either way.
Again, it remains to be seen if that's true or not. We can only go off past results and see if we delivered decent results without Kane. And as I've posted more than dozens of time on this thread, we've performed slightly better without Kane (as long as Son is playing) over a stretch of ~30 games / last 3 seasons.
Since 18/19 season w/o Kane but w/ Son playing
Premier League
12 Wins
2 Draws
5 Losses
*19 matches, 38 points
Champions League
Dortmund (1 leg) - Advance
Man City (x2 legs) - Advance
Ajax (x2 legs) - Advance
Europa League
Lask (1 leg) - Win
FA Cup
Middlesbrough - Advance
Southampton - Advance
Yeah I don't disagree with what you're saying but to say that we'd be shit without Kane or would fall off a cliff simply isn't true. Or at least that's what the past data/stats show.
Agree. Toney is slower than Kane as well, so anyone complaining about mobility and speed up front will have to look elsewhere
While the likes of Lucas Moura and Bergwijn are consistently getting game time, we'll continue to get nowhere as a football club. Not that they are our only problems.
The 'club' were thinking everything will be fine with a striker that doesnt want to be here as our only striker while not even replacing Vinicius or Bale. Seriously stupid.
The fact that you're expecting ENIC/Levy to be competent and arguing with an ENIC/Levy employee is ridiculous. Just put him on ignore.
Kane played today, we lost, blanked again and his mark scored on a corner.
I've seen a range of xG figures for today's match... which one are you talking about?
We're already basically hanging off the edge with one finger, buddy. We won't fall off without him but I don't think we'll see any improvement by dropping him. Maybe the overall team unit will benefit from it, but I'm doubtful of that still.
And several other outlets have posted basically the same figures.
Different conversation (That's got nothing to do with all the stuff you were just chatting about cunt fans and price-tags!).
I wholeheartedly agree that not buying another senior goal-scorer was a fundamental flaw in our transfer window.
Trusting Kane to knuckle down.... Less so. We needed the above regardless.
We'll just have to try it out for a couple games and see what happens I guess
Every time Kane has gone out we've stepped up as a team and performed relatively well
We were garbage against Wolves and Watford. We got wins but the performances were bad, especially in the latter game. Just nothing from a creative standpoint but their keeper happened to basically flap at a free kick so we squeaked it.
If we play like we did in those games, long term we won't get many points.
Kane started in that Watford game...