Torres will be even better next season after a slow start but good numbers this season, so that wouldn’t be going backwards. Also it’s been said we were serious about Haaland for months, and Mbappe has a year left on his contract, both of them would suit us more than Kane and we’d be daft not to be seriously looking at them. They’re two I’d rather have than Kane.
Rating someone the best is an opinion. Can argue all day but can’t prove either way. We want a striker, we want the best of the best. Assists are ignored because that clearly proves he isn’t just a goal scoring machine. He’s an all round player because he does both. Unsure what’s being missed, you want him to take on 5 men, meg the last man and bang it in the top corner? As long as he scores that’s all I care about, which he would do for fun
That isn’t the fucking point
Well done on writing something constructive not filled with lies or nonsense. I think the only thing ignored with his numbers is the size of them. We all got hard over agueros goals to minutes ratio, guess who’s number one now aguero has left? It’s not a couple we are talking about it’s consistently scoring a hat full, 3 golden boots…I'm not ignoring goals. I'm pointing out other players score as many or more goals, when people use numbers to argue he is the best of the best and anyone that thinks otherwise is a moron.
I do think he is an excellent goal scorer, a great all round player. He lacks pace and he is also older than the profile the club would normally pay big for, but that's for them to worry about. I do also think he is not a game changer, in the sense he won't singlehandedly produce moments out of nothing that win games. Big or otherwise.
It is ok to rate Kane, and not think he is the right signing, particularly when that kind of money can but real top players.
As much as you get irritated with exaggerating his shortcomings and some of the apparent cliches, I respond to over the top bigging him up. For every 'he goes missing in big games' there is an equal and oppisite 'best striker in the league, guaranteed 40 goals'. Or 'he plays in a poor spurs side' whic incidentally reached a CL final, came close to winning the league and reached a cup final playing to his strengths.
The truth is probably somewhere in the middle, by the time you strip off the exaggeration on both sides. And even then, it is, for me, not good enough for the 100m+ it would cost.
Same as the vote at the top of the page.Exactly. It is opinion.
People band it about aggressively like it is a quantfiable fact that he is the best. It is not. And he is not, in my opinion.
And while we are at it, that opinion is fairly evenly split, looking at this thread.
That’s a valid point and I don’t think that many people would disagree with taking Mbappe or Haaland over Kane.
What’s stupid though is when people say that if Mbappe or Haaland are unavailable, they’d rather give Torres a chance than sign Kane.
Well done on writing something constructive not filled with lies or nonsense. I think the only thing ignored with his numbers is the size of them. We all got hard over agueros goals to minutes ratio, guess who’s number one now aguero has left? It’s not a couple we are talking about it’s consistently scoring a hat full, 3 golden boots…
In 2019-20 Tammy Abraham scored 15 goals and got 3 assists in 34 games.I must have missed that, when ?
When Bony was with Swansea he was known as “The Statue of Liberty”.I probably started the Bony stuff off : )
I ain’t going off just the Euro’s.
I don’t think he’s a big game player, I think he goes missing over 90 minutes of games, not just against top opposition, some of which he scores in and glosses over his 90 minutes.
I mentioned the 3 games as he looked like he had lead boots on, went missing and wasn’t involved at all.
Then people mention no service, system etc..
but maybe it’s just me that wants more to his all round game for a £130m+ player.
Having watched him play I can see the resemblance.When Bony was with Swansea he was known as “The Statue of Liberty”.
Swansea’s stadium is called The Liberty hence the nameHaving watched him play I can see the resemblance.
Though I've never seen The Statue of Liberty stood watching everyone run about while stood in the centre circle.
Other strikers have scored more goals than him, 3 out of the last 4 seasons. or 5 of the 7 in total he has been playing top level.
He is certainly amongst the top. For 100m+, bit of a stretch.
He‘s always in the top 3 or 4 every season though, so even if he gets a couple of goals fewer than the top scorer it still means he‘s consistently a great goalscorer which is what we currently lack.
He only plays that way at Spurs because of Mourinho. He was the focal point to start counter attacks, but we don't play like Mourinho's teams. Kane would probably only drop deep when teams high press, but all our strikers do this regardless. Aguero and Jesus drop back to be an extra man to help progress the ball.So if Kane did sign how do you think the team will be set up? He does a good job for Spurs dropping deep and finding runners (normally Son) but I cannot see him doing that for City as that would conflict with the areas that our dual 8's do their best work not to mention inverted wingers coming in-field.
The fact that Sterling was reportedly offered as a swap also seems to preclude that as he would be the natural runner to play the Son role (if only he was as good in 1-v-1 situations).
I am sure that Pep and co. would know exactly how they would use him however that is I think we would see a big change in the way we play.
Your first mistake is thinking either of them have a valid opinion.You go on Rawk or RagCafe and they are complimentary of Kane, hope it's not a sign of arrogance creeping into our fanbase players wise.
Face palm moment, arrogance in full effect.Your first mistake is thinking either of them have a valid opinion.