Another little bit of information from me, this time purely my opinion on the player I have watched since he was playing in our youth team. Should you sign Harry Kane, please don’t worry about him being ‘injury prone’.
In his senior career he has only had 4 ‘bad injuries’ (keeping him out for more than a month).
Biscuit ankles or similar, is what many people tag him with. It doesn’t really tell a proper story. He has had 3 bad ankle ligament injuries.. all coming from being tackled awkwardly. I’d assume you lot can remember one of them from Fabian Delph in the CL QF 1st leg. I’m sorry but if anyone’s ankle gets caught in that position, the result is an ankle ligament injury. The other 2 ankle injuries were from similar incidents. These 3 impact injuries are bad fortune, not the result of having weak ligaments.
His 4th big injury was a complete freak. As he was knocking on an offside goal he pulled up with what looked like a tweaked hammy. It turned out it he ruptured his hamstring and required surgery. As you can imagine Spurs fans freaked at the time because it was so innocuous. There were reports from medical experts at the time saying it was a 1 in a thousand injury.
I suppose it depends on your definition of ‘injury prone’. But for me Harry certainly doesn’t fit into that category. It’s not like he picks up loads of training ground niggles etc. For me an injury prone player continues to get multiple different injuries season after season. Harry played around 60 games last season for club and country!
Furthermore when he does get injured, he always seems to return before the expected date, which is a testament to how hard he works behind the scenes.
It’s the one remaining negative tag that rival fans throw at him, because he has proven every other myth wrong with his performances season after season. If you do end up signing him, quite simply THERE ARE NO NEGATIVES. I really can’t emphasise this enough. But then again you will all realise that very quickly if you get the pleasure of watching him for 90 mins week in week out.
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