Harry Kane

[Tb1981]

The thing is this is exactly when people do the kind of damage they don't come back from.

12 months of football with no break, straight into friendlies and an international tournament no break straight back into another season.

Today was his 3rd in his last 12 games.

If he is bad against Ukraine/Sweden and Denmark/Croatia if it happens or a final if that happens.... are we still saying its a tiny blip?

Or is it the guy who played himself into the ground over the longest, most congested season in history and never made it back?

And most importantly do you want City to bet £120M on knowing the answer?

I most certainly would want city to spend £120m (of not my money) on the best centre forward in the league Who has just come off the back of an amazing season.
I would let him pose in his new shirt, tell him he looks a bit tired, but not to worry we won’t flog him to death like his previous club
mid day have a break, come back fresh and we’ll go and win some trophies

 

[Beanhead]

I know I hate them sort of players
They just score loads of goals consistently for years in a top league
I much prefer the guys who run around A lot and then miss easy chances

You are missing the point. Without the ball you are playing a man down. He would change the way we play.. and not for the better. And he’s showing signs or SERIOUS decline physically.

 

[Tb1981]

I’m all for Grealish pal. Just not Kane. Txiki and Pep are as good as it gets but everyone makes mistakes and If we buy him Kane he will be theirs imo. Time will tell. But just ignore his numbers for a moment and honestly look at the shape of him compared to a few seasons ago.. downward spiral mate.

Ignore his numbers!!!
You win I can’t compete with that level of insight

 

[Beanhead]

Ignore his numbers!!!
You win I can’t compete with that level of insight

Ive posted this numerous times, in the past few months. Look at Rooney around 2012-13.. numbers far outweighed his performances. He was living off the numbers but there was an evident problem with his performances and the issues were physical. Kane looks the same. He’s getting less and less able to do things he was doing every week.

Watershed moment of Kane’s career was against Scotland.. Foden wriggled out of a few challengers and slotted him clean through.. he was set free.. unfortunately his body couldn’t do what his mind wanted it to. He’s never had pace but even at the start of the season he would have held off the defender and had enough pace to carry the ball close enough to goal to shot. He couldn’t get near that.

As I said.. forget the numbers as he is lethal but those numbers will dry up as his physical condition declines.

You only need to watch his general performances to realise he is declining. Seriously Mate it’s clear as day.

 

[Summerbuzz]

Remember when Chelsea signed Fernando Torres?

He was 27 years old and had an incredible record for Liverpool and Atletico and Spain - about 200 in 350 games.

But he just looked a bit wrong for 6 months after the world cup, lost his fear factor. Chelsea thought he'd get over it. He never did.

You could write something similar about Kane, I feel like he's showing signs he might be about to drop a level. He certainly has lost any semblance of pace, so that part of his game is gone. He will adapt by dropping deeper but we arent Spurs, we dont want a striker playing 10.

He'll be good in the box still and set pieces but once you lose a dimension you become a lot easier to mark.

Yeah, you could. I wouldn't tho.

Torres's tournament was his return from injury, and he was pretty shocking. His game was always about agility and fluidity of movement, so it was a huge red flag.

He started the first group game as a sub, and was pretty much hobbling around in the next two. He was dropped until the final when he got 15 minutes in extra time.

Kane looks a bit off colour. That's about it. He's playing as lone striker in a team of youngsters, set up very conservatively, with him serving often as a distraction from the goalscoring winger.

 

[domalino]

Yeah, you could. I wouldn't tho.

Torres's tournament was his return from injury, and he was pretty shocking. His game was always about agility and fluidity of movement, so it was a huge red flag.

He started the first group game as a sub, and was pretty much hobbling around in the next two. He was dropped until the final when he got 15 minutes in extra time.

Kane looks a bit off colour. That's about it. He's playing as lone striker in a team of youngsters, set up very conservatively, with him serving often as a distraction from the goalscoring winger.

2 touches in 35 minutes.

He isn't off colour, he's hiding.

 

[Tb1981]

2 touches in 35 minutes.

He isn't off colour, he's hiding.

Hid well for the second goal mate

 

[marco]

I’m all for Grealish pal. Just not Kane. Txiki and Pep are as good as it gets but everyone makes mistakes and If we buy him Kane he will be theirs imo. Time will tell. But just ignore his numbers for a moment and honestly look at the shape of him compared to a few seasons ago.. downward spiral mate.

for 100 million or more you have to take into account how he is performing now, we know he can do it on the big stage thats if you include spuds as the big stage but will he regain the level he had a couple of seasons ago, we should not realy be spending 100m in the hope he reproduces what he has done previous, for that kind of money it should be risk free and he should be fitting into the squad and hit the ground running, his dip in form is a big concern also his ankle problems, the possibility of the transfer and size of the fee could be playing on his mind, he may well be the next Fernando Torres type transfer if were not carefull

 

[Coatigan]

Hid well for the second goal mate

Oh wow, he scored.

Same amount of goals in the toutmament as Zinchenko.

 

[jamesha]

Remember when Chelsea signed Fernando Torres?

He was 27 years old and had an incredible record for Liverpool and Atletico and Spain - about 200 in 350 games.

But he just looked a bit wrong for 6 months after the world cup, lost his fear factor. Chelsea thought he'd get over it. He never did.

You could write something similar about Kane, I feel like he's showing signs he might be about to drop a level. He certainly has lost any semblance of pace, so that part of his game is gone. He will adapt by dropping deeper but we arent Spurs, we dont want a striker playing 10.

He'll be good in the box still and set pieces but once you lose a dimension you become a lot easier to mark.

Chelsea played a very different game from Liverpool at the time which did not play to Torres' strengths. I agree that he was declining as a player but Chelsea's style of play was not great for him.