Nobody said that. We are missing a lot of things of course. But one thing among that is a proven goal scorer. And with all due respect to defenders, full backs and wingers, striker is the most important position in every team.
In the proud tradition of Fergie then. One of the most memorable things I read on here... Strikers score goals, Wingers provide for the Strikers, Defenders stop strikers. Midfielders, whats their purpose.
I personally don't think this is the case but of course, a great goal scorer can help to improve the environment for everybody. In our position right now, yes we probably would have scored a few more goals, but all the other factors that are kicking in right now, would still be an issue. Moments FC would last a little longer. And that of the cost of a big bunch of our budget, preventing us from bringing in other much needed reinforcements.
The only one repeating that nonsense is you. I said we would be in a better state, never meaning that it’s all we need.
Fair enough, I was a little more polemic than necessary. But at the core, I'd go as far as saying I might have stopped actively following football if United would have went for Kane. It would be proof that we have learned nothing over the years. It would be a premium price to get a questionable short term effect. Thats not a great way to run a club. Especially not us who are in the shits because of a whole series of bad decisions like that.
He probably is still in cooko land and waits on Onana to improve our build up, pressing and goslscoring. Failing to see that Onana is absolute crap at about everything.
Do you question the fact, that DDG was shit with the ball at his feet? I don't think so. So we needed a new keeper. I personally wouldn't have went for Onana but his underlying numbers are alright and his footwork is unmatched. He is a player of ours now, better get over it.
But to be clear..we would have been far better?
Say to the point where a January window of reinforcements could help us maintain a push for top 4, and the next summer window could help us build a stable young core to build around, and then subsequently build on that team for 3 season until eventually Kane would have to be replaced and a new striker could come into an established cohesive unit?
Nobody knows how many seasons are in Kane at this point in time. From what we know, he already hindered Spurs' pressing game, do you think, this will get better when he gets older? At this point in time, we should ask ourselves, if we would really benefit from Top4 or even Top8 because it'd save us Europe for a year to focus on ourselves. Most of you seem to be under the impression that the only steps possible to improve a team are via transfers but that is wrong. It is also work on the training pitch. And as anybody on here knows, we seriously need that. No matter if for some players not even that would work out. We are caught in an endless circle of short term success but longterm progress. Something will have to give at some point. Our competitors are far away, Kane, not even Osimhen would change an iota of that as long as we aren't capable of improving the other areas.
I think everybody would like to see Kane playing with us. Even at that age. But not at the price of being severly restricted later down the line. The next big rebuild is on the horizon guys, Varane, Bruno, Shaw, Maguire, Lindelof, Eriksen. Even the cheap punts don't look like actual candidates looking at Amrabat or Malacia... Don't even want to begin with the chapter of our right side... Fullback and Winger...
As long as budget is restricted (and that will be the case with FFP in place) we are not at a point where we have to luxury to shop from the upper shelf. And Kane at 30 at 100 million is the definition of luxury item.