One of the 6 midfielders
The striker they've won 4 league titles with??
So you think adding Kane to a team that has McFred and Lindelof as starters is going to just instantly go from an inconsistent team to title challengers?
7 of 0-0 draws in the league this season with McFred and Lindelof.
It's easy to pin point at the stats and think one player will magically improve us but it very rarely works that way. You could look at it alternatively and say a new CB and DM add balance to the team that allows our attackers to go all out with more freedom in a more coherent system. Adding Kane to a team with McFred and Lindelof papers over cracks it doesn't fully solve the problem. We'll still have a soft defence, our midfield will still be technically limited players will have to continue to drop deep as a result of it. That won't close the gap on City or increase it on a more settled Liverpool/Chelsea team
Aguero was absolutely in his best XI most of their time together when healthy.
The midfield is a big reason for those 0-0s.
️Because Greenwood has shown what in the middle at any level? I get that Greenwood is a great striker of the ball, but its no coincidence that he looks great played out wide and at best average down the middle. There are very few players who move from wide to central, Henry being the exception that instantly comes to mind, but I am not sure Henry could have played on his own up front and been as effective (he would still be good). Greenwood has not played centrally even as a youth player, or at least not for any run, and has always been most effective coming from off the edge of the box.
It’s probably going to be both.
Fair point. Unless he moves to United.
Well that’s the sycamore isn’t it?
That's not how football works. Do you remember when Chelsea won back to back titles and got Sheva and Ballack to their already crazy good squad. All thought no one will come close and then with just Saha as our only main addition, we won the league and got to the CL final. That was the first of 3 league titles on the trot for us.
Of course you don't need to solve the full problems but the problems we have in defence and midfield are too big to ignore completely they'll come to haunt us at some point in the season. If Kane came in with at least one of a starting CB or DM you'd have a point but him alone will not make us title winners. His price tag and our owners however means if he came in he'd be our only signing and that would not be a wise decision at all
That's not true in the slightest. Loads of wide forwards make the transition into strikers later in their careers. Henry, Van Persie, even Ronaldo to some degree, David Villa, Eto, Rooney. In fact, I'd argue a larger proportion of strikers started off as wide players than those that started straight as a striker. Greenwood has also played consistently down the middle in the youth sides including as a central striker in his final youth team season where he bagged for fun. The challenge for a young player is learning how to use your body in the man's game against physical centre backs and there are signs that Greenwood is improving in that area. Against Leicester last week was one of his best performances in a central role and he looked every bit the senior player in that team, whilst also scoring a brilliant goal.
Many of those 0-0s were dour games where we struggled to create much. Some games our midfield struggled to retain control, we struggled to find our forward players or maintain any sort of territory.
I have not said I don't want Kane. But top clubs don't depend on their striker scoring a lot of goals from minimum number of chances. They create and create. To reach the top, that's the first hurdle we have to cross.
Lets agree to disagree. I personally think we need a lot more than Kane to bridge the gap with City.
