Hasn't Spurs record against the top 4 been an achilles heal for as long as Kane has played 1st team football? No trophies and a bad record against good opposition?
Tad better than Lukaku and he is rated very highly. What was his record against the top 5/6 PL teams? 6 or something. If Kane has scored 3 times that amount then it’s impressive for a team that flatters so often
I'd love Kane to stay in Spurs or move to City (That would block a Haaland move there next year). He is a very good striker, but he is slow and still has a lot to prove against the best teams. To be honest I don't think he will be a noticable upgrade from Jesus/old Aguero. Haaland has proven he can do it against the best (Leipzig, Bayern, CL-performances for both RBS and Dortmund 30 goals and 4 assists in 23 matches). For 100+M you should expect a massive upgrade.
Are you really saying Haaland has proven more than Kane?
Not really. His passing can be pretty good but generally he's fairly standard technically.
Maybe I do, his close control and ability on the ball isn't stand out, this is why he struggles so much under pressure and in tight situations.
Nice try! Lukaku has scored 16 and assisted 4 in 58 matches against the same top 4 teams, 15 goals and 1 assist while playing for West Brom and Everton. Pretty similar stats I would say, and just as underwhelming. Good striker too, but suffers from the same syndrome. Has some trophies in his closet though.....
No. I'm saying Haaland is the better striker and has shown a tendancy to show up in big games, and that Kane still has a lot to prove against the best teams. I can't think of a single 21 year old that doesn't have a lot to prove...
More stylistically, but also long term for sure (given their ages and fitness levels). City with Grealish on the left don't have enough runners in behind if they also get Kane. They'd lack pace and everyone would love coming short to get the ball unless they put Sterling on the right, but then he's the only guy with pace and only threat off the ball in behind the defence. Haaland is a monster with that, and he'd score at will for City more than Kane due to his style and the others all loving to play in the pockets and create. IMO a front 3 of Kane, Grealish and someone like Foden with De Bruyne behind, while all brilliant players, just wouldn't work that well. You need a Sterling, a Rashford, maybe even 2 players like that in the attack who will be more direct with their movement.
Pretty much most of the Euro, Kane gets the ball, opponents gets close to him, he runs away or loses the ball. He starts dropping deep to find space because he was doing nothing.
For a team that has creators like City, definitely. I think Haaland will smash Kane's goalscoring records.
Yeah that'll probably work in some games but it'd be so horrendously unbalanced in big games (of which there are a lot of these days) IMO. Rodri is a huge drop from Fernandinho at his peak both with the ground he can cover and ability, and Grealish isn't quite like Silva and not the same level of course so I wouldn't say that can work out the same way as it did in 2017/18. Plus you're now dropping Gundogan who was one of their players of the season and provides a very good balance next to KDB while pushing KDB deeper.
He fits their needs more with his pace and directness. Plus far younger. Plus has 57 goals in 59 games since joining Dortmund. City need a poacher up top more than anything to just get the goals since they aren't going to be using wide forwards with pace.
He was terrible at the Euros.
You must be British or a Spurs fan, right?
Did you see the stats for Kanes 2 best season of his career underneath as well? The guy was a better goalscorer than Kane will ever be at 19/20 years old. The season he just had topped Kanes career best season for Spurs, becoming topscorer in CL, winning the DFB-cup and getting the PoY award in BL, despite Lewandowski breaking a 50 year old goalscoringrecord. Kane is better at some aspects of the game for sure and is a very good player, but if you're not British or a Spursfan you can't really place him up there with the best. His record against the best is average and he still hasn't won a single trophy. Some on here thinks he finally showed what a great creator and passer of the ball he really is last season, when he clicked with an overperforming Son for some matches early last season - He got 4 assists in the last 29 games he played last season, and that is just on par with the output he's delivered the 7 seasons before that. His completed passes % was below 70, which is lower than for instance Haaland (74%).
I think Kane is a great player. Possibly the second best striker in the league the last 7 years after Aguero, and that is a pretty good complement. It's not a bad thing to be one of the best English strikers ever either. So I don't mean it as an insult when I say there are better players and striker out there in the world.
You know that half those 6 goals where penalties and 5 of those 6 goals were against Panama and Tunisia? The last goal was his penalty against Columbia and 0 goals or assists in the knockout stages other than that?
Within context. He didn't do anything impressive, he scored against crap teams as a CF.
