El Jefe
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This just reads as if its everyone else's fault and and nothing to do with Kane at all. Again a long list of flimsy excuses because you're unwilling to hold Kane accountable to high standards.You say Bale left when he was 23, but he had the best season of his career (performance and productivity-wise) at Tottenham and they still did not win a trophy. Is that because of him or is that possibly because football is about more than just one player? Bale managed to do it at Real Madrid, but being part of a much better team couldn't have possibly made that possible, could it?
Perhaps Kyle Walker should have stopped the opposition from scoring? Game changing does not come from just scoring goals - he could have created chances (which he did at City) or made sure the team didn't concede (which he did at City). After all, you need to concede to lose a game, so how is that not game changing?
It probably seems unfair to you that I am putting the defensive responsibility entirely on Walker, but that is what you are doing with Kane up the other end. The team determines whether the club wins a tournament, not one player.
The finals that Tottenham lost, 9 times out of 10 you would predict them to lose (City and Chelsea were better teams by a country mile). That is the truth of the matter. Tottenham just aren't all that good across the team. Even their strongest team in recent years has become overrated; it actually had serious deficiencies, particularly in central midfield and the right wing (in that they didn't have one).
Regarding England, they lost the final against Italy, predominantly due to their negative mindset after the goal. They dropped so deep that even the midfield was pretty on the edge of our box. There is so much that isn't being taken into account by people, which is far too important to ignore. Tactics, manager ability, and teammates levels form the fulcrum of all successful clubs, not one player.
As I said Bale was 23 and pretty much only became a factor for Spurs in his last two and a bit seasons. You're comparing Bale from the age of 21-23 to Kane from 22-30.
Again the Kyle Walker comparison is a poor one. No one will hold Carvajal to the same standards as Benzema, this is exactly what you're doing with Walker and Kane. Walker was never the talisman or best player for Spurs, Kane has been that for years.
With the rest of your post you're essentially saying the team or manager is shit which is why he couldn't win but how did they reach those finals? You also keep dancing around the fact that myself and other posters haven't limited it to winning necessarily but the complete no shows from Kane in these moments. If he played well and lost, he wouldnt have as much heat on him but he's been anonymous in these games. Was it tactics that made him miss a penalty in ET in a WC semi final?
Top players drag their teams to win trophies especially attackers as they are the main difference makers. Benzema displayed that throughout the CL last season, Ibrahimovic made a career of this as did Drogba. Kane might have trophies if he played for a bigger club of course but he absolutely deserve criticism for not making any real impact in the biggest moments of his career so far. Even Jenas the most biased Spurs fan has admitted to that.