Harry Kane MBE | Performances

There is something about him or his game that is so bland that it's hard to get excited if we ever go for him. He can certainly score goals though i give you that
 
With Kane it's also important to remember how young he really is. He's still just 23, an age when most top level strikers are just finally starting to have big seasons.

Lewandowski scored 8 league goals in his age 22 season in the Bundesliga, jumping to 22 in his age 23 season.
Diego Costa scored 6 league goals in his age 22 season, and then went out on loan for his age 23 season scoring 10 goals.
Luis Suarez was still in the Netherlands in his age 22 and 23 seasons, it wasn't until the middle of his age 24 season he even came to the PL.

Kane to this point has been extremely precocious - he's just now reaching the age that most top strikers really started their ascent. We'll see what he does as he enters his prime over the next 4-5 seasons, but he's got plenty of room to continue to grow as a player.
Yes, he's incredible. But he's also the type that won't attract clubs like Madrid and Barcelona. So if Spurs manage to remain competitive and pay him well, they can keep hold of him for a long while. It will be interesting to see how Spurs get on in the next few years.
 
There is something about him or his game that is so bland that it's hard to get excited if we ever go for him. He can certainly score goals though i give you that
FFS, goals alone should be enough to get us excited. It's not like we've had an abundance of them lately! Unfortunately, I don't see him coming here.
 
Amongst all this hype, has anyone even vaguely suggested that Leicester having their 2 centre backs injured probably helped a lot!
 
Don't get me wrong I wasn't bashing him, I was just pointing out its easier to score in that side, especially without the pressure of being literally the only player in the side that scores goals.

On the flip side he was going into the season as a 22 year old with the hopes of a club and a new stadium somewhat weighted on his shoulders.

I look at Zlatan coming into United with no pressure. A legend of the game regardless of performances looking for a final big money swansong. To me he scored 65% of Kane's goals on 3 times the money. Therefore doing the bear minimum in my view for a guy on a salary putting him amongst the world's best. He'll now fade into the background as a successful hero for doing very little in the scheme of things.

I don't agree it's easier to score in this Spurs side or that the pressure is greater. I believe that when Kane, or Alli for that matter have been 1v1 with a goalkeeper they've tended to score. When United players were in the same predicament they've tended to miss more often than not, with Zlatan certainly leading the way in this sense. That being a seasoned professional vs a youthful "flash in the pan".

When I read the Spurs posts after West Ham I had a slight chuckle to myself. Talk of Spurs "bottling" it is rather ironic when you see the likes of Zlatan "bottling" it on a weekly basis costing us maybe a dozen points the 3-4 months around Xmas. Yet Spurs bottled it for one poor performances in several months.

TL;DR - This season if you switched the performaces of Kane and Zlatan it would be the perfectly cliched story of the seasoned professional finishing the vast majority of his chances and leading his team to new heights vs the naive but talented young lad who did well but ultimately missed lots of key chances and if it wasn't for his age you'd say he let the team down.
 
Kane is the real deal. I feel sorry for whomever tries to negotiate with Levy over buying him, because he will absolutely cost the earth. He doesn't have the big name of the likes of Griezmann or Aubameyang, but he's shown for three seasons now that he can excel in the Premier League. I'm really intrigued to see how this Spurs team can do in the Champions League next season. I think they will have learned from their experiences in europe this season.

I think that if Spurs can keep Pochettino, and they don't sell any of Erikson, Alli, and Son, they could certainly become an even more serious title challenger. The Spurs first eleven doesn't need too much strengthening, for them I think it's more about the overall squad and ensuring they have the right quality to balance challenging for the league and being in europe too. If they lose Kane, they are going to need to go big on signing a striker, and it might unsettle a few of the players too.

I'd absolutely love to have Kane here, and Levy would probably want Griezmann or Lukaku kinds of money for him, which we are clearly okay with paying, so it's worth a try at least.
 
His driven low shooting technique is 1 of the best I have seen.

The way he can hit it so hard, but keep it daisy-cutter low and into the corners is a special ability.
He loves to drop off the defensive line, pick up the ball and smash it hard and low.

He was never my favourite striker, but as a poacher you just cannot argue his numbers. If he can stay injury free I can see him scoring 30 goals a season pretty regularly.
I'm sure that's a Spurs thing, I always remember thinking Defoe and Bale used to score lots of them when they were there.
 
By the age of 24 he'll likely have 100 Premier League goals (he's got 75 now). Only 26 players in the history of the league have scored that many.
 
Amongst all this hype, has anyone even vaguely suggested that Leicester having their 2 centre backs injured probably helped a lot!

Morgan and Huth? They've been horrendous this season and are bog average players.
 
Amongst all this hype, has anyone even vaguely suggested that Leicester having their 2 centre backs injured probably helped a lot!
Oh Leicester were shocking defensively, no question, but you have top pay some respect to Kane's overall season. To get 26 goals in a season when you spent a good couple of months out through injury is a huge achievement. I honestly believe he's one of the top 5 or 6 strikers in Europe right now.
 
Not like Bournemouth's defense was amazing when Lukaku scored 4 goals against them either.
 
His driven low shooting technique is 1 of the best I have seen.

The way he can hit it so hard, but keep it daisy-cutter low and into the corners is a special ability. He loves to drop off the defensive line, pick up the ball and smash it hard and low.

Yeah. Only Messi comes to mind for me in the last 10-15 years. I feel like Kroos could do it but he's generally hitting first-time shots and doesn't try to hit it near as hard.
 
With Kane it's also important to remember how young he really is. He's still just 23, an age when most top level strikers are just finally starting to have big seasons.

Lewandowski scored 8 league goals in his age 22 season in the Bundesliga, jumping to 22 in his age 23 season.
Diego Costa scored 6 league goals in his age 22 season, and then went out on loan for his age 23 season scoring 10 goals.
Luis Suarez was still in the Netherlands in his age 22 and 23 seasons, it wasn't until the middle of his age 24 season he even came to the PL.

Kane to this point has been extremely precocious - he's just now reaching the age that most top strikers really started their ascent. We'll see what he does as he enters his prime over the next 4-5 seasons, but he's got plenty of room to continue to grow as a player.
I'm not saying Kane has peaked, but I don't see him getting a lot better than he is now. Just experience and consistency to add imo.
 
His driven low shooting technique is 1 of the best I have seen.

The way he can hit it so hard, but keep it daisy-cutter low and into the corners is a special ability. He loves to drop off the defensive line, pick up the ball and smash it hard and low.

He was never my favourite striker, but as a poacher you just cannot argue his numbers. If he can stay injury free I can see him scoring 30 goals a season pretty regularly.

Whats impressive is the way he drags across the ball yet still be in control of it, its very deceiving to the keeper. It almost seems like luck but he does it a lot. He doesn't hit the ball as true as someone like Shearer tho, imo
 
Kane is the real deal. I feel sorry for whomever tries to negotiate with Levy over buying him, because he will absolutely cost the earth. He doesn't have the big name of the likes of Griezmann or Aubameyang, but he's shown for three seasons now that he can excel in the Premier League. I'm really intrigued to see how this Spurs team can do in the Champions League next season. I think they will have learned from their experiences in europe this season.

They'll bottle it.

Alternatively, they'll get through to the QF and ruin their PL campaign in doing so.

Teams like Spuds and Liverpool are better off out of Europe.

If Spuds hadn't been in Europe the last 2 seasons they'd have probably won the PL one of them - CL football for clubs of that size suits the chairmen, not the fans, though most are too pompous to admit this to themselves.
 
Go back a few months when he played a bad game after his injury and read the reaction here....

He's one of the best strikers in the world.
 
29 goals when he's missed a handful of games is ridiculous. Incredible striker.
 
Kane has 4 hat tricks in 2017 alone. Tevez, Torres, le Tissier, Defoe, Sheringham, Ferdinand, etc ... all of them had 4 each in their entire PL careers.
 
I only watch a handful of Tottenham games per season, but Kane has somehow never impressed me.

That being said, his numbers are undeniably great. Perhaps we should break the bank for him?
 
If he stays in the Premier League he's in with a very strong chance to break Shearer's record. I believe he's also about to hit 100 goals for Spurs too.