Kane hasn't had any poor games this season, I mean he ended the season on fire...
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Kane hasn't had any poor games this season, I mean he ended the season on fire...
I think he has had equally as good a season as Kane.
Kane needs another season getting near-guaranteed first team football at a club with less pressures than Utd, both for his development and for us to be sure of his ability to sustain form.
Benteke wouldnt recoup his outlay? Do you think he is 30 years old? Dude both are WAY cheaper than Kane and have scored goals at a reasonable basis for more than a season in the EPL. I also dont believe one bad game in a national shirt nor a bad cup final in which your team was taken through a football clinic is relevant. Else we should be rubbishing Kane for his OT display when we slaughtered Spurs. Kane needs another season doing at least half of what he did this year before people can seriously contemplate taking him off Spurs.
Right, yes I suggested him myself several time to a thunderous silence. He's a good forward option but i think he may be as good as he's going to get. Decent third striker option for us to replace Hernandez. I don't see him stepping into the main man role though, filling an injured Rooney's boots, is what we need this summer. I'd have more faith in Kane, personally.
You need to read what I said - in terms of marketability, merchandise, putting his face on things, using him as a marketing tool - Kane wins hands down.
You need to read what I said. Benteke was a passionless void for Villa's last month, in the FA Cup Final & again, playing for his country. I think Kane is more honest, more likely to give his all than that lazy git.
OK so both examples still have time to come good so bad examples, and neither actually matched Kane's figure..
I think some are really underrating the quality of Kane's intelligence and all round game, but Levy vs Woodward sounds like a summer wasted.
No.1 you said or has done similarly, note also Lukaku was younger.
Anyway it proves the point that 3 years on neither are considered top strikers, and there is even more doubt about them now then there were back when they were younger.
It proves the point that after one season, we don't know if Kane is the real deal. Not saying he isn't, just saying acting like he is, is a bit silly
You didnt read my post properly either. Citing two games to label a player lazy and unmarketable doesnt cut it. Especially in one in which his team was utterlly schooled. I also dont see a single thing that would make a delivering Kane more marketable than a delivering Beneteke in a United shirt. Kane is a one season wonder as it stands now. He also doesnt possess a Rooney level of talent to be worth a 50m outlay after one season. Id rather he stays at Spurs another year before big clubs start messing with his head
It amazes me that some here think Benteke is good enough for us.
Not sure if anyone said that tbh, I think some said they would prefer him to Kane at this moment.
Work in advertising for 24 years & you'd know.
The fact he is English actually makes him more marketable, also Benteke isn't that media likeable, like Kane has been.
We've finished above Liverpool in most of the last few seasons, including two top-four finishes, so it's hardly "delusions of grandeur" to think that Spurs will continue to be contenders for top 4 in the next few seasons. And then our new stadium will be completed and thus our income levels will rise substantially.
True, our academy and emphasis on youth development is no guarantee of success, but it has already proved not be an abject failure - witness Kane, Rose, Mason and Bentaleb all arriving in the first XI. This coming season Delle Alli and (possibly) Pritchard will join the first team squad, with several talented players having a good chance to follow later - e.g. Carter-Vickers, Veljkovic, Harry Winks, Walker-Peters, Marcus Edwards.
We can't currently compete on the basis of wages or transfer fees, but that is not the only possible route forwards.
Agree - Spurs wont want to sell him, the player by all accounts is happy to stay at Spurs for at least another season. There is no real reason for them to sell him for anything less than a huge price (eg £40m+), unless they genuinely think he will fail to live up to expectation in a big way, which I dont think is the case.
Even then though, I still think that’s a bit of a strange one. Kane’s goalscoring record last season was a lot more impressive than anything Benteke’s ever produced, since Benteke hasn’t managed to get beyond 20 goals for Villa since his first season there. He’s a good player, but unless Kane significantly drops off then he’s comfortably a better striker than Benteke.
Kane's profile is easily already much bigger than that of Benteke.
He's just been voted best young player in the world's most popular league. He's a model professional.
The interest in Kane on Spurs recent visit to Malaysia and Australia was massive (for example, his image was projected onto the side of Sydney Harbour bridge as Spurs arrived).
Of course none of this is lost on Levy ... it simply provides one more reason not to sell him.
The reason why Spurs haven't sold to a rivals for a while is that they haven't had many players that rival clubs have wanted.
Bale was always going to Madrid, that's more of a players preference than levy playing hardball. If Madrid dropped out and United offered the same amount, Bale would now be a United player.
Modric and Chelsea was a one off. If I remember it had more to do with Chelsea's conduct rather than a no selling to rivals directive.
Outside of a select group of clubs, very few clubs have money to splash around, and most of those clubs are in England. Let's say Madrid / Barca don't want Kane. Who do Spurs sell him to? Bargain basement Juve? Wolfsburg?
Makes no sense.
Bale was always going to Madrid, that's more of a players preference than levy playing hardball. If Madrid dropped out and United offered the same amount, Bale would now be a United player.
Modric and Chelsea was a one off. If I remember it had more to do with Chelsea's conduct rather than a no selling to rivals directive.
Outside of a select group of clubs, very few clubs have money to splash around, and most of those clubs are in England. Let's say Madrid / Barca don't want Kane. Who do Spurs sell him to? Bargain basement Juve? Wolfsburg?
Makes no sense.
Yeah, he won't be joining us this summer unless Woody goes crazy and offers a ridiculous amount of money. Stranger things have happened, I guess.
He isn't gonna come cheap, 40m minimum plus he's the pin up boy for Tottenham and can't see he'd be that excited about moving. All that aside, who'd pay that for a player who's only had his first season at the highest level.....another non-starter and something driven by press for column inches
'Kane 9' has a lovely ring to it.
I can picture him as a United player.
I can picture him as a United player.
I think Benteke this season has shown what he's about. If he wants to be on it he can be unplayable. At United he would want to be on it all the time.
What!?He'd be very, very excited about becoming the number 9 of the biggest club in the country, trust me.
That’s arguably a bit of a simplification though. There’s no guarantee that any of his consistency problems would suddenly disappear by simply signing for United. Adebayor’s an example of a player who could often look unplayable at best, but would often disappear and be utterly useless in certain games, even when he was at a big club like Arsenal/City.
Out of interest, why is he not in your opinion?
Its not really (if you take away Europa league goals as Benteke didn't play in it) then is Kanes 24 league and cup goals vs Bentekes 23 is not more impressive than anything Benteke has ever produced.
I get your point, but I don't see how anyone can say Kane is comfortably better than Benteke. Not to mention Benteke playing for a shite team who were looking at relegation without him at that.
I don't even think Benteke is good enough for United, the way people talk about Kane as if he has done something that Benteke hasn't or Austin hasn't or even Lukaku hasn't before is getting beyond a joke.
He'd be very, very excited about becoming the number 9 of the biggest club in the country, trust me.
Why's that then. I can't think of anything better than playing for your boyhood club.
I think Benteke has been fairly consistent in England bar one period post injury and under Paul Lambert who was awful and taking Villa down. Adebayor totally different. Proved at countless clubs and over countless years that when he has job security he switches off and downs tools.
Well then you're quite frankly not that clever.
Benteke’s goals came in 2012/2013 though: he’s scored 11 and 15 in the past two seasons, which is much less impressive than Kane. Especially considering Kane is about 3 years younger than Benteke, and fairly likely to continue improving over time.
And while you make a decent point that Kane had more games to play in, therefore could score more goals over the season, it’s arguably quite impressive in that he’s shown he can sustain a good goal record in a variety of competitions over an entire season, despite playing in a lot of games, since that’s what he’d ideally be doing here if we ever did sign him.
I don’t even think Kane is all that great myself, but unless he suddenly regresses next season, I’d say he’s a better player than Benteke at the moment personally.
He’s not been remarkably inconsistent as such, but his goalscoring records haven’t been that great. 2012/2013 is the only season where I’d say he’s been superb for Villa over an entire season, with other seasons having glimpses of excellence from him.
If you're seriously suggesting that Harry Kane wouldn't be excited to move from Spurs to Man Utd then you're clearly a WUM or utterly delusional.
Perform well as a United striker and you're a worldwide star - it's the stuff of player's dreams.
The notion of Kane not wanting to move to United is literally laughable.
I'd have to agree....
Kane's class and will only get better. If we could get him for £40 million I'd be over the moon. He was probably the most exciting player in the league this season, I can only imagine what it was like watching him as a Spurs fan. I don't think for a second that we'll get him, but if there was even a sniff that we could I'd be all for it. Amazed that some on here are giving it the big Meh towards him.
The only one delusional is you. Believe it or not, not everyone feels the same about here as we do!! Otherwise we'd be able to sign anyone we wanted to cause it never about whether we can afford them. Hummels is a good example, whys he not breaking a gut to be here? Maybe he just likes being a DM player....
Excited is probably the wrong word to use. But it's not beyond possibility that he'd be just as happy to spend his whole career at Tottenham, become a complete club legend, and break records. Every player has ambition, but not every player has the same ambition.
Shearer would be an example. Heck, even Andy Carroll apparently wasn't that moved by the big step up to join Liverpool.
No idea if that would be the case for Kane specifically, but it's not laughable that he'd be as happy to stay at his boyhood club as he would joining United.
Wasn't that big a step up was it?
Anyway, I don't see this happening. Levy will sell to a PL rival eventually, but most likely it will be to Spain, providing Kane repeats the goalscoring feats of this season
Kane can become a complete legend here too, Rooney is a scouser lol and he is one of our best ever players. Also Shearer said that Man Utd never rang him back to show their interest, so we don't know if he would have came here or not, you can tell in his interviews that he kinda regrets it, same with Gasgione.
For me if Kane can replicate this seasons form, there is no chance h stays at Tottenham, way too good for them and for me looks set on becoming the complete striker.
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