Harry Kane

[rossdapep]

When he retires he will be a a regular at our games. I am sure of that.

The vitriol toward him is odd.

What is also odd, is Tuchel.

At Dortmund and Mainz, I thought there was this exciting coach but since PSG, his system is really quite boring to watch.

Very compact and organised. Lots of passing exchanges before the ball is worked into the front 3.

Not as exciting as I originally thought.

 

[Nerine]

Question - do you think we would have had as good a start to the season (or better) with Kane starting up front?

With Kanes finishing ability, I think we’d have more goals for sure. Probably, level on points with City, honestly.

That said, it’s difficult to say because we’d lose running and pressing from the front so it’s kind of impossible to tell whether Kane would work well in the team as a whole and whether he’d have hindered how we have been playing in some other way, and examining the net impact.

It’s one of those things we’ll never know.

 

[ernie78]

Question - do you think we would have had as good a start to the season (or better) with Kane starting up front?

Similar but any elation we feel as fans would be tempered by every commentary/analysis starting with “Well Kane will be off in Jan/who will he go to/what will they do without him?” etc etc so the feel good factor wouldn’t be as high as it is now

 

[Col_M]

Not interested in watching him or the CL. Never felt like he was a real Spurs man like Moura or Son anyway so him moving on has been pretty easy. Made even easier by how we're playing at the moment and the sense of togetherness in the squad.

Genuinely amazed at that.

And I’ll not be taking the bait.

 

[thelak]

He’s on camera now saying he’ll keep an eye on us forever

he’s delighted we have started well and we’ve got a big game this weekend

people happy now or going to complain because he didn’t kick the table over shouting F off back to Woolwich and get an Arsenal fan on a string ditty going?

 

[IfiHadTheWings]

He’s on camera now saying he’ll keep an eye on us forever

he’s delighted we have started well and we’ve got a big game this weekend

people happy now or going to complain because he didn’t kick the table over shouting F off back to Woolwich and get an Arsenal fan on a string ditty going?

bit disappointed he never tbh

 

[Bobby TwoShots]

Question - do you think we would have had as good a start to the season (or better) with Kane starting up front?

He’s arguably the best striker in the world, so of course we’d be better with him.

Just don’t get the hate towards him. He’s moved on, so have we. The only thing to be upset about is we wasted the last 4 years of having him playing such shit football. Think he’d be loving it under Ange.

 

[brasil_spur]

He died a little to me the summer he flirted with City and refused to train. I still enjoyed watching him play for us, and was sad when he left, but I haven't thought much about him since he left. That might have been different if we were struggling, of course, but generally it feels good to have a team of 11 players and not Kane plus 10 players.

He died quite a lot for me that summer, to the point that it took a good half season or so for me to warm to him again. It was a shitty way to approach getting a move and in the end City weren't even that interested in him.

This summer I felt he handled it with more class but I honestly think we're better off without him. I don't think we'd be seeing Madders doing what he is doing if Kane was still here. Son wouldn't have got a chance in the middle and so Solomon wouldn't have got a chance out wide and we would be playing with Son on the left and struggling to be an effective winger in the Ange system.

But more than the football, is the overhaul side of things. We needed a fresh start and with Kane and a few others gone and only Dier still really hanging around the squad, it feels like a new and different Tottenham - we wouldn't have got that with Kane still here.

 

[bomberH]

Question - do you think we would have had as good a start to the season (or better) with Kane starting up front?

He’s one of the best strikers in the world, so yes. I love Son & Richy and Johnson looks extremely promising but he’s a better striker than all of them. Remember Son has only scored in one game this season. Same as Richy. When Haaland had 509 goals last season, Kane still scored in more games than he did.

He got 30 in a team that created about 32 chances….. if he was in this team he’d get between 30 and 40 easily I think.

If the question was ‘would you have loved him to stay if he signed a new contract so all the talk of him leaving stops’, then 100% yes. I’d still have kept him for another year but I just couldn’t be arsed with the constant transfer speculation. But he’s gone and luckily, we’re ok so far. As it stands it’s been a good move for both parties but nobody should be under the pretence that we’d be worse off with him. In my opinion of course.

 

[Bluto Blutarsky]

 

[Bluto Blutarsky]

 

[Dillspur]

Question - do you think we would have had as good a start to the season (or better) with Kane starting up front?

Better, I believe he would have been the difference in the Brentford game, Richy had a couple of chance that I think Kane would have converted.

 

[GioW]

 

[NickHSpurs]

I’d imagine buy back is similar to Bale and we’ll have first refusal to match any bids.

 

[Rout-Ledge]

I’d imagine buy back is similar to Bale and we’ll have first refusal to match any bids.

Is that technically a buy back?

 

[yiddopaul]

Question - do you think we would have had as good a start to the season (or better) with Kane starting up front?

We're definitely a better team now than the previous 4 years. Kane would have made us even better, but we're not missing him as much as we thought or rival fans had hoped. We had him for the best years of his career. I'm excited by this young team we're building.

 

[gabsyspur]

maybe nitpicking but it annoyed me how he said ‘their fans’ rather than ‘the fans’. Every time Ange is asked about Celtic he is gushing about them and we don’t care. He’s in a totally different league now. I don’t see why he can’t pay us a bit more lip service than he does

 

[Spursmatty87]

That coupled with "I'm having one lesson a week" to learn German reinforces the feeling that this was designed to be short term, that expects English clubs to move for him in a year or two, maybe thinking it will be easier to go then than direct from Tottenham

Makes no sense he could have gone on a free next summer.

 

[Bluto Blutarsky]

Question - do you think we would have had as good a start to the season (or better) with Kane starting up front?

Yes and no.

Kane up front would be scoring at will.

But, the reality is - it was clear to Spurs at the beginning of the summer that Kane was leaving - and we did transfer business with that in mind. We would not have Maddison, if Kane was staying, imo.

I think the totality of the circumstances - a complete change in culture, including Kane leaving, has lead to the the good start.

But, if the question is simply - would we be playing well with the same team plus Kane - we would be playing even better with Kane.

 

[Trent Crimm]

maybe nitpicking but it annoyed me how he said ‘their fans’ rather than ‘the fans’. Every time Ange is asked about Celtic he is gushing about them and we don’t care. He’s in a totally different league now. I don’t see why he can’t pay us a bit more lip service than he does

Yeah. He didn’t name the fans individually. He hates us.