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Lilbaz said:
It's pointless as it is a scenario that will never happen. A genie isn't going to appear and offer kane a choice of one or the other. I'm sure kane will try his hardest to win both. He's not going to give less effort in one hoping that means he will win the other.
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I'm just gonna say it, I think Kane cares more about eating healthy than he does getting a good nights sleep.
 
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Lilbaz said:
It's pointless as it is a scenario that will never happen. A genie isn't going to appear and offer kane a choice of one or the other. I'm sure kane will try his hardest to win both. He's not going to give less effort in one hoping that means he will win the other.
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That makes it moot, or irrelevant, or rhetorical. The ‘point’ of the question is the motivation of the questioner, and I can’t see a pleasant connotation there.
 
spursfan77

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Jaddas said:
I like the below article on Kane from Oliver Holt in the Daily Mail, link for full article below and have cut and pasted the main bits.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/f...-leader-dont-realise-weve-got-Harry-Kane.html

Harry Kane had a bad World Cup, apparently. That’s what I keep hearing anyway. He must be the first player to win the Golden Boot with a host of caveats attached. Old habits die hard in England: we have been imprisoned in a state of disappointment for so long, we are still learning how to applaud again. Sometimes, it still feels as if we don’t quite realise what we’ve got in our centre forward.

Maybe it is because he came up through the ranks with Spurs and was farmed out on loan to the back of beyond. Maybe it is because a lot of observers thought back then that he would never make it at the top level. Maybe it is because he has stayed loyal to Tottenham and lacks the kind of ego that needs to be served by seeking interest from elsewhere.

But amid the optimism that surged through Wembley on Friday night during and after England’s 5-0 demolition of the Czech Republic, it was hard to watch Kane’s performance and think anything other than that Gareth Southgate is fortunate to have at his disposal one of the most complete centre forwards in the world.

Sure, he was a support act to the dazzling brilliance of Raheem Sterling and Jadon Sancho, who tormented the Czech defence with their speed of thought and speed of foot and who made us dream that, at the European Championship next year, we really can improve on reaching the last four at the World Cup in Russia last summer.

But that is another of Kane’s qualities. He does not mind being the support act. He is happy to be a team player as well as a relentless goalscorer. If Sterling and Sancho are to be our future, Kane is the kind of player who will help them thrive. That is one of the things that makes him so good. He does not just score goals. He leads the line and he makes goals for others.

Kane has the vision of a playmaker as well as the deadliness of a goalpoacher. It was his superb pass inside the visitors’ overworked left back Filip Novak midway through the first half that unlocked the Czech defence. It was cleverly conceived and perfectly weighted, Sancho ran on to it and drilled the ball across goal for Sterling to slide it in. Kane prompted like that all evening.

He has the accomplished technique we associate with players raised outside the hurly burly of our league and the way he linked play with Sancho, Sterling and Ross Barkley exuded class. When Sterling won a first-half penalty, Kane buried it. That made it six successful penalties on the trot for him for England.

After the match, Southgate was, naturally, effusive about the contributions of Sancho and Sterling, whose increasing maturity and influence on the side has been recognised by including him in the squad’s leadership group. But he did not overlook Kane’s contribution to England’s ongoing improvement.

‘To have such a top striker who has such humility and such a low ego has a huge impression on the whole group,’ said Southgate. ‘Because at the moment he is the star player. You wouldn’t know it from the way he conducts himself, you wouldn’t know it from his application to training.

‘All you would say is that you can see why he is and the way he is disciplined with his food and the way he is disciplined with his preparation and his focus.
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A good article of Olly Holt. Normally he wants to say something controversial but not here, he’s 100% correct. He should be our captain really, you can see he is in all but name on the pitch.
 
nailsy

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nicdic said:
Not sure where England is affecting his form.
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The lack of pre-season has't helped this year, but on the flip side he's getting to see alternative coaching methods that help his overall game and he's also probably grown in confidence since being made England Captain and earning the golden boot at the world cup.

Does anyone else think that his penalties have improved this season? They were good before, but he seems to be on another level now.
 
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nailsy said:
The lack of pre-season has't helped this year, but on the flip side he's getting to see alternative coaching methods that help his overall game and he's also probably grown in confidence since being made England Captain and earning the golden boot at the world cup.

Does anyone else think that his penalties have improved this season? They were good before, but he seems to be on another level now.
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He seems to be hitting so much harder now, that even if the keeper gets a hand to it, it just powers through.
Unless the keeper is getting his torso behind it, which is nigh on impossible, its going in.
 
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Gb160 said:
He seems to be hitting so much harder now, that even if the keep gets a hand to it, it just powers through.
Unless the keeper is getting his torso behind it, which is nigh on impossible, its going in.
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He's definitely developed that penalty to the keeper's right, hard as his stock one, or go-to. If you hit it hard enough, there's very little any keeper can do unless they commit ridiculously early, and if they start doing that he'll just adjust and start rolling them the other side. Pretty similar to Shearer's method.
 
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The thing I love about Kane's penalties is how varied they are. He has his favourites - bottom left (from his view) and down the middle - but he mixes it up just enough to have opposition goalkeepers second guessing.

His two identi-pens vs Panama in the World Cup are possibly the best penalties he'll ever take.
 
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I can't imagine a more Spursy thing than Kane retiring young with Spurs, only to sign for the inevitable London NFL club and play at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
 
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I haven't read that article, but I've read similar one's where he's said he wants to be a kicking specialist. Sounds like a good plan to me.
 
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