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Gareth88

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It’s an attempt to get rid of pointless friendlies and make international matches more competitive outside tournaments.

Personally i’ve enjoyed it.
Find it very taxing on the players I could see it being a better opportunity to bring through new faces into a squad much like a friendly, just seems that all players from all nations who play in the prem or other major leagues will never gets rest.
 

JUSTINSIGNAL

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Find it very taxing on the players I could see it being a better opportunity to bring through new faces into a squad much like a friendly, just seems that all players from all nations who play in the prem or other major leagues will never gets rest.

It’s for the manager to judge if the players are too fatigued to play, in fact none of champions league final players started because of this reason.

I think the competitive nature of the tournament helps development of national teams. Rather than player friendlies with nothing at stake or qualifiers against sides who we easily beat - this gives us no indication of the level of the team. Whereas last night was a good barometer of where England needs to improve (build the side around Harry Winks).
 

Gassin's finest

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Find it very taxing on the players I could see it being a better opportunity to bring through new faces into a squad much like a friendly, just seems that all players from all nations who play in the prem or other major leagues will never gets rest.
Sterling's performance last night would suggest otherwise like...
 

Cornpattbuck

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such a shame to see Kane bumbling around the pitch. he looks nothing like he used to, and hasn't for a while.

this was the year he needed a good summer off because he's not getting one next year

Almost scored a lovely goal with pretty much his only half chance.

Ref seemed to pull him up any time he challenged for the ball, and yet had no issue when the Dutch defenders had their hands all over him.

To be honest though, I don't think Harry was meant to play as much as he did yesterday anyway but Rashford's injury led to his introduction earlier than expected.
 

carmeldevil

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Now can he take a nice long vacation and heal up? I’m sure the break would do wonders for him mentally.
 

danielneeds

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Now can he take a nice long vacation and heal up? I’m sure the break would do wonders for him mentally.
He's probably gonna be stewing about the CL final and the Nations League for most of the summer. He said as much after the game yesterday to the media.
 

SteveH

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It’s an attempt to get rid of pointless friendlies and make international matches more competitive outside tournaments.

Personally i’ve enjoyed it.


Would agree. Last night was a difficult couple of hours viewing though.
 

DJS

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He's probably gonna be stewing about the CL final and the Nations League for most of the summer. He said as much after the game yesterday to the media.

Good.

Hopefully he’ll come back even hungrier and get 30 league goals again next season!
 

DJS

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Southgate was really silly picking him too.

Anyone could see he wasn’t properly fit after champions league final, there are other English forwards who were fully fit and would have been hungry to get chance to shine.

Typically narrow-minded thinking.
 

TottenhamMattSpur

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He's not the fastest player in the team, let alone the league, but he's looked miles off the pace for a long time now IMO.

I don't know whether that's injury, tiredness, weight gain (muscle and/or other) for sure. But it's possibly slowing us as a team down at times. Then again, we were looking that way without him towards the end of the season.

We need to freshen Kane up, but I also think we need to freshen up a lot of the squad. A good rest then a clever pre-season where everyones fitness and stamina is assessed is key.
 

Stamford

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I miss the Kane who picked the ball up against Chelsea turned a few players and banged it in. That always sticks out to me
 

Klinsmannesque

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Thought he looked better Sunday (I get it was Switzerland) but he was more physical, sharper, held the ball up better and played some nice passes (especially the one to Sterling in the first half)

Excited to see what a fully rested Kane can do next season
 

Blockbuster

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Spurs fans must mostly be physios or work at the club to know how fit Kane is?

it seems mind-boggle the amount of people posting that he isnt fit and shouldn't play. Kane and whoever his management team are, be it Poch or Southgate wouldn't play an unfit striker.

He seems to get such stick being thrown his way unless he is constantly scoring 3 goals each game he plays.

We need to enjoy Kane and support him, not berate him each time he doesn't set the world alight
 

thebenjamin

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Thought he looked better Sunday (I get it was Switzerland) but he was more physical, sharper, held the ball up better and played some nice passes (especially the one to Sterling in the first half)

Excited to see what a fully rested Kane can do next season

Like a new signing...
 

TottenhamMattSpur

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Spurs fans must mostly be physios or work at the club to know how fit Kane is?

it seems mind-boggle the amount of people posting that he isnt fit and shouldn't play. Kane and whoever his management team are, be it Poch or Southgate wouldn't play an unfit striker.

He seems to get such stick being thrown his way unless he is constantly scoring 3 goals each game he plays.

We need to enjoy Kane and support him, not berate him each time he doesn't set the world alight

You don't need to be a physio to tell someones playing style has changed, quite dramatically in a year that has coincided with a lack of rest and 3 injuries.

Much like you don't need to doctor to tell a fat person they're fat, nor a psychiatrist to tell some one who has suffered horrible losses, they might be a bit sad.
 

chinaman

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The Kane staying at the top of the line scoring goals and scaring the shit out of the opposition defences is special and worth his weight in gold. The Kane dropping back spraying passes (although he does that very well) to lesser forwards does not help our cause as much. Playing the latter role for England in last year's WC has blunted his sharpness and his goal scoring instinct this past campaign.

Hope he realizes this himself and goes back to work on his former role after a good rest this off-season.
 

JUSTINSIGNAL

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I do find it funny that if Kane doesn’t have a good match it’s because he’s been ‘overplayed’ is ‘tired’ or ‘still recovering’ from injury. It’s as if he doesn’t play a 10 out of 10 every match and bang in 5 goals then there are always mitigating circumstances out of his control. No mention of the fact the opposition might have just marked him out the game, he is just out of form or had a shit match like every other player in world football. Why does he always get excuses made for him but Alli, Eriksen or others just get panned?
 
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