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Yeah what does he know?
Arf arf arf. Have an opinion you’ve made up yourself of go back to school prick
Jesus, you really are a boring little troll.
He’s better looking than me.Not fair to use a picture ofGlastonSpur without his permission
Numbers aren't everything, but fair point, he's obviously perfoming better than Son. But still, amount of wasted chances, misplaced passes, lost balls, wrong decisions is unreal for him. He used to be our best player, now his performances are somewhere in the middle, while his skills are way above others. PEH has better season so far, Benta, Dier, Romero, Kulu.
Have you thought of supporting Man City, I'm sure you will be much less dissatisfied.
I'm not dissatisfied at all, I am actually defending our team and Conte saying that our 2 most important players are underperforming and theres no need to panic.
Unless the executives, Levy, ENIC etc. have a long-term footballing plan in place - and who seriously believes that they do? - Kane and Son leaving is going to hit the club like a fucking freight train (and is likely to happen around the same time). As things have stood for the past half-decade or so, when the two of them go/retire, it'll be less than half a season before even their most ardent critics are begging for the club to bring in two players almost as good as them.
There's wisdom in most cliches. But the retort that a team rarely wins anything by scraping through all the time is also very true (anyone got any good examples of teams that have won a major honour with a bunch of dodgy or fluky wins and 0-0 draws etc.? I seem to recall Leicester relying on scraping by a lot more than a typical PL champion, but them winning was still a great moment for the rest of the league outside of the playboy elite, so I'm not putting them down). We're seeing what this level of performance does in the CL and it's not great, so improvement and some consistency is still desperately needed.
Kane (and Son to an extent) aren't getting enough opportunities so far this season. There's been multiple games where Kane's only really had one clear-cut opportunity and whether or not he buries it has determined the outcome of the match. Of course, a striker has to play his part and make himself available - which maybe Kane could do better, though I'd argue that he's making plenty of runs and signalling for passes when the ball's in the midfield - but to me that indicates problems further down the pitch.
Nah not really unless we are confusing wbs for MFs.... Which they are not.
Kane's shooting in preseason was phenomenal (as was his passing and all-round play). He scored 5 goals from shots with xGs that altogether summed to about 1. And they were glorious goals using the old eye test too, especially if one includes the marginally offside, discounted 6th goal. Maybe he's feeling some pressure after missing a few shots in a competitive environment and there's a psychological aspect. He's a perfectionist and that has its drawbacks psychologically but it also makes him the kinda guy who'll be doing double finishing drills after training to try to correct every minor error. I have a feeling that it's only a matter of time before he starts painting the lines again (to borrow a tennis metaphor). Regardless, he showed in preseason that he certainly hasn't lost the ability to strike a ball like the best. His current state, like Son's, is purely temporary. Though it would no doubt help both of them in their scoring and confidence if they could get an extra shot or two per game from the supposed creative players behind them.
