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I forget the exact numbers but doesn't the club get several mill more for every place higher we go?

Breaking the salary ladder is a bad precedent for club finances when all the other agents and sharks will smell blood in the water. But be real. He's going to smash every Spurs scoring record and could even set all time epl records. Is there seriously any other epl player who should be paid more?

£1.9m per place.
 
The amount of crap you see on boards - "well he can't score against mediocre international oppo". What, like Germany you mean, tosser? Or maybe you mean Cardiff?

Apart from the 2nd in the Goons 2-2, I can't recall any worldies. Which I'm fine with, keeps him under the radar

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His style is to always go for the bottom corners, it's his "go-to-technique". A lot of worldies has the ball flying all over the place, which isn't his style.

I think he's too clinical for his own good in this regard. Some of his goals require immense accuracy and technique (Like shooting through a players legs or using them to curl the ball around), but he makes it look easier than it is sometimes.
 
I dont think Harry scores traditional 'worldies' , as he likes to hit it low and hard into the corner, rather than the eye catching top corner, still looks good to me and still doesn't take away from the fact that many of these goals are from hard and far distances.

Ahhh, you beat me to it. Totally agree.
 
No suprise Paul 'fat disgusting mess of a man' Merson is basically begging Man United to buy him, one thing that's surprising is former Liverpool player Steve Nicol has said if he wants any chance of a trophy he needs to leave.

Pretty rich coming from a Liverpool guy...
 
No suprise Paul 'fat disgusting mess of a man' Merson is basically begging Man United to buy him, one thing that's surprising is former Liverpool player Steve Nicol has said if he wants any chance of a trophy he needs to leave.

Pretty rich coming from a Liverpool guy...
Yet,another ex pool player Jamie Carragher has said " A player would be mad to leave Tottenham at this time"
I may struggle to understand his version of English at times, but Carragher is a good honest pundit.
 
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I understand that sentiment but we have to be realistic. Kane is one of the best strikers in world football, I know he's a yid and all but eventually he is going to want to be paid as such.

If another player comes in and demands Kane type money than we have to decide if they are worth it, or show them the door but losing Kane we just cannot do with.

Besides with the added capacity we will have at Wembley/new stadium pus NFL money I see no reason we can't afford to raise player wages for those that warrant them. There is no reason we can't at least pay similar wages to say Woolwich and Liverpool.

This is where I'd like Uncle Joe to step in and provide some extra funds.. maybe go for the GL interior on the yacht and not the Ghia X, this year.
 
It is time to give Harry Kane the 'world-class' tag - Football365

You can call them stat-padders, flat-track bullies or any other demeaning name designed to dilute their achievement, but strikers can only score against what is put in front of them.

In this instance, Harry Kane came into the final two games of the season with 22 goals to his name. Tottenham faced opponents who perhaps earlier in the campaign would have put up a stronger fight, but with their position in the table a moot point, Spurs’ trips to Leicester and Hull were essentially dead rubbers. All that was at stake for the north London side was to finish with as high a points total as possible and ensure Kane ended the campaign as the Golden Boot winner for the second successive season.

Both came to fruition. Spurs knocked Leicester for six and then put seven past a relegated Hull on the final day of the campaign. Of the 13 goals scored, Kane bagged seven to take his campaign total to a ridiculous 29. In the last three seasons, he has netted 75 Premier League goals – not bad for a one-season wonder. This year alone, six hat-tricks have been scored in England’s top tier, four of which have been netted by Kane, with trebles against Stoke and West Brom alongside his four-goal salvo at Leicester and final-day hat-trick at Hull.

What’s all the more impressive about his 29-goal haul is that he missed eight games win an ankle injury and did not score his first league goal of the campaign until mid-September. A goal every 87.4 minutes was a stunning return. Of the 46 players to score 15 or more league goals in Europe’s top five leagues this season, only three – Lionel Messi, Edinson Cavani and Alexandre Lacazette – scored more frequently, meaning Kane scored his 29 goals at a better rate than the likes of Luis Suarez, Robert Lewandowski, Cristiano Ronaldo and Sergio Aguero. It was a world-class return. And he is still only 23.

Messi, Suarez, Cavani, Lewandowski, Ronaldo and Aguero are all considered to be world class, so surely there should be no question about Kane being in the same bracket, even after disappointing showings for England at Euro 2016 and in Europe for Spurs this season. Not one player excelled for the national team in France, while Tottenham’s disappointing Champions League and Europa League campaigns cannot solely be held against Kane.

In fact, it’s all the more reason to laud his goal return. The 23-year-old could have regressed in the wake of criticism, yet took it all in his stride to better his figures from the previous campaign. It’s even more impressive when you take into account the early stages of his career, when Kane struggled in loan spells at Norwich, Millwall and Leicester. Not many could have foreseen the striker’s career path take such an upward trajectory, yet he has continued to bat away the sceptics and beaten his Spurs totals season after season.

That’s not to mention the all-round aspects to his game. The best strikers are capable of playing as a lone forward or with a partner and it is that first role that has helped Kane reach new heights. Mauricio Pochettino favours a system than requires a solitary front-man, be it with a three-man or a four-man defence, and Kane has shown all the right traits to succeed in the role, whether he is playing on the shoulder of the last man or dropping deep to receive the ball and help in build-up play. He may have scored 29 goals but he has also contributed seven assists, and averages of 1.5 key passes and 1.3 successful dribbles per 90 prove he is more than a mere finisher.

The world-class tag may be used on a whim by some, but Kane has surely done enough to warrant being mentioned in the same breath as Aguero, Suarez and Lewandowski after another stunning season in England.
 
I dont think Harry scores traditional 'worldies' , as he likes to hit it low and hard into the corner, rather than the eye catching top corner, still looks good to me and still doesn't take away from the fact that many of these goals are from hard and far distances.
Reminds me of a lot of Aguero's goals where he places it just inside the far post and you're wondering in that split second before the net bulges if it'll manage to creep in...

His first against Chelsea in the 5-3 is the classic one of those in my mind:

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Have noticed Son doing a similar thing. Scored one against Leicester that just crept into the bottom right. Sometimes the ball bounces before the keeper and it seems to confuse them.
 
His style is to always go for the bottom corners, it's his "go-to-technique". A lot of worldies has the ball flying all over the place, which isn't his style.

I think he's too clinical for his own good in this regard. Some of his goals require immense accuracy and technique (Like shooting through a players legs or using them to curl the ball around), but he makes it look easier than it is sometimes.
On that link a page back where it had his shot conversion efficiency at about 25%. That is. Totally. Unreal.

Even if they include penalties, but then they would have to include free kicks - where his efficiency bizarrely must be lower than in open play. Unbelievable
 
Reminds me of a lot of Aguero's goals where he places it just inside the far post and you're wondering in that split second before the net bulges if it'll manage to creep in...

His first against Chelsea in the 5-3 is the classic one of those in my mind:

kane.gif


Have noticed Son doing a similar thing. Scored one against Leicester that just crept into the bottom right. Sometimes the ball bounces before the keeper and it seems to confuse them.

His ability to hit it low and hard and hit the corner is incredibly difficult. He is so good at steadying himself before he shoots. I can barely remember him ever putting a shot over the goal, which anyone who has ever played football knows just a slight off balance or leaning back and the ball is taking off on you.

As others have mentioned it doesn't make the most sexy top corner goal but its much more effective and so incredibly difficult to do what he does so consistently.
 
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