“He has no interest whatsoever” Kane cannot escape fan backlash after “terrible” display

Well you had to be fit as a butcher’s dog to get in his teams.

It was variously reported at different times, by several media outlets, that Laporte and Silva were part of a potential trade package offered by City and that both were willing to consider it. The wage demands of either player could have comfortably been accommodated with the departure of Kane.

Just came on here and was going to say exactly the same about Bernardo and Laporte,it would never have happened.

Even Levy must realise he has lost Kane and his value decreases weekly.Another masterclass by the ace negotiator.

Only 8 😳

Agree with a lot of this, but players like Laporte and Silva would not come to a team like us who a) don’t have Ch Lg and b)won’t match their wages. We could have done with the American system where players just get traded and there is little say in the deals that get done.

3/10 what’s that high score for? The most he could be given would be 1/10 for the purchase of VdV and a mickey mouse cup. He’s actively destroyed a once great team by his pathetic antics and mind boggling tightness.

Correct, correct and correct Marbella! I have iterated numerous times that the only reason Kane played so well last season (a career year) was because of the enforced absence of football that had ensued due to Covid 19. The truncation of the 2019/2020 season and the cancellation of the 2019 Euros allowed Kane the vary rare opportunity to get completely healthy and completely fit. A perfect storm in effect.

Add that fact to the initial optimism under Mourinho early last season, when we were riding high and Kane and Son were flying and you had a briefly physically and mentally rejuvenated Kane at the top of his game. By the end of the season and the start of the Euros he seemed knackered and his performances were already on the wane. His morale, at Spurs, also appeared sullied after the Mourinho sacking debacle.

His value was never going to be higher than it was last off-season and with his declared intention to leave he should have been sold (early in the window) for 130 million/or whatever Levy could have squeezed out of City. I also commented that I liked Laporte and Bernardo Silva, who have both been outstanding so far this season incidentally and would have accepted either (or both) in part exchange for Kane.

Spot on tactical analysis by Cowspur and yourself also. Employing two defensive midfield pivots, in Hojberg and Skipp has greatly solidified our defensive stability, but at the expense of our creativity. Our build up is too ponderous for the most part, the passing too lateral and the lack of midfield creativity outside of Ndombele, patently obvious. We lacked either the pace or the wit and invention to break West Ham down.

To be fair a defensive masterclass by Moyes, (similar to the tactics Mourinho employed against City and Arsenal at home last year), forcing us to play wide and with only one cross of real note where Kane could/should have scored we looked toothless up front. Add in Kane’s total lack of apparent desire to chase or press high and he actually slows our game down. [Compare that to the speed and hunger of Salah!]

In summary another Levy disaster class. An abject failure to regenerate the team over two/three years, including a woeful misallocation of transfer funds, ultimately disaffected our star player, whose ambition to leave was then thwarted by Levy. Whether subliminally or deliberately, Kane is now ‘sticking it’ to Levy on the pitch and the only way to further compound Levy’s catalogue of errors would be give an Aubameyang type contract to a declining force.

Look shipmates we can go on & on forever but my take is that as an entrepreneur/real estate developer – Levy is 9/10.
As a football CEO he is 3/10

Do the math

Poch also got in big, strong, athletic lads. Bit like Moyes’ West Ham.

Agree, as usual.

We never have any true leaders allied with quality, because players like that cost money with little sell on value. basically. The lack of those players is 100% indicative of Levy’s transfer MO.

Poch found a way of doing it collectively with a younger group of willing players, this made the need for that kind of player less acute. However, we still needed them then, which is probably why we never got a trophy under Poch. Big game players with experience get you over the line

As always, we are back to gazing at the boardroom for those to blame… Who else?

Nuno is on thin ice as it is. Dropping Kane will be sacrilege to some fans and could lead to his demise (Gullit and Shearer mark 2). Kane might be in poor form, but there are possibly 8 other players who I would replace before Kane.

Yup

Totally agree

What did Levy and for that matter deluded fans think would happen when a disillusioned employee was still on the payroll ?

He’d made his mind up to go. Levy blocked it. He said he was staying for the summer. The clues were all there. Problem is NES doesn’t have the minerals to drop him. Levy, is just being Levy.

Spurs under Jose was a 2 man attacking unit with very little else. To think opposing teams wouldn’t see that and plan for it next time shows a distinct lack of foresight. The opposition just have to smother Son and Kane and we struggle. And smothered they were! Spurs needed Moura, Skipp, Hojbjerg and our non attacking full backs to join in. Yesterday, they didn’t. If we give the opposition more to worry about, Son and Kane get more space. This happened v Newcastle when Moura and Ndom got past players creating spaces for us to exploit. Yesterday, Moura was poor, but West Ham are a far better defensive unit than the bar codes so they nullified our main threats well.

If Liverpool only relied on Salah to get the ball and do his thing he would not be nearly as successful as when Jota, Firmino, Henderson, Keita, and of course the full backs do their thing. And they had Mane on the bench! Football is a team game and as most of us know, we do not have enough good players to beat top sides anymore, even average ones, on a consistent basis. Yesterday, West Ham defended very deep and spawned a goal from another set piece having created very little apart from a few half chances from crosses (It’s what they do). Now, Kane was at fault for the goal. Far too inactive, and he did lose possession a lot. He normally sets the tone on that but if he isn’t doing well we have little hope. I just do not see how dropping Kane would make us better. Son plays centrally and Gil on the left, but that is a big gamble. It is obvious though that our tactics with Kane on the pitch is not working well.

Both Kane and Son had a chance each and at the top level one has to go in. Skipp and Hojbjerg rarely do anything creative and Ndom put the ball through to Son for his chance, but because West Ham sat so deep and cut out the space centrally, as well as being stronger and fitter (it looked like they won more physical battles) we really struggled in the final third. When NES said we controlled the game, Moyes allowed us to have the ball in areas that were not going to punish them. Moyes definitely pulled the strings in the second half, hence no shots.

I wasn’t impressed with Moura, Reggie or Royal in attack. Did Royal cross the ball once? We needed players stretching the West Ham defence across the pitch. Whether that is with 1v1s, overloads or overlaps from full backs I don’t care but we were too slow in switching play and overall we look lost and without an attacking plan. We had plenty of opportunities to cross the ball in the box yesterday, but our delivery was atrocious. In fact our ability to keep the ball in the attacking third was abysmal.

We are going to see more of this type of performance for quite some time unless we get a more attacking coach or more quality on the pitch. The caveat with that though is we will be left wide open and possibly ripped to shreds if we get a Eddie Howe, Graham Potter type figure. We can of course blame NES, he sets the team up, but let us not forget Jose and Poch struggled because of the quality they had to play with. We simply do not have enough good footballers to affect a game. Levy would have to pay more for that to happen.

However, we have just as good a squad as West Ham and Palace and we have been found wanting in both. That is what worries me. It used to be competing with Chelsea and City that caused me concern, but worrying about Palace and West Ham is how low we have sunk.

Preaching to the choir my friend

In all honesty, what did we expect? The Player always has the last word pity Levy does not get it.

Well done Daniel, you played a blinder! What a brilliant strategy to overprice Kane and refuse to answer the phone to City who were the only suitor on the horizon. Now all you have is a rapidly depreciating asset. For those fans who are turning on Kane, we have no idea what the conversation or agreement between Levy and Kane entailed, and although we all realise that a gentleman’s is not worth the paper it’s written on, particularly in relation to Levy, Kane obviously feels aggrieved and I know whom I would rather believe over this standoff.
I would also like to point out to those fans deriding Kane’s performance yesterday that Son did not have a good game either .This is simply because the transition between defence and attack is ponderous to put it politely. Both Skipp and Hjojberg are by definition defensive midfielders with little creative ability, and Skipp hardly made a forward pass. Coupled with Nuno’s inability to see that his tactics weren’t working and make earlier substitutions, we were always struggling to get the ball forward to Kane and Son. West Ham were organised and tidy but no more than that and yet we are unable to penetrate a side set up like this as we are slow and lacking creativity in midfield. Back to the drawing board after yet another Groundhog Day.

I think we have to put this into context, we are not a very creative team at all at the moment. He and Sonny are working off of scraps and personally I don’t think Nuno is anywhere good enough for a job this size. He was hardly helped by the manner in which he came in as eighth choice or whatever it was, but whatever. There’s no intensity.

If indeed Fonseca had been turned down by Paratici in favour of Nuno, perhaps he needs to go as well?

Where is the identity in this team? It has zero personality, which is hardly surprising when you’ve gone from a youthful high pressing team and a manager that works that way, to two Iberian versions of Pulis within a couple of years. And this Paratici guy, just more meaningless window dressing from Levy. The guy talks the same old ENIC company-line drivel we’ve been fed for the last 23 years.

Not impressed whatsoever with any of it, the Kane situation is just another issue within the chaos created by Levy/ENIC.

His value plummeting by the day, well played Daniel!

Haha Kane has come back to shaft Levy – kind of poetic isn’t it?