It’s evident that Harry Kane’s value to Tottenham cannot be expressed in mere goals. The 26-year old is very much the essence of this Tottenham side, as “irreplaceable” is how Jose opted to describe our captain.
No two ways about it, Jose Mourinho feels absolutely stymied without the big man. At the risk of being perceived as using any excuse to drag Daniel Levy’s good name into proceedings, what is highlighted here our absolute fragility when even the surface is scratched by injury at Spurs.
As we saw in the Southampton game, anything less than our best XI instantly becomes a “mend and make do” situation, and one that saw Tottenham horribly flail under the lights at St Mary’s last Wednesday.
Darren bent was the most underated striker we had… His stats/ratios up there better than the likes of cantona, ruud van nistelroy etc…. His minutes to goal ratio, and strike percentage was better than some of the best.. And he played for alot of mediocre/rubbish teams like charlton and he was killing it… Vardy esq… Could really do with a player like that to compliment and play with kane as well as the rest.
Deleted my post because of bent? 🙈 …. Darren bent obviously 😂 man is this blog turning snowflake/pc as well?
Son scored loads especially.. They are both wingers though and by their own confessions they neither enjoy or tend to play well at centre forward.. Llorente was our back up but he was well past his best before end… Perhaps if we had a proper back up target man to support and relieve him then kane wouldnt be injured in the first place. I was banging on recently that he was going to get injured again, he had played more minutes than anyone, he should be looked after rather than being overused, when any human burns out their performances deteriorate and then they brake. He needs more rest… When i think back even in recent times there was always good back up strikers often with different styles…Defoe, keane, bent, kanoute, crouch,adebayor…. Kane being the sole striker in the first squad is criminal levy… England captain too he is amazing, but not superman.
Under Poch, the time before last, when Kane was crocked Son and Lucas came to the rescue.
Perhaps you are a professor of sociology or perhaps, and more likely, you are playing devil’s advocate. If we assume a medieval allegory, the serfs or peasants are the Spurs fans who are being overcharged for a failing project which only satisfies a rapacious landlord. One day, they will revolt against their landlord, Enic.
Why? The peasant class were historically exploited by their masters by being overworked, over taxed and underpaid. Finally, when they all saw the light, they revolted. Enic take the piss out of the supporters, one day they will wake up and smell the roses.
“highest ticket prices in the PL and over priced food and beverages” ……… “peasants revolt”? A contradiction in terms surely?
My thoughts exactly, see my blog below.
We are not a “proper grown up professional club”. We are a financial conduit to furnish Enic with loads of wonga and to pay our beloved chairman the highest salary in the PL. Our supporters are treated with contempt with the highest ticket prices in the PL and over priced food and beverages at the “craft ale emporium”. I, for one, cannot wait for the day when the peasants revolt against the vampire squid that is Enic and it’s gopher, Levy.
Every season we go through this same ground hog day. Kane gets crocked. Sonny plays up the middle. Our squad is wafer thin and any injury upsets the fragile balance that exists. Mourinho’s constant narrative about the transfer market and needing time has the echo’s of Pooch all over it. He has signed up for the £15 million and agreed to spin the Levy line as Pooch did. Until this disease called ENIC is eradicated from this club then nothing will change. Our best players will come and go along with managers whilst the fans are charged top dollar as if the club had genuine ambition for success. The club has the infrastructure now that was always used as the excuse for us not competing for the best players. We are in the CL which is also used as a reason for not getting the best players. The one thing that remains a constant is we have owners who have zero interest in running a football club and who have lied and misled the supporters for nearly twenty years with one excuse after another. Sadly it may take a spectacular collapse by the squad and an half empty stadium to force ENIC into moving on.
If the powers that be at Tottenham really valued Harry they’d protect him by having a player to back him up and give him a chance to rest, recuperate and avoid injuries from overuse. That’s what proper grown up professional clubs like Liverpool and Man City do.