Alan Hutton has discussed the worrying influence that Harry Kane has at Tottenham, which sees them struggle to perform when he isn’t playing.
The England captain has been Tottenham’s main goalscorer and has proven to be a reliable one.
He has added assists to his game this season. Nowadays, he is either scoring or making a goal when he plays.
But when he has been rested or missed games through injury, Spurs hardly achieve anything.
Son Heung-min is the club’s other goal threat, but when Kane is absent, the South Korean becomes ineffective.
Hutton says there is a shift in the mindset of the Tottenham players when Kane isn’t playing, and he has a similar influence as Jack Grealish has at Aston Villa.
He says with Kane on the pitch, the Tottenham players are confident that they can get results, but in his absence, they become mentally weak.
Asked if he thought the mindset around the Spurs dressing room changed with and without Kane, Hutton told Football Insider assistant editor Russell Edge: “It could be, yes.
“I mean, even myself, I have been in that situation with the likes of Villa when Jack Grealish was injured for such a long time and he wasn’t playing, he’s that person that can be the difference-maker from winning a game and losing a game.
“When you’ve not got that guy on the pitch, yes, of course, you feel the pressure a little bit more. I think the way Tottenham have been playing, very defensively, they always had that outlet of Kane getting on the ball and making something happen.
“When they don’t have that, they just look lost. They need him playing to function, really. From the outside looking in, if he’s not playing they literally look all over the place.”
Maracas in a gentlemens club? What a bunch of tossers!
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Wilmaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
It’s not the mindset or a psychological problem when Kane’s not in the side, it’s pure and simple; he carries the rest. He creates, he provides the energy going forward, the pinpoint long balls, the vision, the leadership, the direction, and of course, the goals. Without him there’s none of that on the pitch.
Son, the other player in the side who could walk into any team in the world, despite his brilliance, is anonymous without the service from Kane, because there’s simply nobody else that can – or is willing to – provide it.
A couple of seasons ago, when we were without Harry for a significant portion of the start of the season and Sonny stepped up, the rest of the team were fresh and hungry. The ones who remain from that squad have aged and gone stagnant. Dead wood, left to stagnate under Señor Levy and his cohorts at ENIC.
And so now, when Kane is out the engine ceases to function, and we’re like The Flitstones sticking their legs through the floor of the car and running around on concrete wheels.
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We were a goal up, without Kane, in the last match… (but then things went Spursy).
For a long time under the last coach it was debated whether Spurs actually played better without Harry Kane.
It was not always thus. I remember a Kaneless Spurs destroying Guardiola at the old stadium, when City were on an even more impressive run than they are now.
I was once tossed out of a gentlemens’ club for stepping up to have a go on the maracas.
He’s a one man band… With Son occasionally stepping up to have a go on the maracas!
Only one man that can do that. Same man who has presided over 20 years of penny-pinching mediocrity. Doesn’t matter who we have coming in if ENIC are still running the ‘project’. I hate that term for the running of the club. Shows how uninvested these a***holes are.
In that case sign more quality players to share the workload.