I'd be interested in knowing the preferred strike of those that are against Kane
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Kane brings goals guaranteed and assists too as he's quite a good link up player.
Downside is his lack of pace and pressing ability.
Definitely don't think Rashford n Antony are the right players for Kane either. Don't think that front three would be that good.
Downside is his lack of pace and pressing ability.
Definitely don't think Rashford n Antony are the right players for Kane either. Don't think that front three would be that good.
Theres bigger concerns from the other prospective targets.
“Total bollocks” yet the source is a tier 1 highly reputable journalist. Oop.
The depths people go to destroy Harry Kane.I bet his records outdo or come close to your favourite striker ‘ever’ and I’m willing to put it to the test.
Kolo Muani. He’s my guy now.
I stand corrected. That twitter news aggregator is very loose with quotes and headlines though. Total bollocks might be a bit extreme but I'd always double check what they quote.
So Greenwood wants to leave England? Makes total sense to be honest
Pretty sure it would be Osimhen type of striker. There was a thread called Osimhen vs Kane.
He does seem to have a bit of Kane's and Osimhen's main strengths,however how well does he adapt to the Premier League
I would want him but just not at that price that Levy will demand, Not paying 100m+ for someone in the last year of their contract would rather focus elsewhere like midfield and defense. maybe bring in a cheap striker that can rotate with Martial and sign Kane on a pre-contract in January and pay that bellend Levy feck all
If this is true (and the Express surely wouldn't make it up...), I'd put in a bid literally the minute the window opens
https://www.express.co.uk/sport/foo...Harry-Kane-asking-price-Man-Utd-transfer-news
https://www.express.co.uk/sport/foo...Harry-Kane-asking-price-Man-Utd-transfer-news
Above 30, when usually your legs are gone and no resale value. It would be a really bad business. Not to mention the huge price.
Great player and I’m sure we’d get value for 2 years. Just not sure if it’s worth it for a 30 year old striker.
Levy would never let us sign Kane and have him for a glorious pre-season tour of North America.
At best we would get Kane in late August after the PL has started.
If they're asking for £88m then maybe a bid of 60 with added bonuses to make it 70/75 could do it. That would make sense to me.
The time for Kane at a huge fee was at least 2 years ago. His brother and Levy made their respective beds, and that's that.
The ONLY reason we should be after Kane is if it's cheap due to the contract situation and the pressure we can exert. Has any player who can walk free in 6 months garnered more than even 40m?
We are Manchester f*cking United - a club that has been synonymous with strikers - and we've not had an actual first choice centre forward under the age of 35 for about 4 seasons. It's disgraceful squad management.
If we have a run at Kane it has to be a stop-gap. Because in 3 years it's going to be a problem again, and the rest of the squad desperately needs work. Buying Kane and then going cheap on another CM and RB would make us worse then spreading the funds across the positions.
The ONLY reason we should be after Kane is if it's cheap due to the contract situation and the pressure we can exert. Has any player who can walk free in 6 months garnered more than even 40m?
We are Manchester f*cking United - a club that has been synonymous with strikers - and we've not had an actual first choice centre forward under the age of 35 for about 4 seasons. It's disgraceful squad management.
If we have a run at Kane it has to be a stop-gap. Because in 3 years it's going to be a problem again, and the rest of the squad desperately needs work. Buying Kane and then going cheap on another CM and RB would make us worse then spreading the funds across the positions.
His contract ends in 2024.
So he'd be able to sign a pre-contract for free in January right? That's what I meant by walking in 6 months (after this summer). So Spurs etiher get something this summer, or nadda.
Ha, good point. A great decision all around.
Uniteds window to win is from the summer though, we absolutely have to be in win mode from next season else why bother investing huge money in players like Casemiro and wasting the potential prime years of Fernandes, Varane etc.
Kane will be big money if he moves but we add an instant goal return of 25+ in a position we simply haven’t had fire power in for years. Yeah he might tail off in a couple of years but his game isn’t built around pace anyway. So you overpay by £20-30 million and we get Levy memes as soon as he doesn’t score for 3-4 games but nobody will remember that when we are finally back in a legit title race position and competing on all fronts.
Ten Hag will want to win now, ownership situation aside, adding someone like Kane can have a Van Persie effect, so what if it’s 2-3 seasons, let’s be competing again.
Kane will be big money if he moves but we add an instant goal return of 25+ in a position we simply haven’t had fire power in for years. Yeah he might tail off in a couple of years but his game isn’t built around pace anyway. So you overpay by £20-30 million and we get Levy memes as soon as he doesn’t score for 3-4 games but nobody will remember that when we are finally back in a legit title race position and competing on all fronts.
Ten Hag will want to win now, ownership situation aside, adding someone like Kane can have a Van Persie effect, so what if it’s 2-3 seasons, let’s be competing again.
Yeah sorry, you're right.
He's got three huge games coming up in the next week, let's see what he does.
He's shit the bed in most big games this season.
He's shit the bed in most big games this season.
He'll only just have turned 30 by the start of next season. Got at least three very good years left unless he picks up a serious injury, which of course could happen to anyone
Thats not the way to look at it, mate. Look at the amount of games he has played, and how he looks to be on a negative spiral. Not a player we need. We need him five years ago. Let’s look elsewhere.
how the hell do you arrive at the conclusion that he's on a downward spiral? check his goal tally
Try watching the games and the goals he scores.. Don’t want him. It’s Ronaldo 2.0, and we need something else. Spending that kind of money, you want something for the future and the present.
One thing I would note about the goals he has scored in the league this season is that 12 have been from open play, 11 from penalties/set-pieces. Versus a couple of seasons ago say when he scored 18 from open play, 5 from penalties/set-pieces.
And obviously you's genelly take more encouragment from what a player produces in open play.
Cut the crap. How many penalties out of them set piece goals..
4 penalties, 7 set-pieces. What difference does that make? In either case it's less impressive than open play goals when you're using goals to judge whether or not his general level is as good as it once was.
All we need is another narcissistic cnut named Harry in the team.
Feck off. I want winners.
Feck off. I want winners.
It means he scored 19 non penalty goals this season. Which is all that counts if you want to analyse it from open play. Trying to deflect because he scored from a freakin’ corner is just silly. That’s what we want.
It obviously isn't all that counts though. Because you pointed to goals as a measure of whether Kane's general ability as a footballer has declined from his peak when he was younger. And scoring goals in dynamic situations rather than off set plays clearly tells you more in that regard.
For example if Kane has lost pace or altered his game so that he's in the box less often, that impacts his ability to score goals in open play. Not his ability to head in a corner.
It's not an argument about whether we'd want those set-piece goals too, which we obviously would. It's an argument about whether he could have got those set-piece goals while also having declined as a footballer generally as he ages, which he obviously could.
We get to see him next Thursday up against our defence.
Won't be pretty.
Won't be pretty.
So when he was dynamic and scored 18 from open play how many was from penalties that season?
The way I see it. If he has the ability to score goals during the flow of a football game what is the problem. If a large percentage is due to penalties like Bruno and Lacazette. Then yes there is a point for concern. But this is not the case… Teams will always get set pieces.
Whether he’s on the decline or not it’s clear his game has changed and he doesn’t fancy playing up against CB’s as much as he used to. We need someone who will play up there, work opposition defences and score the goals.
18 open play, 1 set-piece, 4 penalties. That was 20/21.
His open play goal numbers by season track like this: 3, 11, 17, 20, 21, 9, 16, 18, 11, 12. That 9 goal season in the middle being when he had those ligament injuries.
I wouldn't particularly care if he got all his goals from set-pieces, as long as he gets enough of them. But if you're using goals as a measure of how his general ability might be holding up, you'd prefer to see him bagging them by being a monster in open play instead.