Harry Kane

oohaahmortimer said:

A more than decent fella and his attitude, desire to win and the spirit he plays the game in is an example to all .
He gets battered every game and gets on with it , no histrionics and hissy fits , just gets on with it .
What a player , shame he plays for spurs and played for the scum (Young Player of the year for the 2011-12)

I thought I was on the Bonne thread for a moment 

Fantastic achievement and a genuine world class player. Also seems like a top fella. 
Not wanting to wind our Spurs fan member up but he really needs to leave in the Summer as he deserves to win some Trophies before he finishes playing

Incredible achievement.

And he is a decent fella from a very decent and down to earth family which seems rare with regards to the elite level.

MuttleyCAFC said:

Chris_from_Sidcup said:

MuttleyCAFC said:

Congratulations to him. A genuinely epic achievement. Now the question is how far he can take it. Another 20 isn't out of the question. I thought he was man of the match tonight.

Definitely with the amount of internationals these days. Just in 2023 England have another 9 games. He's 30 in the summer but his game doesn't rely on pace, so you can see him being around for quite a while yet.

22 of his 54 goals have come since 2021, so you'd think if he played another 3-4 years he could get to around 75 if he stays fit.

What would help is if he is played against the lesser teams. I recall him being rested for games like San Marino in the past. If there is a game where you expect to win by at least five, if I was Kane I'd want to be starting that!

Sure I heard last night that something like 80% of all his England goals have been in competitive football. 

Kane deserves respect, look at the youngsters coming through they are shown as being more respectful to one another and they all work their nuts off every game.

Lead by example. 

JohnBoyUK said:

AndyG said:

Fantastic achievement and a genuine world class player. Also seems like a top fella. 
Not wanting to wind our Spurs fan member up but he really needs to leave in the Summer as he deserves to win some Trophies before he finishes playing

You wont wind me up by saying that as I totally agree with you.  He needs to go now.
Its absolutely shameful the stick he gets for having no medals, he doesn't deserve the abuse he gets. 

Real Madrid ? .. 

I think last night showed once again how good he is on & off the ball 
Lead by example exactly how a captain should be we are lucky to have him in the England team 

JohnBoyUK said:

Lincsaddick said:

JohnBoyUK said:

AndyG said:

Fantastic achievement and a genuine world class player. Also seems like a top fella. 
Not wanting to wind our Spurs fan member up but he really needs to leave in the Summer as he deserves to win some Trophies before he finishes playing

You wont wind me up by saying that as I totally agree with you.  He needs to go now.
Its absolutely shameful the stick he gets for having no medals, he doesn't deserve the abuse he gets. 

Real Madrid ? .. 

I'd much prefer him to go abroad but I can't see it.
He goes with my blessing to anywhere he wants... with the notable exceptions of Arsenal and Chelsea.

Head says he'll end up at United with Eriksen again and Levy will take a Harry Maguire makeweight with cash.  There's sweet FA chance that Levy will allow him to leave on a free transfer.

(For the record, and not meaning to go off on a Tangent, I dont think there's any possible managerial change that would make Harry want to stay).

Is Munich off the table as an option?

United would be a good fit, as to for different reasons, would be Liverpool.

Cafc43v3r said:

JohnBoyUK said:

Lincsaddick said:

JohnBoyUK said:

AndyG said:

Fantastic achievement and a genuine world class player. Also seems like a top fella. 
Not wanting to wind our Spurs fan member up but he really needs to leave in the Summer as he deserves to win some Trophies before he finishes playing

You wont wind me up by saying that as I totally agree with you.  He needs to go now.
Its absolutely shameful the stick he gets for having no medals, he doesn't deserve the abuse he gets. 

Real Madrid ? .. 

I'd much prefer him to go abroad but I can't see it.
He goes with my blessing to anywhere he wants... with the notable exceptions of Arsenal and Chelsea.

Head says he'll end up at United with Eriksen again and Levy will take a Harry Maguire makeweight with cash.  There's sweet FA chance that Levy will allow him to leave on a free transfer.

(For the record, and not meaning to go off on a Tangent, I dont think there's any possible managerial change that would make Harry want to stay).

Is Munich off the table as an option?

United would be a good fit, as to for different reasons, would be Liverpool.

I don't think he will want to go abroad as I think he wants to beat the English goal scoring record

One of the funniest things I've seen in Football: https://streamin.me/v/4f8e225e

Todds_right_hook said:

Algarveaddick said:

Great player, brilliant for England, we are lucky to have him. I admire his loyalty to Spurs, I don't recall too many on CL cheering Parker leaving because he needed to win trophies? 

"Needing" to win trophies is a cliche used by greedy players and covetous managers and has now permeated into the psyche of too many football fans. 

Well done Harry!   

I really don't think the Parker comparison is fair. Parker left us at age 22? For a pay day. He could have stayed with us to finish the job, get us into Europe and go with England to a major tournament in the summer, then leave. 

I think Sven said at the time that if he was playing regular football, he would have been in the England squad. Parker chose £ and to sit on a bench.

kane has given spurs loyal service and they have won 0 with a final or two and champions league football along the way. 

Kane is nearly 30 and if he leave spurs in the summer, it's to have a serious shot at winning silverware and not driven by ££. Well done hary kane for being loyal and achieving what he has achieved.

Parker left us when he was 23 years and 105 days old. Approximately. He played 145 games for us and still ended up playing another 450 career games despite only supposedly leaving to sit on the bench. We got £10m for him. How many other players have we sold for that? Others leave at the age of 17 or 18 for the same reasons and we receive next to nothing. But we trust the word of a Chairman, as opposed to Parker, because it suits our agenda to do so when we know that the very same deal broke down in the previous summer. And we now say that we cannot trust that very same Chairman on almost everything else that has gone on at CAFC in the last decade. But it's all Parker's fault. Even Curbs disagrees with that one. 

According to Wikipedia Parker played 15 games for Chelsea in a season and a half. Not sure how many were starts. 

Don't think there's any doubt he cut short all his momentum that season to sit on Chelsea's bench for 18 months.

Manic_mania said:

According to Wikipedia Parker played 15 games for Chelsea in a season and a half. Not sure how many were starts. 

Don't think there's any doubt he cut short all his momentum that season to sit on Chelsea's bench for 18 months.

But you can't judge a player's career by 18 months can you? He might never have got that move. We might never have got £10m for him which helped us to fund the purchase of players in no small measure. We might never have qualified for Europe. It is all hypothetical. 

There's a lad who was playing for our first team at the start of the season and who has now been released. Nobody really cares what that's done to him bar himself, his friends and family. Yes plenty will wish him well but that is as far as it goes. That might well, ultimately, be the right decision for all parties but we don't know. However, the notion that the whole episode of being put in the first team, out of position and then sent packing six months later isn't likely to harm the lad's mental state and confidence is a fallacy. He wasn't good enough in our eyes so it doesn't matter. But a Parker or a James Beadle and we are up in arms. 

The point is that a football club has no more obligation to the career of a footballer than a footballer has to us. It is not a one way street. 

Kane will be one of those players that big clubs hesitate to sign because of his age, but he will then just carry on scoring goals.

And then when he gets to 32-33 - no doubt there will be a lot of managers and fan bases that will wish they had just taken the punt and got it done rather than over thinking it. But by then, it would probably be too late to have got the best out of him that they could have had.