Manchester United

[Vermilion]

Well it is isn't it, especially at 40mill.

[Daniel 7]

And how exactly would they have to specifically set up to stop him?

He is not a very pacy player that can be countered by sitting deeper.

He is not a skillful player that would require man marking.

He is not a powerhouse player that needs to be met like for like.

I dunno, I'm not pretending to be a manager of a premier league football team, but what he strikes me as being is someone who is full of energy who never stops moving - that energy seems to have served him well this season (along with bags of natural enthusiasm), so my point is that next season, there will be plans put in place to nullify him, because there will be all manner of DVD's of his habits and playing style your better managers will use to work out what to do with him.

A lot of these types have their season in the sun where they look like world beaters, look at Heskey! I just can't see it lasting with Harry Kane.

[danperkins]

It certainly will be interesting to see how he gets on next season when defenders are more aware of him. He does have a natural grit and determination about him though & a fantastic work rate. Certainly seems to have a eye for goal.

[Shaggy]

He's a fascinating case, cos he's done so well this season without glaringly obvious assets like pace or skill. It's almost as if he's done a deal with the devil, and when he plays defenders have their boots filled with lead or something. Haha. I still think he's the new Michael Ricketts. Walsall in two years.

[Doc_Piptorious]

I dunno, I'm not pretending to be a manager of a premier league football team, but what he strikes me as being is someone who is full of energy who never stops moving - that energy seems to have served him well this season (along with bags of natural enthusiasm), so my point is that next season, there will be plans put in place to nullify him, because there will be all manner of DVD's of his habits and playing style your better managers will use to work out what to do with him.

A lot of these types have their season in the sun where they look like world beaters, look at Heskey! I just can't see it lasting with Harry Kane.

Don't think anyone in this thread has said that they expect the same from him again next season.

What some, including me, have said is that he may well develop into a pretty useful striker, and that he appears to have the sort of qualities that do not rely on diminishing traits like pace.


My point about setting up defences to nullify him what more to highlight that he does not have many of the obvious traits that back lines can be drilled to stop.

Look at guys from the past like Lineker, Shearer, Rush, Van Nistlerooy and the like. None of them were skill machines like Suarez, or pace merchants like Henry. None of them really would come from deep on a regular basis and beat a few men enroute to goal.

But all of them had good movement. All of them made clever runs and were able to read the game well. All of them worked hard, and all of them even if marshalled well by a back line knew how to make that one chance they got count.

Not saying that Kane is nailed on to be at that level, but what he has shown this season are a lot of qualities that those players and players of that ilk have shown in the past.

On paper those players should be easy to figure out and to defend against as they have no outstanding physical qualities, but all those players had that priceless ability to use movement to buy themselves that extra fraction of a second and all of them have a coolness in front of goal that allowed them to convert a lot of the chances that fell to them.

I think Kane might, just might, be that sort of player and that he might go on to be a player that, whilst not notching like he did this season, might have what it takes to be a very regular finisher as long as he is in a team with players good enough to feed the runs he makes.

[Doc_Piptorious]

He's a fascinating case, cos he's done so well this season without glaringly obvious assets like pace or skill. It's almost as if he's done a deal with the devil, and when he plays defenders have their boots filled with lead or something. Haha. I still think he's the new Michael Ricketts. Walsall in two years.

Ricketts relied heavily on power and pace though and had no bit of guile about him when met with a packed defence. After his big season defences either sat that bit deeper against him or the ones with big lumps of their own marked him pretty tightly.

He also lost his pace pretty early in his career and had weight issues that left him as a fairly slow moving lump

[Gibbo]

Marca suggesting De Gea has agreed terms with Madrid.

Aren't they pretty much Real's mouthpeice?

[McDermotX]

Usually......or sometimes just agitators in a potential transfer.

Massive loss for them if he leaves. Got them to the CL. Well......qualifiers only, hopefully.

[danperkins]

Lloris seems to be the one linked with them if De Gea... not too shabby.

[BigChief]

Just remembered Cech will be available. God I hope he doesn't go there.

[G]

Was going to ask, would Jose allow it, but he worships them so of course he would.

[Robbie-9-Fowler]

Begovic?

Got to be a good chance of Krul.

[Gray]

Lloris nailed on

[Robbie-9-Fowler]

Lloris nailed on

I'm sure Levy will have something to say about that, I'd guess he'd be more likely to go to PSG.

[Gray]

Probably the same as when he sold them Carrick and Dimitar Berbatov