Not watching the Spurs game but Brennan is trending on Twitter and not for entirely positive reasons.
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They were saying he was shit the other week too. His dad won’t find their fans very forgiving and given his propensity to argue with anyone who criticises his son, I doubt he’ll feature in the away end until Brennan finds some form.
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They were raving about him a few games ago. It can't help that Postecoglu is playing a front 4 featuring no one who can actually play centre forward - Richarlison and Son are both freelancing number 10s, and Kulusevski and Johnson are both wide forwards. It's not hugely surprising if he's struggling to figure out what his actual role is.
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Not sure that Richarlison is a No. 10. To me more a 9 who doesn't score very much....and for the record, I'd take him.
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For me a number 9 needs to have a fair degree of discipline, to understand what runs to make and to understand that they need to make them in the knowledge that a lot of the time the ball won't make it to them. Richarlison spends way too much time drifting out wide, dropping deep, trying to do something clever and as a result not being where his teammates need him to be in order to be a consistent outlet that they can trust, and thus it impacts their decision making. He's a very talented player, and there's definitely room for him in most teams, but I don't think it's as a centre forward.
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Now swap "Richarlison" for "Kane" in what you wrote.
Seamless.
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Even given your obsessive and unreasoning antipathy to Kane, to describe him as a “no 9 who doesn’t score very much” is stretching things. Whatever else Kane might be, the statistics really do not support “non-scoring”.
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Read it again. Substitute it in what Russ wrote.
I think Kane is a fantastic finisher. I don't think Richarlison is the player that Russ described. I think Kane is.
Yeah. Imagine someone saying that. Oh. You did.
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Just imagine how many goals Kane would score if he was a consistent outlet that his teammates can trust as oppose to some crazed maverick who’s too busy being in the wrong place trying to do it all himself.
(it is possible, I think, to believe that Kane’s goals come at a cost that a top team may be better off not paying.. and also that it is batshit to say his problem is that he is what was described above.)
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As you alude to the problem isn't all his goals, he's a fantastic finisher as I have always said. It's the cost of them to the team. I prefer a number 9 who works the opposition defense, heading towards the goal, making the average position of the team on the field closer to the opponents goal. Putting them under pressure, working them hard. So than an aging croatian team break under the pressure, rather than conserve their energy and come back and beat us in the semi's.
The notion that a player is the 'best' and so should play every minute, of every game, is plain stupid for a striker. Football is littered with 'better' players who have played less, to suit the overall team shape more successfully. Kane doesn't make number 9 runs (across the near post, between defenders, into where it hurts). He heads the wrong way and makes second phase runs, and far post goalhanging. The individual numbers from that are great...but you don't keep teams down when you have them.
Tactics by team selection is a particularly dumb football fan construct.
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Yeah. Imagine someone saying that. Oh, nobody did.
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Gareth Southgate/The FA?
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I don't know if he still does it for England but Bayern appear to have cured Kane of his habit of hiding beyond the back post.
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Nobody knows. We will go into the next tournament and get what we get, having failed to adequately prepare any other options. Which is frankly nuts given the resources available to engerland.
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Oh right yes. Fair enough. But I wish you’d tell us when you’ve moved to a completely different conversation to the one everyone else is on.
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Isn't that a bit raw prawn-ish? I said the notion, I didn't accuse anyone of saying it, and the whole spin off conversation arose because @Brid criticised me for saying that Kane was a no.9 who doesn't scored very much. Which I didn't.
I can't legislate for the voices in other peoples head. I'm just trying to help with reading and comprehension.
How else are we going to have an actually satisfying argument?
