Why Every Team Would Be Better With Harry Kane
Ahead of Saturday’s Der Klassiker between Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund, I wrote about Harry Kane, who might be better than ever before:
Tottenham are not better because they're without Harry Kane. In nine Bundesliga starts so far this season, Kane has scored 12 goals and added five assists. Those 17 goal contributions are more than Erling Haaland, Kylian Mbappé ... and every other player in Europe's Big Five leagues. Strip out the three penalties, and still: no one has contributed to more goals. Only Stuttgart's Serhou Guirassy can match Kane's output.
It's pretty simple. The whole point of soccer is to create more goals than the other team, and Kane has created more goals than anyone else in Europe. Every team would be better with Harry Kane.
Hope you’re all staying as well as you can. Enjoy the weekend, everyone.
As a Sheffield United supporter, I couldn’t agree more.. his physical understanding of space, the vectors of teammates and his ‘bubble’ of controlled flow, are out of this world. There are many ‘average’ strikers who are physically capable of doing anything he does, but his noggin, the ‘footballing brain’ is otherworldly. We’d be mid table with Kane in the team.