He does introduce himself as Alfie in almost every video and advertises his own channel with his name in it at the end of most videos so I don’t know how you’ve done that tbh 😂
Few years ago, the 'no trophy' memes were funny to see.. but now it's just sad that how much bad luck he has.. with his contribution as a striker, he deserves so many trophies...
To add more insults, Bayern had the manager who somehow relegated Premier League team to the Championship team. The club obviously faced tremendous pressures when it comes to winning the silverware. Would be surprised if Bayern went trophyless again for the 24/25 season and even finished outside Top 4 of Bundesliga (and no UCL football for the next season after that). Even Bayern's own stadium, the Allianz Arena, will host the UCL Final, and the last time the UCL Final was held in this ground it was a nightmare for Bayern themselves.
Harry Kane's career by numbers: 643 games 406 goals 3x PL Golden Boot 1x PL Playmaker Award 1x UCL Golden Boot 1x World Cup Golden Boot 1x Torjägerkanone 1x European Golden Shoe 1x European Championship Golden Boot Harry Kane has still not won a trophy for Tottenham, Bayern Munich and England. The Kane curse is actually real! 😭😭😭
Yeah, that 2018 World Cup needs some context. Sure, he scored 6 goals. Half of them were pens. 5 of them were against Tunisia and Panama (the 6th was again a pen) in two group matches that definitely can't be considered big matches.
Yeah I thought Alfie tried to change the conversation by talking about his club record in derbies but these are just games in a season usually with spurs not challenging the title. He might be a record European scorer in the knockout rounds but he has played far more games than Muller because the tournaments are larger and how many has he scored from the qf on. It would be one thing if England were a smaller side but they played the last euros at home for every game and this one were favourites
Fans who think he was healthy or that player can rule himself out are dumb. This is 100% on Southgate. And in my opinion it was clear cut decision after it was obvious Kane wasnt fit enough to be as effective as he usually is. But Southgate is stubborn AF. As he was with Foden. Palmer shoud've replaced Foden as a starter.
Scaloni was in a similar boat, but he quickly adjusted and dropped Lautaro for Alvarez during the WC and it worked wonders. I honestly think English managers are just not on par with other top nations.
I mean, there is no guarantee the options of Watkins or Toney would have been better, I think you vastly underestimate how much better Kane is. The only real option would have been to play Bellingham in his more advanced Madrid role, but England doesn't really have the wingers to do that imo.
@@1998Cebola I very much fail to see how it could have been any worse by starting Watkins or Toney, and why this was not an realistic option in your mind. They both had the prerequisites to provide the fundamentals (pressing, counter attacking, creating space with runs, etc) that Kane was so obviously lacking due to his physical condition. Starting Kane every game basically guaranteed that the team would be inadequate in all these areas until he was subbed out.
the Kane curse is now official canon I think he is a great player and not to blame for euro 2024 defeat - that was on Southgate's poor coaching/tactics. That said, a reputation for cursed luck can take on a life of its own eventually
He played awful the majority of the tournament. I'm not sure if he's hurt, tired, or just doesn't care. He stood around waiting for the ball, made 0 runs, and created virtually no opportunities for his teammates. Without fail every time Kane was subbed out, there was life in the English attack. If he was hurt they should have been subbing him out way sooner, or subbing him in at 70 minutes.
I think the fact that one of the first excuses to come from Southgate was that Kane wasn't fit and not up to match speed speaks volumes, to both Kanes' ability and Southgate's decision-making.
Kane's record in major finals and semi finals including both legs is 22 matches, just one non-penalty goal. Whether you want to believe it or not, he often fails to deliver what we know he's capable of in the biggest matches. Having said that he's still an extraordinary player and has had some terrible luck when it comes to winning trophies, mostly due to the teams he's played in. I hope that one day he wins something
fr tho next level glazing from this channel that i didnt expect. the two most important games and he disappears in them. works for me tho cuz i dont want england to win shit lol
@@jvillanueva2978us non England fans can see it better, you wont ever see stats like that on English media😅 no hate though he's still an amazing player
His record against Top 6 EPL & Top 30 ranked Fifa teams without penalties is at best average, it's about 1 in 4 games, but my fellow England fans ride him so hard that any criticism is simply not allowed. He's an above average player that beats up on average teams, he simply doesn't scare world class defenders as he won't run past them, he plays a style that is from 20 years ago when teams played 4-4-2. For Kane to be a trophy winning CF he needs a partner that will run past the defenders to open up space. This Euros people have finally started to catch up with just how much of a problem Kane is for England being successful, we looked completely different with Watkins on the field when he stretched the defensive line by running off their shoulder
@@jvillanueva2978I don't like HITC covering England and politically related topic. It's so obvious that he has too many biases. As a non-white man, it's so painful to hear him talk about political stuff. He also loves to insert political statements when the topic is England related. I rarely say this, but he should just stick to talking about football.
I must confess, I often fired up the Twitter during England's games at the Euros and, once I'd got past all the unsolicited tweets by Nigel Farage, his supporters and the OnlyFans bots, I came to the unavoidable conclusion that Gareth Southgate's replacement as England manager needs to be made up of a consortium of random men from Twitter.
I've been thinking about that. Or how in CL, the final was his first appearance for us in the tournament, since the group stage. Gaffers have the mentality "if your best player is available, you pick him". Even if he's not match fit apparently
It's a shame. Harry was definitely recovering from some sort of injury. Was expecting a lot better from him. He didn't protest coming off at any point in the game, suggesting he knew it was for the best. Movement was so lethargic and painful to watch. Of course it's easy to imagine what it would have been if others were given more of a chance, swapping out fast paced attackers and people who can hold the ball in the box and actually be in the box when a ball is delivered. The wasted potential of Gordon, Toney, Watkins (starting) and even Bowen (I'm a biased West Ham fan, but he has the strength to hold the ball on runs, gets on some low headers because he is short and can also cross it in nicely - the reason that West Ham were not in a relegation fight). Maybe stubbornness on Southgate's part? He was never one to make the difficult mid-match decisions. Too many options, not enough vision and bravery.
It’s was said that he had some kind of back problem in the UCL semi final second leg against Madrid. He was taken off for ECM. Maybe it’s true as back pain is difficult to compensate compared to leg or foot injuries
@@tatendamhuriro2735 yeh I remember watching that game and when he got taken off I knew it must have been bad. He was a talisman for Bayern last season. I watched a lot of Bundesliga (mainly for Leverkusen's Invincible run) but Harry was next level. Never seen someone dominate a league for goals and assists like that in their first season. I was excited for Euros because having him work at that level he did last season would have been a gift if he didn't have that injury. Also something that wasn't mentioned, Harry just doesn't work well with players like Bellingham, Saka and Foden around him. He likes the pace from the wings to push up ahead of him. Bayern had Musiala and Sane providing that for Kane. It's why so many people were screaming for Gordon to get a chance to run ahead and pass the ball back into the space where Kane was so he could take a shot while the defenders were too occupied with the other players running ahead. Just wish we could have seen that once. Maybe then it would have clicked for Southgate.
No he has been playing like this for years. He hid in midfield in 2021 and goes missing in big games. His style means that HE scores loads of goals but against difficult opponents, he is ineffective
To be fair to Harry Kane. Not only is he struggling with club trophys, but also national team ones, that is unfair, if you compare him with someone like Zlatan, who had less of a chance of ever winning anything with Sweden. But England is half expected, although it's been MANY years since, to win either Euros or World Cup. But let's also be fair here. Tottenham would only always be considered an outsider and Bayern was just bad luck. Next season he'll win the Bundesliga and finally get a trophy he does deserve.
As a Tottenham Fan the club hasn’t always been as wealthy as other Premier League big 6 clubs and we lacked squad depth which what is needed if you want to win a trophy without sacrificing another competition
@@aryamanmani4025 Yeah everybody at the start of last season thought Bayern winning the league would be certain & then look what happened, so yes, I wouldn't be certain Bayern will win the league, I will just say they are favourites & should.
Bayern finishing third in the bundesliga despite having by far the biggest budget is unlucky??? They played 34 games over the course of a year and finished 18 points of the champions despite going out of the cup in the second round to a team in the third tier. That’s not even close. What’s unlucky about that? That’s shit. They were convincingly beat in every tournament they played in by teams with lesser budgets. Kane may be a good player but he does not win the big one and that’s more than coincidence at this point
No need to speculate as time will tell. I did have my concerns when he went to Germany and to see Bayern fall off the pace so far did surprise me. Looking forward to next season to see for sure.
I'm honestly annoyed at both Kane and Southgate. When it became apparent that Kane was not fully fit, he should have been benched. We were essentially playing down a man. As he proved with his two goals, you'd back him to score chances in the box. He should have been coming off the bench with 10-15 minutes to go, staying high and finishing off those chances. Given his injury, this should have been his role in the team. Kane should have done the team thing and benched himself and Southgate should have been brave enough to do it. You'd think Kane would have learned from what happened when he started the Champions League final. He has cost his team's twice.
Before the game, Kane said he would literally trade his entire career for this trophy win. You have to think of it from his POV. Professional athletes have to possess an almost delusional level of self-belief and confidence in their abilities to be mentally strong enough to make it at the top. Esp for someone like Kane who was written off so many times with the lower league loan moves. On top of that, Euro finals only come around every 4 years. This was possibly Kane's last Euros (at least as a starter) Do you really think he's going to rule himself out of a start?? Blame Southgate's horror tactics.
@@stevendchu oh it’s no doubt it’s on Southgate mainly. But Kane didn’t contribute either. As captain and leader on the pitch, he deserves a lot of the blame.
He was clearly injured and playing through it. He has never been quick but I also don't think that he can play to his strengths in this current England side. He always played with 'runners' along side him at both Spurs and Bayern. Even at the start of his England career he had Sterling and Rashford along side him which helped him a lot.
Should do a video about what is happening at Jeonbuk Hyundai Fc. Gone from one of the best teams in Korea to near the bottom of the league, quite likely to be relegated
Kane is the most natural goalscorer, England has had since Lineker. Lineker never won a league title - even in three years at Barcelona. He played for one season at Everton, a season sandwiched between two title winning seasons for the club. He never won a European Cup. He won an FA Cup with Spurs in 1991. And a European Cup Winners Cup with Barca in 1989. Obviously won nothing with England. Are we saying Kane’s legacy will be tainted by the fact, he didn’t win a couple of poxy league cups at Spurs, or a Europa Conference League? Great players, do go entire careers without major silverware. It’s easier than you think. Even at Bayern, their trophy haul was going to come to a brief halt at some point. Kane just happened to be there, when this happened. It’s coincidence. Nothing more, nothing less. Besides, chances are Bayern will clean up next season. They take trophyless seasons, personally, there.
Kane has missed a lot of key chances that would have aided his team at the time (Bayern & England notably) to progress slightly to winning a trophy. He's not a big game player.
Yep. Gerrard of course never won a league with Liverpool but is generally regarded as one of England's greatest midfielders, & from what I've seen, in the Gerrard Lampard Scholes debate, generally comes out on top.
He won a champions league and fa cup pn his own. Whereas Kane lost every final and was always the worst on the pitch in finals. He is just a choker, has great technical ability but just doesn't have the personality to win. @@r4h4al
something in what Gareth Southgate said afterwards about 'missed a lot of minutes at the end of the season' makes me thing his rationale for playing him in the group stage was to give him time to shake of whatever was wrong. Problem was it self-evidently wasn't working (and if it was his back then it's hard to see how you shake that off) so the issue then was a lack of a Plan B. I actually think he could see what everyone else could see but avoided the very public 'can of worms' by dropping Kane - preferring to hope it all clicked at some later stage.
You forgot to also mention that Kane was completely unfit when he played in the champions League final with Spurs. He hadn't played for about 2 months. Lucas mora ( who scored a hatrick in the semi final ) was unfairly dropped in the final.
I still believe that we could have started both of them because they don't even play the same position. Poch messed up, but also that pen in the 1st minute killed them.
@@theweblenz6458I think Kane as good a player as he was had to much power. His free kicks were extremely poor for Spurs, i think he only ever scored 1 goal from a deflected FK despite taking all of the attacking ones for many years. Dont get me wrong.. Kanes a terrific player but when something isnt right people need to call it out.
Kane's back injury reminds me of when Wayne Rooney was carrying an injury into the 2006 World Cup and didn’t tell Sven because he wanted to play at the World Cup.
He had been rushed back from a broken metatarsal to play in the World Cup so I imagine Eriksson must have had some idea that he was far from full fitness
@@jmo4952 to be fair, the Kane curse is irrelevant when discussing England in my opinion. They've been the biggest bottle jobs in international football ever since 1966.
@@StelBoy2008 England might have won the Euro more recently, but it's for the women's team in 2022 (which was held at home soil). Yet they still lose the Women's World Cup Final to Spain, the same script that was eventually repeated in the men's side of Euro Final this year. In fact, England senior team had only won the major tournament if they were the hosts. That should have been happened in Euro 2020 Final as well vs Italy at Wembley, but hell no, Kane and Southgate bottled it.
@@EliasRoy Actually, the only time England had won the trophies in the foreign soil was the 2003 Rugby World Cup, when they beat Australia in the Final. Other than that, they are simply nowhere to be found when it comes to sport events outside UK 😂😂😂😂😂😂
The problem with Kane is the same problem Rooney had as he got older. At some point the defenders DON'T follow him because he spends pretty much all his time dropped deep and either can't or is too slow/exhausted to push forward into a dangerous position most of the time. Defenders will end up giving up the few times he does and then scores for all the times he doesn't so they can focus on the more higher up attackers.
To further insult on Harry Kane's luck, Bayern's current manager had just relegated Burnley back to the Championship this season. The club now faced tremendous pressures when it comes to winning the silverware, as Vincent Kompany's tactics seemingly unsuitable for this kind of historic European clubs.
@@wolfmauler Probably yes. But sometimes, having an underrated coach doesn't meant the club will suffer heavily. Frank Rijkaard's reputation as an elite manager came after his disastrous reign with Sparta Rotterdam, where his club got relegated from Eredivisie at the time he was appointed as Barcelona manager. What followed up was simply the beginning of Barcelona's golden era, as the club won 2 La Liga titles and the Champions League title with the likes of Ronaldinho and Samuel Eto'o. Don't forget that he was also responsible for introducing the future GOAT Lionel Messi to the world football.
His managers are not strong enough to rest him. But he doesn't manage to rise to the occasion in finals either. During the season he's twice the striker someone like Drogba was, but during finals he's barely a quarter of the player.
I'm not a Kane fan but whenever one of my teams, be it club or country has a game against the team he's reppin', I KNOW it's going to be a tough game. The guy can score at will when he's fit which he obviously wasn't at Euro 2024. He is without a shadow of a doubt one of, if not England's greatest number 9.
@@Goat-xw9ox Its funny how Wayne Rooney named him England's greatest striker and the likes of Shearer/Lineker rank him in the conversation and you say he's not close. I'm sure you know more than them...
My criticism of Kane is the same I had with Suárez in 2019. Don't play through an injury. Haters gonna hate either way. For his own good, and England's, Kane should've insisted to Southgate on his lack of fitness, so Watkins could be the starter, while Kane assumed a moral support role as captain, and perhaps a super sub to get in the last 10 minutes.
I swear if head not played Euro 2024 cause he wasn't 100% people especially Twitter experts would call him all kinds of names and make him a scapegoat once again... He can't win.
@@salmansengul once you reach the level of fame Kane has, haters gonna hate no matter what you do. Not even winning a world cup will make them change their minds (look at Messi's case for instance). Better prioritize your health and fitness.
I mean at least Alan Shearer won the EPL title with Blackburn Rovers in 1995 even if his trophy cabinet was more empty than his talent suggested but surely there's very few players of Harry Kane's profile that ended their playing career completely trophyless
I doubt Kane will finish trophyless, still only 31 who can probably play into his mid 30s given he’s always been the type of player who relies more on positional play rather than explosive speed running in behind, I’ll be staggered if he doesn’t win something big within the next 3-4 years
I got about 7 minutes into this video but realised I just do not care enough nor really have an opinion on Harry Kane... "Sorry, We Need To Talk About Skirting Boards".
While I agree with most of what you say, there is a strong case for Kane hindering a team; very much like Ronaldo or Messi do at their age: Ronaldo is toast, Argentina were better without Messi in 2024, and England cannot come to terms with Kane's style of playing. On another note: what impressed me most about the Spanish team was that they could go all the way without Pedri, and even lose Rodri at half time in the final, but still play as a wonderful unit. I have followed football for a very long time, but cannot actively remember a team that survived after such losses. The most beloved Garrincha came to the rescue of Brazil in 1962, Geoff Hurst to England in 1966 and Paolo Rossi to Italy in 1982, but these are legends, the only one of which I witnesses in 1982.
Lack of fitness was a big issue, however, the system didn't help, he had no pace around him to link with, like he has previously whilst flourishing with sterling, rashford, and son. He had too many players around his area of the pitch such as foden and Bellingham.
There's a bunch of faceless guys with loads of trophies and not a single individual accolade the world has forgotten. No one will ever forget Harry Kane.
Lad there are kids ALREADY who dont know Steven Gerrard ever played the game. Kane will go down as a bottle merchant. Whether it is his fault or not. If your name isnt engraved in silver you will be forgotten, hell even if it is sometimes you do.
@@rowancarreira2826 I’m not questioning his skill. Merely that the idea that nobody will forget him is absurd. Far better players have been and will be forgotten. That’s all
It was not a foul on Kane. It was a bad call by the var and Saka made 2 hand balls before the dive by Kane and also before that the ball should have been given to the dutch but was given to England by the ref. He made 2 goals and was handed one.
I don't think you understand what a dive is. It's very clear there's contact, that doesn't mean it's a penalty, but claiming it's a dive? Dives are contactless or extreme exaggeration of minimal contact. Kane kicked into Dumfries' raised studs. That's going to hurt.
Do you have any idea how many crucial decisions have gone against England in major international tournaments? In ways MUCH worse than that. The one time it goes in our favour (in a debatable foul) and you can't stop banging on about it. England played better than the Dutch. The one game we played decently and deserved to win. Get over it.
Throw in some Tottenham tax too. People will scoff at the 'Tottenham top scorer' thing because they're not very intelligent. The man he beat is the top scorer in English top flight history FFS. Nevermind that Tottenham had one of the highest top scorer records in the country, I think maybe Liverpool and one other have a higher top scorer tally than Tottenham. To cut it short, people just aren't very intelligent and they're not helped by the lack of intelligence and knowledge from pundits either.
@@LiamJM10 Spot on. Seen way too many comments about how his goal record suddenly isn't impressive and was "against minnows in dead rubbers" simply because he (like the rest of England) had a mediocre tournament. Never mind that he is a 3x Golden Boot winner in the Prem.
Thank you. I’m an American, and I also couldn’t be accused of being the most die hard encyclopedic football fan, but I’ve always followed Bayern and I try to watch whatever games I can of any org… I think you nailed it when you said it: the people saying some of this stuff simply don’t actually watch football or don’t understand/process it when they watch it. Just watching him play, at basically any stage, let you know that he has not washed up or even playing particularly poorly. Even the more subtle narrative that he is a choke artist or something like that simply doesn’t make any sense if you watch the games at all. Except for that one PK, you can’t point to any significant meltdowns that cost a team their campaign,. Hell even that PK is ‘just one of those things.’ Sometimes people miss a kick, that’s why the game is played.. if he was notorious for whiffing an empty net that be one thing, but he has consistently been excellent, and has frankly just had bad fortune from a combination of luck and occasional failure of a team, all that kind of stuff… There are a lot of amazing players whose legacy is a little tarnished because they don’t bring home the big ones. I mean for fuck sake, look at what people said about Messi because of World Cup failures before the end there.. Like I said, I’m an American and a borderline casual fan, so if I can see all this and make sense of it, it means that people making these claims are either unbelievably stupid or need to spend less time online regurgitating opinions they haven’t earned
The fact that Kane has so many individual trophies without a single team trophy is even more impressive. He's that good without a superclub behind him like most others.
He’s spent his career for serial bottlers spurs and England two teams known for being psychologically weak in big competitions. How much if that is him personally and how much his teammates is debatable but playing most of your life for teams famous for choking doesn’t help.
As said in the video, the most knock-out goals of any European player ever in international tournaments. Insane CL records. Insane records against all major clubs he faced with Spurs. If anything, he could be accused of not statpadding enough against weaker teams to get his numbers up.
England have only ever reached three finals. In the three successful semi finals, he's played in two of them and scored twice. The other was 30 years before he was even born. You are the exact person this video is criticizing. Room temperature IQ.
This just further argues how stubborn and borderline pathetic Southgate's management is. He had some of the best players sitting on the bench in a tournament where competition was very lackluster. Arguably, the game we expected to lose was always going to be Spain, yet we were almost eliminated on multiple occasions.
I agree, it was odd for a manager of a team of this caliber to play a painkiller-ridden talisman while resting the EPL Playmaker of the Season on the bench. Southgate has made some of the most questionable decisions of this EURO.
@in4mus85 I've watched england for a long time, we have been far below mediocre. Semi final, final, quarter final, final is extraordinary. Best tournaments of my lifetime. Was tired of not qualifying or going out to Iceland or in the group stage. I guess you need to be old enough to have some perspective
In regards to the fitness/injury question, it frankly reflects terribly on Kane and the coaching staff if he was starting every single game IF his injury was so pronounced and clear
Incorrect. Kane isn’t fast and it affects the game stat drastically. The more important the game, the more this matters. This is why Kane is a serial loser.
Kane never arrived in the box. The wingers were far, far too quick for him. He's been driving me mad for years. He drops way to deep and I have been screaming pull him off (so to speak) since '21.
@@Stegibbon a forward who can’t get in behind the defense limits the option a team has greatly. Ollie would have changed things a lot and given the other 3 attacking players more space
Kane will always be one of the greatest players in Spurs and English history but unironically both entities are so similar in their lack of success at their respective competitions. He's been part of teams that have no doubt become emblematic in the history of respective institutions and its no fluke that has coincided with his arrival. Even at Bayern he's gone trophyless and might still be for a few years judging on how great Alonso's Leverkusen are. He's seriously unfortunate but then again in all sports, a great story sells and he threw that away by leaving his boyhood club in search of easy success. Maybe winning some domestic silverware changes it maybe it doesn't who knows.
Best German players in the premier league of all time. (Day 657) I will not give up until the video is made or Alfie himself tells me to stop. Everyone else telling me that will be ignored. If you don't believe my number, just go back to the previous videos. I'm at the bottom most of the time, but I'm there.
problem is that it's too specific and niche to be of any real interest to that many. Alfie is not stupid, he is not going to create a video that doesn't really interest too many people. You are asking him to list a group of players from one high profile nation that were great, but you could do that yourself. Most of them would be too obvious to be interesting and create almost no discussion. I think you will have a long wait.
@@cowantomHe does if it's actually interesting lol...He did one of mine he couldn't resist, but probably didn't have the broadest appeal. Good ol' Alfie 😉👍🏻
The world cup top scorer was 3 pens two tap ins that anyone should've scored and a lucky deflection he knew nothing about..... sure a goal is a goal but most of them he got was a given he scored 1 goal since the group stage (a pen). I honestly think kane is a good striker he's definitely one of the best of this generation. But this generation of defenders just ain't as good as previous ones..... they are more about keeping ball and passing out than actually defending (not saying they can't defend but if you got back a few years like early 00-maybe mid 13 at latest then you'll see the drop off in quality of actual defending) while keeping the ball is a form of defending. It seems the big name defenders just ain't as good as what the previous generations have. Like surely you can see it in the sqauds name one England current defender (other than maybe Walker on the right for pace) you'd have now over Terry, Ferdinand, King, Campbell, Nevil, or Cole? (That's just a small selection of names) It's pretty much the same with all countries (with a couple exceptions) most of the big countries have defenders that wouldn't cut then. I would never say kane is one of the greatest of all time that's silly but he is one of the best of his generation.
Probably the most comprehensive take on Kane I've ever seen. The one I hate about tournaments is that the casuals come out to watch England and simply parrot bad opinions from semi-casuals and they spread like wildfire. Not that I want to gatekeep football, but the number of thick twats that come out is unbearable. I'm so happy you ran through the list of alternatives to Kane at those particular tournaments. I might be wrong here, but Kane might have more knockout goals than those players have England goals combined? If he doesn't I don't think there's an awful lot in it either. I don't see how Kane has become the scapegoat. We went into the tournament with the best 10 playing LW, our best 8 playing 10 (after a great season as a 10 in a system which didn't even have a striker), a RB in midfield and another RB at midfield. Even after changing things we still ended up with 2/3 of those issues all tournament. Any other nation would build a team around Kane, and that was perfectly viable here, but Southgate isn't tactically astute. Kane has never had an issue at club level. Why? He's never had a manager as average as Southgate (Sherwood aside). Funny how his only bad games ever come for England and there's an 8 year common denominator.
It's just the social media effect. People say dumb shit and others parrot it, and if others say it, it seems more believable. It's not a problem exclusive to football, far from it. But I do think there's plenty of football fans which are just... not the sharpest tools in the shed. Stereotypes exist for a reason.
He's not a generational talent. This word is thrown about too liberally it's lost all meaning. Messi, CR, R9, Zidane,Xavi,Iniesta'Ronaldinho can lay claim to that in the last 30 years. There are many one tier below that like Henry,Sneijder,Figo,Eto,Shevchenkoand many of the Italian players of 1994 to 2006 Vintage. Kane? You're taking the piss now.
I think there are various elements to this. a) a bit of a flat track bully WC 2018, 6 goals. Tunisia x2, Panama x3 (inc 2 pen), Colombia (pen) Euro 2020, 4 goals. Germany, Ukraine x2, Denmark (penalty rebound after having his pen saved). Yes, Germany, a goal from open play against a good team! WC 2022, 2 goals. Senegal, France (pen) Euro 2024, 3 goals. Slovakia, Denmark, Netherlands (pen) So its a lot of international goals, but at the top end he struggles against teams he cant dominate because lacks the pace and movement, and has made the numbers up by scoring a lot of penalties. And the question here is about international performances (which are a different style of match to club football), and how he performs there. England would qualify with any other striker up front, so its how he contributes in the finals. b) how England are asked to play. Ultimately Southgate selects the team and gives the instructions. Its not his fault if he is selected when not fit. Its also not his fault if hes not really given the supply to feed off that plays to his strengths....the wingers typically dont take on their full back when one-on-one, so it becomes a waste of trying to get into position to be ready for the cross that never comes ends up not making the move in the first place. c) who else? Its one thing to come on late in the match and make a difference because you are fresh vs starting and the defence being fresh and being able figure out how to defend against you. The premiership isnt blessed with many english no 9s, and the england team has been based around a no 9. But Euro 24? I put that on Southgate. But hes not one of those strikers defenders are terrified of, as he hasnt got the pace and thats what at the top level against organised oppositions breaks open defences. In club football that has typically been provided for him by other players to open play up and give him space, but England play so slowly until they go a goal down that he has no room and no way to create the room
HK is a true example of how statistics can be deceiving. He can win a game by himself against mid-table teams, but he is nowhere to be found when his team really needs a savior for a crucial game. I will always be grateful for this "great striker" missing a couple of dead changes against Croatia in 2018! This is his specialty! So thank you, Harry, without you, we would have never gone through the finals! :)
20:48 had to give the video a like when you said this because it's fucking spot on!! The hate and general underappreciation for Kane over the years has driven me crazy. I think in general a lot of football fans just get their opinions off what the general consensus is online rather than form their own. Social media also rewards more extreme takes without nuance which is why you get more ridiculous takes saying he's a fraud and should retire rather than just 'he had a bad tournament'. I think there's a lot of 'sports' fans who don't actually enjoy the sport they watch, rather the circus around it and the idea of winning arguments and 'agendas'. I've been an F1 fan my whole life and I've seen it happen with Drive To Survive, people becoming Norris/Leclerc/Hamilton fanboys/fangirls because of what they do away from the track rather than on it. It's the same with Kane. He's not a Bellingham/mbappe type marketable athlete for Real Madrid that's always on Social Media, and in this day and age that turns people against him.
A rare miss from Alfie here. Alf fails to put some context to Kane's numbers. Yes, Kane did score several goals for Bayern, but let's face it. Bayern's budget is so large compared to their rivals that its practically a given that Bayern will win before they step onto the pitch. This is not a knock on Kane, but it's just the truth. Bayern are a shark in a sea of relatively small fish, so while there are undoubtedly enormous pressures that come with playing for the biggest team in Germany, these pressures are somewhat mitigated by their budget and (caliber of) player advantages. In the video, Alf brought up Henry as a comparison but to be honest, Henry won things fairly consistently for Arsenal and helped France to the World Cup too, so by that measure, people are more willing to write off a bad tournament rather than the player himself. It must be said that Kane has also been fantastic in a Spurs team for most of his career, and even in big matches for that team. But, it also needs to be acknowledged that Spurs are rarely consistent enough to feature in the decisive, trophy-winning matches where most of the real pressure is for elite, professional footballers. Indeed. compared to rival teams (esp the likes of Man City) Spurs' "big games" are usually one off performances in an aimless season agaisnt big teams where the result matters more for their opponents than them. So, while Harry Kane turns up and scores by the bucket load in games against international minnows, and he also scores consistently throughout a (relatively) pressure-less season for Spurs... it remains to be seen if he can help his team get over the line in a decisive, trophy-winning moment. Ultimately, Harry is now in a team that is expected to win everything (and arguably, even at International level, where England were one of the faves, pre tournament) and it still remains to be seen if he can live up to the expectations that his new surroundings have placed on him.
He is dead weight. I hope the new England coach has the balls to look past him. He runs like he has a back pack full of rocks and is very lazy on the press.
I believe Harry Kane is only the second player after Gerd Muller to win the European Golden Shoe, Champions League/European Cup Top scorer, Top 5 division top scorer, World Cup Golden Boot and EUROs Golden Boot....and he has no trophies, it defies belief!
Harry Kane is what the majority of footballers used to be 50yrs ago. He spent a huge part of the prime of his career being loyal to his club, only for it to either not be very good, be incompetent, or be a bit of both. He was extremely unlucky to arrive at Bayern for their first poor season in a decade. But he'll win at least one trophy there this season. He'll be bloody lucky to win anything at England but that's not a knock on him, England winning a trophy is more a statistical anomaly than something that is likely. But he is a player who plays in an era where very good players quickly migrate to a top 4 team. They don't really grind it out. He holds himself extremely well, and I really hope the back-end of his career brings some trophies because he deserves them.
Calling Kane a system player is nuts. I've always thought his style of play is well rounded and very well suited to a variety of playstyles and systems.
Alfred, you should make a video about the Welsh premier league. look at the Welsh teams in the European qualifiers this summer, the new saints just beat the Montenegrin champions 4-1 on aggregate, my team (Caernarfon town fc) have just beat crusaders 8-7 on penalties last night, and will be facing legia warsaw in the next round. meanwhile Connah's quay nomads will be playing their second leg game against bravo Ljubljana tonight, it's currently 1-0 to Connah's quay on aggregate so it will be a tense game. the game will stream live on the sgorio UA-cam channel if anybody is interested.
I always stick up for players in bad situations if they're not bad people. When Maguire was getting clowned on nonstop and even being made fun of for tiny things like standing on the wrong side of the tunnel, I felt really bad for him, I thought the hate went too far, and I'm happy that he improved this season. Now with Kane, I'm feeling the same sympathy I felt for Maguire two years ago because he's scored over 400 goals with nothing to show for it, compared to many bench and reserve players who just randomly pick up trophies while being average (look at Scott Carson). I really hope he wins something next season to finally break his curse.
For all of Kane's goals, Bayern Munich only scored 2 more goals than the previous season. It's almost as if his performance comes at the expense of his teammates. Meanwhile Spurs scored more goals without him.
Last time I checked Bayern had a poor team last season and Postecoglou plays SLIGHTLY more attacking football than Conte, Nuno or Mourinho. To sum this up, I'm going to quote a top comment from the highlights of a Spurs game last season: "I just watched: 2 red cards 5 goals (2 of them being after the full 90) 5 disallowed goals about 10 missed sitters a total of 21 added minutes Tottenham playing a high line with 10 & 9 players multiple VAR decisions Jackson missing 5 chances but still scoring a hattrick then hitting the siuu This is the greatest game of all time for all the wrong reasons" Does that sound like something that could possibly ever have happened under any of the guys who managed Kane? How silly do you feel?
You clearly only been watching football for a few years. Rooney is a better all round player than kane. Kane can't play left wing, right wing or Cam. Rooney can play all over and score from all over . Go sleep please
No ways, being a CF is not just about goals, and Rooney proved that. So in their prime , an all star 11, if they were the only 2 CFs to choose from, you would still go Kane ? That's mental.
@@tylandtv8762 Obviously Rooney is still a great player his biggest problem he isn't just as consistent as someone like Kane. For example Kane scored 30 goals for Spurs in his last season and those goals were just the Premier league goals. Rooney played for a better Manchester United and only scored like 16 goals with assists ofc the most in one PL season. But point still stands Rooney like you said is a better Cam. I'd personally prefer a cf who can score goals as that is their main job
Look, he’s quality and always has been. Absolute goal scoring machine. But he NEEDS runners around him. Sterling, Ali, Musiala. He can’t do it on his own.
He had the poeple to do it, Sterling and Rashford. Both dropped and puts in other players that don't run in behind. Not sure i'd have preferred that side but as a manager thats on you
Great vid. Everyone is wise after the event. He was the top scorer for England and we made the final. At that point there is a fine line between victory and defeat. Yes, he was unlucky like the rest of the team. Spain were the brightest team in the tournament by miles and England gave them their toughest test. I know most fans in England would love him to win just something and hopefully that will come with Bayern next season.
lol just look how Kane will lead Bayern to become another Spurs and everyone be like “we would be worse off without him!” For your record, Spurs moved up 3 places after Kane left. Bayern will be losing every year he’s there if you treat him like a gem that’s not touchable.
He should've stayed in the Prem & just become the all-time top scorer! He would've cemented himself in history. Everything else would be forgotten 🤷🏻♂️
I disagree plenty of people don’t rate Shearer as the top striker because of his lack of trophies. I actually give him credit for being brave enough to go to a big club. Shearer had all those goals and nothing to show for it (other than one medal).
@@adamlennard1828 I hear that, but he is always mentioned. He won't be forgotten about anytime soon in the Premier league conversations. If Kane doesn't have ANYTHING to show for it... he will be forgotten 🤷🏻♂️
That's the thing about people defending Kane, there's always excuses. Why i'm so bitter towards the guy is that he tried to move from Spurs for at least 3-4 seasons, always made it about himself, and whenever he had the chance to win anything, he delivers the same non existent performance every single final. Another reason was the Champions League final, where he forced himself into the team when he wasn't fit, and he's done it all of this Euros tournament. Yes he's a good goalscorer and a great passer, but to push a team on to trophies, he's not that guy. It's not the Spurs in him. It's just him.
He wanted to move somewhere where he’d win trophies and spurs held him hostage for years sucking years of his life he could’ve gotten some success at a better team if he’d join city a few years ago when pep wanted him before haaland he’d be a treble winner now. His fault was being too loyal to a club that let him down repeatedly and not actively aggressively pushing for a transfer like other players have done.
And who would be the trophy winning monster that would have taken his place to create the winning mentality? Moura in Spurs? Calvert-Llewin in 21 and Toney in 24? Big game players with massive trophy cabinets those lmao
Another big point is just that people have never rated Kane throughout his career and have been desperate to maintain that opinion rather than reflect on the fact he's very good. From the very beginning when he was a one season wonder about 4 years running. Then he was just a penalty merchant, then he started dropping deep and wasn't a true number 9 and now he's just a flat track bully at Bayern. Narrative is just more important than truth online and I do think had he played for a more fashionable club than spurs with a ravid online fanbase he'd rightly be talked about as one the best England players of all time rather than a Heskey regen (with no disrespect to Heskey there who was also a good player)
I am just now realising, after many years. its HITC Sevens and not in fact HITC Stevens and your name is not Steven.
He does introduce himself as Alfie in almost every video and advertises his own channel with his name in it at the end of most videos so I don’t know how you’ve done that tbh 😂
@@sirsurnamethefirstofhisnam7986 Maybe a double name Alfie Steven
@@sirsurnamethefirstofhisnam7986I can’t remember a single time where he’s introduced himself per se lol
He says HITC SEVENS in almost every video like holy hell man lock in
Wait for real? I can swear it used to be HITC Stevens...
Few years ago, the 'no trophy' memes were funny to see.. but now it's just sad that how much bad luck he has.. with his contribution as a striker, he deserves so many trophies...
Frr its getting depressing, How do you get no trophies with BAYERN MUNICH???
@@TherabbitthemyththelegendNot sure how that's his fault, leading the league in scoring
Nah, it's getting funnier
It's honestly insane. Like how does someone as a striker score so many goals but manage to not win anything.
He doesn't deserve anything
Apologize to Ciro Immobile. At least he won Euros
He did nothing in Italy’s euros run. Stop twisting the facts for laughs.
@@watman286quit making up bs you fraud
@@watman286 he scored a goal. Similar to Luca Toni in 2006. Remember Giroud in 2018. At the end of the day. The team’s got to win. That’s what matters
@@watman2864 G/A in 6 matches in euro 2021
@@watman286 stop lying and overestimating England/Kane. Immobile is clear of all of his haters, and further than Kane at this point 🤣
Kane and Bellingham should have been rested for the Slovenia game. The team looked leggy by the Denmark game.
It doesn't matter who you played in either match, you will forever be known as the BOTTLEJOB nation england....
@@leeadamson5504is it a bottlejob to play bad a whole tournament and reach a final? What does that mean for all the other European countries?
@@tm_yt496 I don't think our man understands the term " bottlejob "
@@jamesfrizzle6400 we only lost 2 1 to a team who were the best performing in the tournament
@@jamesfrizzle6400 real
Kane's curse is so strong, it ended one of the most dominant domestic streaks and killed Neverkusen just to keep going.
Im sure harry jane has scored multiple trophies.
Haha RIGHT??? Shit, Bayern wasn't even SECOND this year!
"Harry kane is going finally going to win trophies" *pops meme*
I’d be seriously worried if Bayern don’t win a single trophy this coming season
To add more insults, Bayern had the manager who somehow relegated Premier League team to the Championship team. The club obviously faced tremendous pressures when it comes to winning the silverware. Would be surprised if Bayern went trophyless again for the 24/25 season and even finished outside Top 4 of Bundesliga (and no UCL football for the next season after that). Even Bayern's own stadium, the Allianz Arena, will host the UCL Final, and the last time the UCL Final was held in this ground it was a nightmare for Bayern themselves.
@@ezraezra2928Kane scores a last minute goal vs Real Madrid to win it 4-3 at the Allianz Arena. Only can dream lol
Harry Kane's career by numbers:
643 games
406 goals
3x PL Golden Boot
1x PL Playmaker Award
1x UCL Golden Boot
1x World Cup Golden Boot
1x Torjägerkanone
1x European Golden Shoe
1x European Championship Golden Boot
Harry Kane has still not won a trophy for Tottenham, Bayern Munich and England.
The Kane curse is actually real! 😭😭😭
Me too! I feel bad for Kane 😢
You forgot legendary Audi and Tiger cup wins by Spurs
Huge disrespect for the International Champions Cup Presented By Guiness
Haven't just listed 9 trophies that he has won?
@@Sheathkingindividual trophies not club or international trophies
Yeah, that 2018 World Cup needs some context. Sure, he scored 6 goals. Half of them were pens. 5 of them were against Tunisia and Panama (the 6th was again a pen) in two group matches that definitely can't be considered big matches.
Not to mention one of his goals was a loftus cheek shot that just bounced off his back
Yeah I thought Alfie tried to change the conversation by talking about his club record in derbies but these are just games in a season usually with spurs not challenging the title. He might be a record European scorer in the knockout rounds but he has played far more games than Muller because the tournaments are larger and how many has he scored from the qf on. It would be one thing if England were a smaller side but they played the last euros at home for every game and this one were favourites
True.
Still think Foden deserves far more criticism following this euros than Kane does.
Far more disappointing imo
He was huge against The Netherlands, deserved a brace
@@wolfmauleryeah, the second he got put in his regular position he was very good
@@wolfmauler being good for 45 minutes in one game out of seven doesn’t make you immune from criticism
@@JHa4848winning loads of trophies does
@@prometheustv6558For a team with 115 charges does though.
Fans who think he was healthy or that player can rule himself out are dumb. This is 100% on Southgate. And in my opinion it was clear cut decision after it was obvious Kane wasnt fit enough to be as effective as he usually is. But Southgate is stubborn AF. As he was with Foden. Palmer shoud've replaced Foden as a starter.
Kane isn't a talisman; if he's not fit, on top of not fitting the system, disaster looms.
Scaloni was in a similar boat, but he quickly adjusted and dropped Lautaro for Alvarez during the WC and it worked wonders.
I honestly think English managers are just not on par with other top nations.
I mean, there is no guarantee the options of Watkins or Toney would have been better, I think you vastly underestimate how much better Kane is. The only real option would have been to play Bellingham in his more advanced Madrid role, but England doesn't really have the wingers to do that imo.
Southgate was ordered to start him by the FA they want blockbuster players not effective ones
@@1998Cebola I very much fail to see how it could have been any worse by starting Watkins or Toney, and why this was not an realistic option in your mind. They both had the prerequisites to provide the fundamentals (pressing, counter attacking, creating space with runs, etc) that Kane was so obviously lacking due to his physical condition. Starting Kane every game basically guaranteed that the team would be inadequate in all these areas until he was subbed out.
the Kane curse is now official canon
I think he is a great player and not to blame for euro 2024 defeat - that was on Southgate's poor coaching/tactics. That said, a reputation for cursed luck can take on a life of its own eventually
That's true
Southgate's mistake was starting Kane and playing him so much
@@thrilla72one of his mistakes. He made many. The team looked totally lost most of the time
He played awful the majority of the tournament. I'm not sure if he's hurt, tired, or just doesn't care. He stood around waiting for the ball, made 0 runs, and created virtually no opportunities for his teammates. Without fail every time Kane was subbed out, there was life in the English attack. If he was hurt they should have been subbing him out way sooner, or subbing him in at 70 minutes.
@@Redonepunch The team looked a lot better everytime Harry Kane came off, it was like watching Portugal with C.Ronaldo all over again
I think the fact that one of the first excuses to come from Southgate was that Kane wasn't fit and not up to match speed speaks volumes, to both Kanes' ability and Southgate's decision-making.
Did he say that?
What?
Kane's record in major finals and semi finals including both legs is 22 matches, just one non-penalty goal. Whether you want to believe it or not, he often fails to deliver what we know he's capable of in the biggest matches.
Having said that he's still an extraordinary player and has had some terrible luck when it comes to winning trophies, mostly due to the teams he's played in. I hope that one day he wins something
fr tho next level glazing from this channel that i didnt expect. the two most important games and he disappears in them. works for me tho cuz i dont want england to win shit lol
@@jvillanueva2978us non England fans can see it better, you wont ever see stats like that on English media😅 no hate though he's still an amazing player
@@murray_1410those stats have been on English media for years🤦do u think he’s only been called a bottler recently?
His record against Top 6 EPL & Top 30 ranked Fifa teams without penalties is at best average, it's about 1 in 4 games, but my fellow England fans ride him so hard that any criticism is simply not allowed. He's an above average player that beats up on average teams, he simply doesn't scare world class defenders as he won't run past them, he plays a style that is from 20 years ago when teams played 4-4-2. For Kane to be a trophy winning CF he needs a partner that will run past the defenders to open up space. This Euros people have finally started to catch up with just how much of a problem Kane is for England being successful, we looked completely different with Watkins on the field when he stretched the defensive line by running off their shoulder
@@jvillanueva2978I don't like HITC covering England and politically related topic. It's so obvious that he has too many biases. As a non-white man, it's so painful to hear him talk about political stuff. He also loves to insert political statements when the topic is England related. I rarely say this, but he should just stick to talking about football.
I must confess, I often fired up the Twitter during England's games at the Euros and, once I'd got past all the unsolicited tweets by Nigel Farage, his supporters and the OnlyFans bots, I came to the unavoidable conclusion that Gareth Southgate's replacement as England manager needs to be made up of a consortium of random men from Twitter.
Can we call them X Men please?
Probably make them play better then him
@@prometheustv6558 facts
Underrated comment
Tweets aren't unsolicited 🤣
Harry Kane is just the new version of Alan Shearer in terms of great stats but not an impressive trophy cabinet.
Agreed and awful on the eye, no pace or agility. The most frustrating type of number 9 every team needs but never wants.
Shearer won a PL with Blackburn, tho
@@Abbaschand I didn't say it was empty
He's footballs version of James Harden if you know who he is lol
The same people calling Southgate a idiot for playing Kane would have called him a idiot for not playing him
Likening pundits to day-traders is an elite analogy 👌
Harry Kane comes into every tournament knackered. Done.
even the champions league?
I've been thinking about that. Or how in CL, the final was his first appearance for us in the tournament, since the group stage. Gaffers have the mentality "if your best player is available, you pick him". Even if he's not match fit apparently
He came into the Bundesliga knackered?
@@Gallalad1no, that’s why he scored 44 in 45 games
Yeah Obviously
It's a shame. Harry was definitely recovering from some sort of injury. Was expecting a lot better from him. He didn't protest coming off at any point in the game, suggesting he knew it was for the best. Movement was so lethargic and painful to watch.
Of course it's easy to imagine what it would have been if others were given more of a chance, swapping out fast paced attackers and people who can hold the ball in the box and actually be in the box when a ball is delivered. The wasted potential of Gordon, Toney, Watkins (starting) and even Bowen (I'm a biased West Ham fan, but he has the strength to hold the ball on runs, gets on some low headers because he is short and can also cross it in nicely - the reason that West Ham were not in a relegation fight). Maybe stubbornness on Southgate's part? He was never one to make the difficult mid-match decisions. Too many options, not enough vision and bravery.
It’s was said that he had some kind of back problem in the UCL semi final second leg against Madrid. He was taken off for ECM. Maybe it’s true as back pain is difficult to compensate compared to leg or foot injuries
@@tatendamhuriro2735 yeh I remember watching that game and when he got taken off I knew it must have been bad. He was a talisman for Bayern last season. I watched a lot of Bundesliga (mainly for Leverkusen's Invincible run) but Harry was next level. Never seen someone dominate a league for goals and assists like that in their first season. I was excited for Euros because having him work at that level he did last season would have been a gift if he didn't have that injury. Also something that wasn't mentioned, Harry just doesn't work well with players like Bellingham, Saka and Foden around him. He likes the pace from the wings to push up ahead of him. Bayern had Musiala and Sane providing that for Kane. It's why so many people were screaming for Gordon to get a chance to run ahead and pass the ball back into the space where Kane was so he could take a shot while the defenders were too occupied with the other players running ahead. Just wish we could have seen that once. Maybe then it would have clicked for Southgate.
No he has been playing like this for years. He hid in midfield in 2021 and goes missing in big games. His style means that HE scores loads of goals but against difficult opponents, he is ineffective
@@thrilla72 but he scores regularly against big teams. Do you mean for the national team?
@@tatendamhuriro2735 I can definitely say for England he is missing against good teams. Don't know much about his club games
To be fair to Harry Kane. Not only is he struggling with club trophys, but also national team ones, that is unfair, if you compare him with someone like Zlatan, who had less of a chance of ever winning anything with Sweden. But England is half expected, although it's been MANY years since, to win either Euros or World Cup. But let's also be fair here. Tottenham would only always be considered an outsider and Bayern was just bad luck. Next season he'll win the Bundesliga and finally get a trophy he does deserve.
As a Tottenham Fan the club hasn’t always been as wealthy as other Premier League big 6 clubs and we lacked squad depth which what is needed if you want to win a trophy without sacrificing another competition
Wouldn't be that certain of a Bundesliga win, Leverkusen made it look easy last season and have not lost anyone and if anything have got better.
@@aryamanmani4025 Yeah everybody at the start of last season thought Bayern winning the league would be certain & then look what happened, so yes, I wouldn't be certain Bayern will win the league, I will just say they are favourites & should.
Bayern finishing third in the bundesliga despite having by far the biggest budget is unlucky??? They played 34 games over the course of a year and finished 18 points of the champions despite going out of the cup in the second round to a team in the third tier. That’s not even close. What’s unlucky about that? That’s shit. They were convincingly beat in every tournament they played in by teams with lesser budgets. Kane may be a good player but he does not win the big one and that’s more than coincidence at this point
No need to speculate as time will tell. I did have my concerns when he went to Germany and to see Bayern fall off the pace so far did surprise me. Looking forward to next season to see for sure.
I'm honestly annoyed at both Kane and Southgate. When it became apparent that Kane was not fully fit, he should have been benched. We were essentially playing down a man. As he proved with his two goals, you'd back him to score chances in the box. He should have been coming off the bench with 10-15 minutes to go, staying high and finishing off those chances. Given his injury, this should have been his role in the team.
Kane should have done the team thing and benched himself and Southgate should have been brave enough to do it. You'd think Kane would have learned from what happened when he started the Champions League final. He has cost his team's twice.
He was fully fit. He ran into defence all game every game.
Before the game, Kane said he would literally trade his entire career for this trophy win.
You have to think of it from his POV. Professional athletes have to possess an almost delusional level of self-belief and confidence in their abilities to be mentally strong enough to make it at the top. Esp for someone like Kane who was written off so many times with the lower league loan moves.
On top of that, Euro finals only come around every 4 years. This was possibly Kane's last Euros (at least as a starter)
Do you really think he's going to rule himself out of a start??
Blame Southgate's horror tactics.
@@stevendchu oh it’s no doubt it’s on Southgate mainly. But Kane didn’t contribute either. As captain and leader on the pitch, he deserves a lot of the blame.
perhaps you should throw your hat in for the vacant England job seeing as you know so much!
He was clearly injured and playing through it. He has never been quick but I also don't think that he can play to his strengths in this current England side. He always played with 'runners' along side him at both Spurs and Bayern. Even at the start of his England career he had Sterling and Rashford along side him which helped him a lot.
Should do a video about what is happening at Jeonbuk Hyundai Fc. Gone from one of the best teams in Korea to near the bottom of the league, quite likely to be relegated
No one cares
is that where the car brand come from?
@@ifan_1234yeah bro a football team made a car brand
Kane is the most natural goalscorer, England has had since Lineker. Lineker never won a league title - even in three years at Barcelona. He played for one season at Everton, a season sandwiched between two title winning seasons for the club. He never won a European Cup. He won an FA Cup with Spurs in 1991. And a European Cup Winners Cup with Barca in 1989. Obviously won nothing with England.
Are we saying Kane’s legacy will be tainted by the fact, he didn’t win a couple of poxy league cups at Spurs, or a Europa Conference League? Great players, do go entire careers without major silverware. It’s easier than you think. Even at Bayern, their trophy haul was going to come to a brief halt at some point. Kane just happened to be there, when this happened. It’s coincidence. Nothing more, nothing less. Besides, chances are Bayern will clean up next season. They take trophyless seasons, personally, there.
Kane has missed a lot of key chances that would have aided his team at the time (Bayern & England notably) to progress slightly to winning a trophy. He's not a big game player.
Yep. Gerrard of course never won a league with Liverpool but is generally regarded as one of England's greatest midfielders, & from what I've seen, in the Gerrard Lampard Scholes debate, generally comes out on top.
He won a champions league and fa cup pn his own.
Whereas Kane lost every final and was always the worst on the pitch in finals. He is just a choker, has great technical ability but just doesn't have the personality to win. @@r4h4al
@Ken_from_Mumbai just remember this nonsense when he actually does win stuff next season
@@0ceanaut been in ur place many years ago. After a point it's not coincidence anymore.
Anyway good luck Kane.
HITC mentioning Rants and Bants...
Im blessed to be in this timeline.
something in what Gareth Southgate said afterwards about 'missed a lot of minutes at the end of the season' makes me thing his rationale for playing him in the group stage was to give him time to shake of whatever was wrong. Problem was it self-evidently wasn't working (and if it was his back then it's hard to see how you shake that off) so the issue then was a lack of a Plan B. I actually think he could see what everyone else could see but avoided the very public 'can of worms' by dropping Kane - preferring to hope it all clicked at some later stage.
You forgot to also mention that Kane was completely unfit when he played in the champions League final with Spurs. He hadn't played for about 2 months. Lucas mora ( who scored a hatrick in the semi final ) was unfairly dropped in the final.
I still believe that we could have started both of them because they don't even play the same position. Poch messed up, but also that pen in the 1st minute killed them.
@@theweblenz6458Kane himself said I’m fit to play. Stop protecting him. Gosh.
@@theweblenz6458wherever Kane goes it’s the managers fault. Southgate, pochettino and Tuchel. Kane isn’t good enough to play against world class CB.
yeah, people rightfully called out Poch for it. It was a bad decision. the final wasn't even a contest partly because of it
@@theweblenz6458I think Kane as good a player as he was had to much power. His free kicks were extremely poor for Spurs, i think he only ever scored 1 goal from a deflected FK despite taking all of the attacking ones for many years. Dont get me wrong.. Kanes a terrific player but when something isnt right people need to call it out.
Kane's back injury reminds me of when Wayne Rooney was carrying an injury into the 2006 World Cup and didn’t tell Sven because he wanted to play at the World Cup.
He had been rushed back from a broken metatarsal to play in the World Cup so I imagine Eriksson must have had some idea that he was far from full fitness
Fun fact: the last time Tottenham won a trophy was in 2008. Kane signed for Tottenham in 2009.
Fun fact: England haven't won a trophy since 1966, not far off 30 years before Kane was born. Yet he gets blamed like no one else.
@@jmo4952 to be fair, the Kane curse is irrelevant when discussing England in my opinion. They've been the biggest bottle jobs in international football ever since 1966.
@@StelBoy2008 England might have won the Euro more recently, but it's for the women's team in 2022 (which was held at home soil). Yet they still lose the Women's World Cup Final to Spain, the same script that was eventually repeated in the men's side of Euro Final this year.
In fact, England senior team had only won the major tournament if they were the hosts. That should have been happened in Euro 2020 Final as well vs Italy at Wembley, but hell no, Kane and Southgate bottled it.
@@ezraezra2928 England is only good at winning trophies at England. Look at 2019 Cricket World Cup
@@EliasRoy Actually, the only time England had won the trophies in the foreign soil was the 2003 Rugby World Cup, when they beat Australia in the Final.
Other than that, they are simply nowhere to be found when it comes to sport events outside UK 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Kane was so injured during euros that he needed to dive in the early Dutch game 😅
The problem with Kane is the same problem Rooney had as he got older. At some point the defenders DON'T follow him because he spends pretty much all his time dropped deep and either can't or is too slow/exhausted to push forward into a dangerous position most of the time. Defenders will end up giving up the few times he does and then scores for all the times he doesn't so they can focus on the more higher up attackers.
To further insult on Harry Kane's luck, Bayern's current manager had just relegated Burnley back to the Championship this season. The club now faced tremendous pressures when it comes to winning the silverware, as Vincent Kompany's tactics seemingly unsuitable for this kind of historic European clubs.
Strangest appointment in football history imo. Relegating Burnley in your only Prem season with them, gets you hired to helm Bayern?? 😳
@@wolfmauler Probably yes. But sometimes, having an underrated coach doesn't meant the club will suffer heavily. Frank Rijkaard's reputation as an elite manager came after his disastrous reign with Sparta Rotterdam, where his club got relegated from Eredivisie at the time he was appointed as Barcelona manager. What followed up was simply the beginning of Barcelona's golden era, as the club won 2 La Liga titles and the Champions League title with the likes of Ronaldinho and Samuel Eto'o. Don't forget that he was also responsible for introducing the future GOAT Lionel Messi to the world football.
@@wolfmaulerkeep in mind he was Bayern's 7th option at best
Harry Kane has now got an impressive collection of silver medals 🥈
I’ve been waiting for this video to drop! 😢
His managers are not strong enough to rest him. But he doesn't manage to rise to the occasion in finals either. During the season he's twice the striker someone like Drogba was, but during finals he's barely a quarter of the player.
As a team England played bad during the euros but I don’t think you can blame just one player or Harry cane specifically.
I'm not a Kane fan but whenever one of my teams, be it club or country has a game against the team he's reppin', I KNOW it's going to be a tough game. The guy can score at will when he's fit which he obviously wasn't at Euro 2024. He is without a shadow of a doubt one of, if not England's greatest number 9.
So who out of the captain or the manager should have dropped him? Neither did so get rid of both
Lol no chance and not close
@@Goat-xw9ox Its funny how Wayne Rooney named him England's greatest striker and the likes of Shearer/Lineker rank him in the conversation and you say he's not close. I'm sure you know more than them...
My criticism of Kane is the same I had with Suárez in 2019. Don't play through an injury. Haters gonna hate either way. For his own good, and England's, Kane should've insisted to Southgate on his lack of fitness, so Watkins could be the starter, while Kane assumed a moral support role as captain, and perhaps a super sub to get in the last 10 minutes.
I swear if head not played Euro 2024 cause he wasn't 100% people especially Twitter experts would call him all kinds of names and make him a scapegoat once again...
He can't win.
@@salmansengul once you reach the level of fame Kane has, haters gonna hate no matter what you do. Not even winning a world cup will make them change their minds (look at Messi's case for instance). Better prioritize your health and fitness.
I mean at least Alan Shearer won the EPL title with Blackburn Rovers in 1995 even if his trophy cabinet was more empty than his talent suggested but surely there's very few players of Harry Kane's profile that ended their playing career completely trophyless
Socrates
He won trophies
I doubt Kane will finish trophyless, still only 31 who can probably play into his mid 30s given he’s always been the type of player who relies more on positional play rather than explosive speed running in behind, I’ll be staggered if he doesn’t win something big within the next 3-4 years
@@kiely4561 31 is old for a forward
@@1greenMitsinot anymore, especially not for someone like Kane who does not rely at all on speed.
I got about 7 minutes into this video but realised I just do not care enough nor really have an opinion on Harry Kane... "Sorry, We Need To Talk About Skirting Boards".
Same. I tuned out very quickly
Same, I started watching and then realised that I don't actually care about zogball.
While I agree with most of what you say, there is a strong case for Kane hindering a team; very much like Ronaldo or Messi do at their age: Ronaldo is toast, Argentina were better without Messi in 2024, and England cannot come to terms with Kane's style of playing.
On another note: what impressed me most about the Spanish team was that they could go all the way without Pedri, and even lose Rodri at half time in the final, but still play as a wonderful unit. I have followed football for a very long time, but cannot actively remember a team that survived after such losses. The most beloved Garrincha came to the rescue of Brazil in 1962, Geoff Hurst to England in 1966 and Paolo Rossi to Italy in 1982, but these are legends, the only one of which I witnesses in 1982.
The Dan Marino of the other football
Lack of fitness was a big issue, however, the system didn't help, he had no pace around him to link with, like he has previously whilst flourishing with sterling, rashford, and son. He had too many players around his area of the pitch such as foden and Bellingham.
There's a bunch of faceless guys with loads of trophies and not a single individual accolade the world has forgotten. No one will ever forget Harry Kane.
Except England and Tottenham fans, everyone will forget him.
Lad there are kids ALREADY who dont know Steven Gerrard ever played the game. Kane will go down as a bottle merchant. Whether it is his fault or not. If your name isnt engraved in silver you will be forgotten, hell even if it is sometimes you do.
@@Gallalad1 The majority of the time it is forgotten. Kane is one of the greats whether you like it or not.
@@rowancarreira2826 I’m not questioning his skill. Merely that the idea that nobody will forget him is absurd. Far better players have been and will be forgotten. That’s all
@@Gallalad1 I myself will never forget him :)
To be completely fair, Thierry Henry had to quite literally cheat for France to qualify for the 2010 World Cup.
It was not a foul on Kane. It was a bad call by the var and Saka made 2 hand balls before the dive by Kane and also before that the ball should have been given to the dutch but was given to England by the ref. He made 2 goals and was handed one.
Haven't you gotten that out of your system, posting it a dozen times already?
The handball is a legitimate complain but it was definitely a penalty challenge, claiming it was a "dive" is asylum level delusional
I don't think you understand what a dive is. It's very clear there's contact, that doesn't mean it's a penalty, but claiming it's a dive?
Dives are contactless or extreme exaggeration of minimal contact. Kane kicked into Dumfries' raised studs. That's going to hurt.
Do you have any idea how many crucial decisions have gone against England in major international tournaments? In ways MUCH worse than that. The one time it goes in our favour (in a debatable foul) and you can't stop banging on about it.
England played better than the Dutch. The one game we played decently and deserved to win. Get over it.
He is cursed more than Benfica
Bayer Leverkusen, as well. They had even broke its own "curse" this year with Xabi Alonso.
@@ezraezra2928well the Jane curse overpowered theirs 😅
@@Randomaccount9470 Jane 🤣🤣
a million likes. He speaks with a lisp, has slightly hunched shoulders and is not quick. These create the narrative.
Throw in some Tottenham tax too. People will scoff at the 'Tottenham top scorer' thing because they're not very intelligent. The man he beat is the top scorer in English top flight history FFS. Nevermind that Tottenham had one of the highest top scorer records in the country, I think maybe Liverpool and one other have a higher top scorer tally than Tottenham.
To cut it short, people just aren't very intelligent and they're not helped by the lack of intelligence and knowledge from pundits either.
@@LiamJM10 Spot on.
Seen way too many comments about how his goal record suddenly isn't impressive and was "against minnows in dead rubbers" simply because he (like the rest of England) had a mediocre tournament.
Never mind that he is a 3x Golden Boot winner in the Prem.
And he is white
Thank you. I’m an American, and I also couldn’t be accused of being the most die hard encyclopedic football fan, but I’ve always followed Bayern and I try to watch whatever games I can of any org…
I think you nailed it when you said it: the people saying some of this stuff simply don’t actually watch football or don’t understand/process it when they watch it. Just watching him play, at basically any stage, let you know that he has not washed up or even playing particularly poorly. Even the more subtle narrative that he is a choke artist or something like that simply doesn’t make any sense if you watch the games at all. Except for that one PK, you can’t point to any significant meltdowns that cost a team their campaign,. Hell even that PK is ‘just one of those things.’ Sometimes people miss a kick, that’s why the game is played.. if he was notorious for whiffing an empty net that be one thing, but he has consistently been excellent, and has frankly just had bad fortune from a combination of luck and occasional failure of a team, all that kind of stuff… There are a lot of amazing players whose legacy is a little tarnished because they don’t bring home the big ones. I mean for fuck sake, look at what people said about Messi because of World Cup failures before the end there.. Like I said, I’m an American and a borderline casual fan, so if I can see all this and make sense of it, it means that people making these claims are either unbelievably stupid or need to spend less time online regurgitating opinions they haven’t earned
"Yeah, obviously . . ."
Please. Spare us the 10,457th hand humour...
@@wolfmauler Not a Darren Farley fan then?
What does CLUB stats has to do with anything if a player is incapable of playing football when he wears the NATIONAL shirt???
The fact that Kane has so many individual trophies without a single team trophy is even more impressive. He's that good without a superclub behind him like most others.
Pretty sure England would have at least two Copa Americas without Kane
He has NEVER turned up in a game that mattered to win his team something, always shy's away in big matches
He’s spent his career for serial bottlers spurs and England two teams known for being psychologically weak in big competitions. How much if that is him personally and how much his teammates is debatable but playing most of your life for teams famous for choking doesn’t help.
In 2 of those finals (2019 and 2024) he hasn't been fit and shouldn't have started.
You must have a VERY narrow view on what game's "matter"
As said in the video, the most knock-out goals of any European player ever in international tournaments. Insane CL records. Insane records against all major clubs he faced with Spurs. If anything, he could be accused of not statpadding enough against weaker teams to get his numbers up.
England have only ever reached three finals. In the three successful semi finals, he's played in two of them and scored twice. The other was 30 years before he was even born.
You are the exact person this video is criticizing. Room temperature IQ.
Thank you for being a voice of reason in this Sea of Garbage called the internet.
This just further argues how stubborn and borderline pathetic Southgate's management is.
He had some of the best players sitting on the bench in a tournament where competition was very lackluster. Arguably, the game we expected to lose was always going to be Spain, yet we were almost eliminated on multiple occasions.
Gareth scapegoat and the worst fans in the world
I agree, it was odd for a manager of a team of this caliber to play a painkiller-ridden talisman while resting the EPL Playmaker of the Season on the bench. Southgate has made some of the most questionable decisions of this EURO.
@@hyywe240 I suppose you would prefer to celebrate mediocrity
@in4mus85 I've watched england for a long time, we have been far below mediocre. Semi final, final, quarter final, final is extraordinary. Best tournaments of my lifetime. Was tired of not qualifying or going out to Iceland or in the group stage. I guess you need to be old enough to have some perspective
@@hyywe240 England could have easily crashed out against Slovakia...
Would he still be a scapegoat?
In regards to the fitness/injury question, it frankly reflects terribly on Kane and the coaching staff if he was starting every single game IF his injury was so pronounced and clear
That's the best excuse they can give for his stinker of a tournament
Kane isn't the problem, Southgate not picking fast wingers was.
Didn’t fit our system. The problem was continuing with Jane when he wasn’t fit.
Your system? You mean, playing in your half of the pitch?
Incorrect. Kane isn’t fast and it affects the game stat drastically. The more important the game, the more this matters. This is why Kane is a serial loser.
Kane never arrived in the box. The wingers were far, far too quick for him. He's been driving me mad for years. He drops way to deep and I have been screaming pull him off (so to speak) since '21.
@@Stegibbon a forward who can’t get in behind the defense limits the option a team has greatly. Ollie would have changed things a lot and given the other 3 attacking players more space
Kane will always be one of the greatest players in Spurs and English history but unironically both entities are so similar in their lack of success at their respective competitions. He's been part of teams that have no doubt become emblematic in the history of respective institutions and its no fluke that has coincided with his arrival. Even at Bayern he's gone trophyless and might still be for a few years judging on how great Alonso's Leverkusen are. He's seriously unfortunate but then again in all sports, a great story sells and he threw that away by leaving his boyhood club in search of easy success. Maybe winning some domestic silverware changes it maybe it doesn't who knows.
WWF Kane > Harry Kane
WWF Kane has more titles
Yeah this is the issue, Harry Kane is just not cool at all or that likeable as footballers so people don't want him to be good.
💯
He will win something this year
You don't get it Alfie, he sucks because he hasn't won any major trophies. In a team sport. It makes perfect sense.
He is a spurs legend
Best German players in the premier league of all time. (Day 657)
I will not give up until the video is made or Alfie himself tells me to stop. Everyone else telling me that will be ignored.
If you don't believe my number, just go back to the previous videos. I'm at the bottom most of the time, but I'm there.
more power to u buddies help our brother
Klinsmann, Lehmann, Ballack, Mertesacker
problem is that it's too specific and niche to be of any real interest to that many. Alfie is not stupid, he is not going to create a video that doesn't really interest too many people. You are asking him to list a group of players from one high profile nation that were great, but you could do that yourself. Most of them would be too obvious to be interesting and create almost no discussion. I think you will have a long wait.
@@cowantomHe does if it's actually interesting lol...He did one of mine he couldn't resist, but probably didn't have the broadest appeal. Good ol' Alfie 😉👍🏻
Mine was 7 best players with at least one, but less than 7 caps 🤔...
The world cup top scorer was 3 pens two tap ins that anyone should've scored and a lucky deflection he knew nothing about..... sure a goal is a goal but most of them he got was a given he scored 1 goal since the group stage (a pen).
I honestly think kane is a good striker he's definitely one of the best of this generation. But this generation of defenders just ain't as good as previous ones..... they are more about keeping ball and passing out than actually defending (not saying they can't defend but if you got back a few years like early 00-maybe mid 13 at latest then you'll see the drop off in quality of actual defending) while keeping the ball is a form of defending. It seems the big name defenders just ain't as good as what the previous generations have. Like surely you can see it in the sqauds name one England current defender (other than maybe Walker on the right for pace) you'd have now over Terry, Ferdinand, King, Campbell, Nevil, or Cole? (That's just a small selection of names)
It's pretty much the same with all countries (with a couple exceptions) most of the big countries have defenders that wouldn't cut then.
I would never say kane is one of the greatest of all time that's silly but he is one of the best of his generation.
7 finals, 0 goals, 0 assists If you often see a person at a crime scene, he is the culprit.
There’s no curse no nothing. He’s just not good enough. His dropping deep is solely to hide his weaknesses, and they will be exploited in tight games.
Probably the most comprehensive take on Kane I've ever seen. The one I hate about tournaments is that the casuals come out to watch England and simply parrot bad opinions from semi-casuals and they spread like wildfire. Not that I want to gatekeep football, but the number of thick twats that come out is unbearable.
I'm so happy you ran through the list of alternatives to Kane at those particular tournaments. I might be wrong here, but Kane might have more knockout goals than those players have England goals combined? If he doesn't I don't think there's an awful lot in it either.
I don't see how Kane has become the scapegoat. We went into the tournament with the best 10 playing LW, our best 8 playing 10 (after a great season as a 10 in a system which didn't even have a striker), a RB in midfield and another RB at midfield. Even after changing things we still ended up with 2/3 of those issues all tournament.
Any other nation would build a team around Kane, and that was perfectly viable here, but Southgate isn't tactically astute. Kane has never had an issue at club level. Why? He's never had a manager as average as Southgate (Sherwood aside). Funny how his only bad games ever come for England and there's an 8 year common denominator.
It's just the social media effect. People say dumb shit and others parrot it, and if others say it, it seems more believable. It's not a problem exclusive to football, far from it. But I do think there's plenty of football fans which are just... not the sharpest tools in the shed. Stereotypes exist for a reason.
How dare you come at this argument with facts and sensible arguments.
Kane is a generational talent, he is, also and very unfortunately, the biggest jinx player in the history of football! Tottenham and England fan here!
England are the Tottenham of international football
@@1greenMitsithey are for sure, both bottlers
He's not a generational talent. This word is thrown about too liberally it's lost all meaning. Messi, CR, R9, Zidane,Xavi,Iniesta'Ronaldinho can lay claim to that in the last 30 years. There are many one tier below that like Henry,Sneijder,Figo,Eto,Shevchenkoand many of the Italian players of 1994 to 2006 Vintage. Kane? You're taking the piss now.
@@Bread_Garlichouse Most would disagree
I think there are various elements to this.
a) a bit of a flat track bully
WC 2018, 6 goals. Tunisia x2, Panama x3 (inc 2 pen), Colombia (pen)
Euro 2020, 4 goals. Germany, Ukraine x2, Denmark (penalty rebound after having his pen saved). Yes, Germany, a goal from open play against a good team!
WC 2022, 2 goals. Senegal, France (pen)
Euro 2024, 3 goals. Slovakia, Denmark, Netherlands (pen)
So its a lot of international goals, but at the top end he struggles against teams he cant dominate because lacks the pace and movement, and has made the numbers up by scoring a lot of penalties. And the question here is about international performances (which are a different style of match to club football), and how he performs there. England would qualify with any other striker up front, so its how he contributes in the finals.
b) how England are asked to play.
Ultimately Southgate selects the team and gives the instructions. Its not his fault if he is selected when not fit. Its also not his fault if hes not really given the supply to feed off that plays to his strengths....the wingers typically dont take on their full back when one-on-one, so it becomes a waste of trying to get into position to be ready for the cross that never comes ends up not making the move in the first place.
c) who else?
Its one thing to come on late in the match and make a difference because you are fresh vs starting and the defence being fresh and being able figure out how to defend against you. The premiership isnt blessed with many english no 9s, and the england team has been based around a no 9.
But Euro 24? I put that on Southgate. But hes not one of those strikers defenders are terrified of, as he hasnt got the pace and thats what at the top level against organised oppositions breaks open defences. In club football that has typically been provided for him by other players to open play up and give him space, but England play so slowly until they go a goal down that he has no room and no way to create the room
Not just the pens but in those games, like Denmark, Netherlands and Colombia, he did very little else. Nothing at all in either final.
HK is a true example of how statistics can be deceiving. He can win a game by himself against mid-table teams, but he is nowhere to be found when his team really needs a savior for a crucial game.
I will always be grateful for this "great striker" missing a couple of dead changes against Croatia in 2018! This is his specialty!
So thank you, Harry, without you, we would have never gone through the finals! :)
Bayern would. In fact they did. Many times.
20:48 had to give the video a like when you said this because it's fucking spot on!! The hate and general underappreciation for Kane over the years has driven me crazy.
I think in general a lot of football fans just get their opinions off what the general consensus is online rather than form their own. Social media also rewards more extreme takes without nuance which is why you get more ridiculous takes saying he's a fraud and should retire rather than just 'he had a bad tournament'.
I think there's a lot of 'sports' fans who don't actually enjoy the sport they watch, rather the circus around it and the idea of winning arguments and 'agendas'. I've been an F1 fan my whole life and I've seen it happen with Drive To Survive, people becoming Norris/Leclerc/Hamilton fanboys/fangirls because of what they do away from the track rather than on it.
It's the same with Kane. He's not a Bellingham/mbappe type marketable athlete for Real Madrid that's always on Social Media, and in this day and age that turns people against him.
A rare miss from Alfie here.
Alf fails to put some context to Kane's numbers. Yes, Kane did score several goals for Bayern, but let's face it. Bayern's budget is so large compared to their rivals that its practically a given that Bayern will win before they step onto the pitch. This is not a knock on Kane, but it's just the truth. Bayern are a shark in a sea of relatively small fish, so while there are undoubtedly enormous pressures that come with playing for the biggest team in Germany, these pressures are somewhat mitigated by their budget and (caliber of) player advantages.
In the video, Alf brought up Henry as a comparison but to be honest, Henry won things fairly consistently for Arsenal and helped France to the World Cup too, so by that measure, people are more willing to write off a bad tournament rather than the player himself.
It must be said that Kane has also been fantastic in a Spurs team for most of his career, and even in big matches for that team. But, it also needs to be acknowledged that Spurs are rarely consistent enough to feature in the decisive, trophy-winning matches where most of the real pressure is for elite, professional footballers. Indeed. compared to rival teams (esp the likes of Man City) Spurs' "big games" are usually one off performances in an aimless season agaisnt big teams where the result matters more for their opponents than them.
So, while Harry Kane turns up and scores by the bucket load in games against international minnows, and he also scores consistently throughout a (relatively) pressure-less season for Spurs... it remains to be seen if he can help his team get over the line in a decisive, trophy-winning moment.
Ultimately, Harry is now in a team that is expected to win everything (and arguably, even at International level, where England were one of the faves, pre tournament) and it still remains to be seen if he can live up to the expectations that his new surroundings have placed on him.
Finally. The moment we've all been waiting for. I know I'm extremely late to the party, but I called for this video a while back
Seeing Ron DeSantis as a Floridian pop up on a video about Harry Kane was a hell of a jumpscare. Uncalled for 😣
Harry being on the pitch, quite frankly, robbed England of a trophy. Sorry hazza I love you but Ollie showed us how it should have been done
He is dead weight. I hope the new England coach has the balls to look past him.
He runs like he has a back pack full of rocks and is very lazy on the press.
I believe Harry Kane is only the second player after Gerd Muller to win the European Golden Shoe, Champions League/European Cup Top scorer, Top 5 division top scorer, World Cup Golden Boot and EUROs Golden Boot....and he has no trophies, it defies belief!
He's cursed
Harry Kane is what the majority of footballers used to be 50yrs ago. He spent a huge part of the prime of his career being loyal to his club, only for it to either not be very good, be incompetent, or be a bit of both. He was extremely unlucky to arrive at Bayern for their first poor season in a decade. But he'll win at least one trophy there this season. He'll be bloody lucky to win anything at England but that's not a knock on him, England winning a trophy is more a statistical anomaly than something that is likely.
But he is a player who plays in an era where very good players quickly migrate to a top 4 team. They don't really grind it out. He holds himself extremely well, and I really hope the back-end of his career brings some trophies because he deserves them.
Calling Kane a system player is nuts. I've always thought his style of play is well rounded and very well suited to a variety of playstyles and systems.
Kane, Sane and Mane played together at Bayern Munich briefly.
Nope, mane was already gone ehen they signed kane
@@footballstats9127 Well that's my fact of the day squashed.
@@EdwardHinton-qs4ryyou had a good run for 18 minutes.
@@EdwardHinton-qs4ry😔
So we'll have to use the French pronounciation for Kane's name now? 😁
Alfred, you should make a video about the Welsh premier league. look at the Welsh teams in the European qualifiers this summer, the new saints just beat the Montenegrin champions 4-1 on aggregate, my team (Caernarfon town fc) have just beat crusaders 8-7 on penalties last night, and will be facing legia warsaw in the next round. meanwhile Connah's quay nomads will be playing their second leg game against bravo Ljubljana tonight, it's currently 1-0 to Connah's quay on aggregate so it will be a tense game. the game will stream live on the sgorio UA-cam channel if anybody is interested.
Your pronunciations are killing me. You called Cody Gakpo “Hackpo” and Joselu “Yoselu”
I always stick up for players in bad situations if they're not bad people. When Maguire was getting clowned on nonstop and even being made fun of for tiny things like standing on the wrong side of the tunnel, I felt really bad for him, I thought the hate went too far, and I'm happy that he improved this season.
Now with Kane, I'm feeling the same sympathy I felt for Maguire two years ago because he's scored over 400 goals with nothing to show for it, compared to many bench and reserve players who just randomly pick up trophies while being average (look at Scott Carson). I really hope he wins something next season to finally break his curse.
For all of Kane's goals, Bayern Munich only scored 2 more goals than the previous season. It's almost as if his performance comes at the expense of his teammates. Meanwhile Spurs scored more goals without him.
Last time I checked Bayern had a poor team last season and Postecoglou plays SLIGHTLY more attacking football than Conte, Nuno or Mourinho. To sum this up, I'm going to quote a top comment from the highlights of a Spurs game last season:
"I just watched:
2 red cards
5 goals (2 of them being after the full 90)
5 disallowed goals
about 10 missed sitters
a total of 21 added minutes
Tottenham playing a high line with 10 & 9 players
multiple VAR decisions
Jackson missing 5 chances but still scoring a hattrick then hitting the siuu
This is the greatest game of all time for all the wrong reasons"
Does that sound like something that could possibly ever have happened under any of the guys who managed Kane?
How silly do you feel?
Absolutely spot on. This one video makes more sense than every word said by every "expert" on tv or online since the tournament began.
Seeing Kane not win a trophy season after season is its own little reward 😊
Your life must be amazing.
Harry kane is a better cf than ROONEY
You clearly only been watching football for a few years. Rooney is a better all round player than kane. Kane can't play left wing, right wing or Cam. Rooney can play all over and score from all over . Go sleep please
He said Kane is a better cf. I agree on the cf part
No ways, being a CF is not just about goals, and Rooney proved that. So in their prime , an all star 11, if they were the only 2 CFs to choose from, you would still go Kane ? That's mental.
@@tylandtv8762rooney better player, kane better striker
@@tylandtv8762 Obviously Rooney is still a great player his biggest problem he isn't just as consistent as someone like Kane. For example Kane scored 30 goals for Spurs in his last season and those goals were just the Premier league goals. Rooney played for a better Manchester United and only scored like 16 goals with assists ofc the most in one PL season. But point still stands Rooney like you said is a better Cam. I'd personally prefer a cf who can score goals as that is their main job
Look, he’s quality and always has been. Absolute goal scoring machine. But he NEEDS runners around him. Sterling, Ali, Musiala. He can’t do it on his own.
He had the poeple to do it, Sterling and Rashford. Both dropped and puts in other players that don't run in behind. Not sure i'd have preferred that side but as a manager thats on you
England didn't really lose type video
Nah, it’s just about Harry Kane.
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Great vid. Everyone is wise after the event. He was the top scorer for England and we made the final. At that point there is a fine line between victory and defeat. Yes, he was unlucky like the rest of the team. Spain were the brightest team in the tournament by miles and England gave them their toughest test. I know most fans in England would love him to win just something and hopefully that will come with Bayern next season.
As a Bayern fan, who watched, literally every game, Kane patched over all the cracks. Bayern would have finished 6th without him lol
lol just look how Kane will lead Bayern to become another Spurs and everyone be like “we would be worse off without him!” For your record, Spurs moved up 3 places after Kane left. Bayern will be losing every year he’s there if you treat him like a gem that’s not touchable.
@@ximengtang6731 keep wishing kid😂
Very special video Alfie, loved it, felt all your emotion
He should've stayed in the Prem & just become the all-time top scorer! He would've cemented himself in history. Everything else would be forgotten 🤷🏻♂️
I disagree plenty of people don’t rate Shearer as the top striker because of his lack of trophies. I actually give him credit for being brave enough to go to a big club. Shearer had all those goals and nothing to show for it (other than one medal).
@@adamlennard1828 I hear that, but he is always mentioned. He won't be forgotten about anytime soon in the Premier league conversations.
If Kane doesn't have ANYTHING to show for it... he will be forgotten 🤷🏻♂️
I mean, he can still do it, if he comes back in 2-3 years...
@iori1303 I don't think he can, with the bit of pace he has lost, he'll drop deeper & deeper into the midfield I reckon 🤷🏻♂️
I always like to sit back and rrrelax to the videos. Always good stuff.
That's the thing about people defending Kane, there's always excuses. Why i'm so bitter towards the guy is that he tried to move from Spurs for at least 3-4 seasons, always made it about himself, and whenever he had the chance to win anything, he delivers the same non existent performance every single final.
Another reason was the Champions League final, where he forced himself into the team when he wasn't fit, and he's done it all of this Euros tournament.
Yes he's a good goalscorer and a great passer, but to push a team on to trophies, he's not that guy. It's not the Spurs in him. It's just him.
He wanted to move somewhere where he’d win trophies and spurs held him hostage for years sucking years of his life he could’ve gotten some success at a better team if he’d join city a few years ago when pep wanted him before haaland he’d be a treble winner now. His fault was being too loyal to a club that let him down repeatedly and not actively aggressively pushing for a transfer like other players have done.
And who would be the trophy winning monster that would have taken his place to create the winning mentality? Moura in Spurs? Calvert-Llewin in 21 and Toney in 24? Big game players with massive trophy cabinets those lmao
He’s being playing golf really well (publicly on UA-cam) for somebody with a “bad back”
Another big point is just that people have never rated Kane throughout his career and have been desperate to maintain that opinion rather than reflect on the fact he's very good. From the very beginning when he was a one season wonder about 4 years running. Then he was just a penalty merchant, then he started dropping deep and wasn't a true number 9 and now he's just a flat track bully at Bayern. Narrative is just more important than truth online and I do think had he played for a more fashionable club than spurs with a ravid online fanbase he'd rightly be talked about as one the best England players of all time rather than a Heskey regen (with no disrespect to Heskey there who was also a good player)