africanspurs
Justin Edinburgh
Nope, i dont think you appreciate what i am saying or maybe you do and just focused on a seperate point (or maybe i just missed how you refered to it LOL). irrespective of what is happening with the rest of the team...my issue is what is the player himself doing. When things were not falling for kane you could argue that maybe he wasnt showing for the ball in certain situations etc but one thing you couldnt debate is that he was actually looking to get his goals just by positioning.....and where he actually was when something either was coming to him or when we were building a possesion. this is why pretty much every pundit had the same thing to say about his situation "the goals just arent coming right now but they will...he is just in a rut" etc etc that sort of thing. If he was completely out of the game with nothing at all going for him then it would be that he had a bad game.....and even when he wasnt scoring he was doing other things as well...and the things he was doing were still more direct with a positive motive from what i remember
i am glad you asked that question about his head dropping, burnley game aside i can flat out say yes that in some games when his touches were heavy and his bread and butter "hold the ball up and play to safety" weren't coming off his head decidedly dropped, he will chase back but regret and acknowledging the moment of poor touch was has been there to see, even worse ..i think the ultimate low for me was a game this season where he chased the ball down a channel ..had nothing in front of him but two spurs players and still managed to lose the ball from a challenge that he didnt even need to have been involved in ...straight away you see trippier and sissoko in that game raise their hands and in clear body language "what the fudge was that??!! what are you doing??!!" props to him that his head didnt drop during that occasion he just chased back. for me that was the lowest point.....when your team mates react in a negative way in unison.
as for reading his mind on moving away in the summer? i cant do that..i do wish i was xavier it would get me far but i haven't got that gift but just cause i cant read his mind on those things doesnt confirm that he has done more than many others would have. I doubt you can read his mind as well, who knows he might actually be thinking it. especially if we are after dembele from celtic
i never said he has settled. he probably has i dont know.....i just said that his performances are mediocre and not "good", i am saying he can do more to be more aggressive in getting to his spots to actually get goals. as for settling in..maybe he needs more time maybe he doesnt but you seem convinced that he ISNT settled. how will any of us know when he is settled? the only thing we can actually critique on is what he is actually doing. he is the bench player right now..not the starter..he should expect not to get that many minutes but the onus is on him to wrangle more minutes through performances. if you dont perform you dont get minutes...you dont keep forcing minutes and rewarding bad performances just so you can get the performances up at the greater risk of bad results..at least i dont think so.....maybe Poch sees the bigger picture and is willing to do that. Mine is very much a short term view on what he is doing right this moment and what he is doing is building himself steadily into the team / game / league while fighting a "lack of swag" / confidence issue.
