Harry Kane is a huge rarity going from where he was to where he did in such a quick time as in about 10 career goals at Dcls age now to 30+ the following season. The challenge for dcl is he doesn’t look a major threat with goals. He’s played quite a lot of games but I couldn’t say what kind of finisher he is, if he has a hard shot, decent shot with his left foot etc because he seems to barely have efforts on goal when he plays.
He has a lot of good attributes and must take instructions well for managers to use him as much as they have and trust him in unnatural positions to a job off the ball. So if he gets stronger and develops with the experience he will get he could become a useful forward even without goals like teams have from people like Okazaki. If he doesn’t develop and become a good focal point and and doesn’t add goals in he won’t make it at this level. But it’s just whether goal instincts can be developed, movement around the box or how good a finisher he is but that will come down to the level of coaching as well.
I’m in this sort of area with him.
I think compared to most youth strikers he looks to have a rounder game, and in terms of athleticism, touch and technical ability he looks potentially very good - the worry is he doesn’t look hungry for goals.
Not sure what Kane was like as a teenager, but I remember watching that u23 tournament and I wanted to pull my hair out because every time he had a sniff he would blast the ball as hard as he could. Wasn’t very wise but you could plainly see he could strike a ball very cleanly from a range of angles and positions, make an inch and put it in the vicinity of the bottom corner (much like Jermaine Defoe did for his whole career).
Don’t think I’ve ever seen dcl strike through a ball.
Strikes me as a training ground finisher. Take it round those two cones and bury it, you got it boss tip tap tip net. But when it comes to pure hunger for goals, lashing the cb and just twatting it - more likely to see niasse do that.
One massive, massive caveat - we’re one of the worst sides in the league for making chances, can’t eat if nobody’s cookin’.
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