Sorry, We Need To Talk About Harry Kane 

I am just now realising, after many years. its HITC Sevens and not in fact HITC Stevens and your name is not Steven.

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...

Apologize to Ciro Immobile. At least he won Euros

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! 😭😭😭

Kane and Bellingham should have been rested for the Slovenia game. The team looked leggy by the Denmark game.

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.

"Harry kane is going finally going to win trophies" *pops meme*

Kane's curse is so strong, it ended one of the most dominant domestic streaks and killed Neverkusen just to keep going.

7 finals, 0 goals, 0 assists If you often see a person at a crime scene, he is the culprit.

I’d be seriously worried if Bayern don’t win a single trophy this coming season

Still think Foden deserves far more criticism following this euros than Kane does. Far more disappointing imo

Harry Kane is just the new version of Alan Shearer in terms of great stats but not an impressive trophy cabinet.

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

Harry Kane comes into every tournament knackered. Done.

Likening pundits to day-traders is an elite analogy 👌

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.

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.

Fun fact: the last time Tottenham won a trophy was in 2008. Kane signed for Tottenham in 2009.

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

The same people calling Southgate a idiot for playing Kane would have called him a idiot for not playing him

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.

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

He has NEVER turned up in a game that mattered to win his team something, always shy's away in big matches

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.

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.

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.

HITC mentioning Rants and Bants... Im blessed to be in this timeline.

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.

Kane was so injured during euros that he needed to dive in the early Dutch game 😅

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

He is cursed more than Benfica

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’ve been waiting for this video to drop! 😢

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.

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.

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".

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.

The Dan Marino of the other football

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.

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.

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.

a million likes. He speaks with a lisp, has slightly hunched shoulders and is not quick. These create the narrative.

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.

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.

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.

Harry Kane has now got an impressive collection of silver medals 🥈

Kane isn't the problem, Southgate not picking fast wingers was.

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.

"Yeah, obviously . . ."

Kane is pretty much a guaranteed goalscorer... IF you play to his strengths... BUT Southgate didn't. Kane has always needed runners around him, to get the best out of him. So, if he's injured, that is even more important. Southgate had Gordon the perfect player, in Gordon, to do just that. But he refused to use him for some bizarre reason.

WWF Kane > Harry Kane

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.

Seeing Kane not win a trophy season after season is its own little reward 😊

To be completely fair, Thierry Henry had to quite literally cheat for France to qualify for the 2010 World Cup.

Seeing Ron DeSantis as a Floridian pop up on a video about Harry Kane was a hell of a jumpscare. Uncalled for 😣

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.

Your pronunciations are killing me. You called Cody Gakpo “Hackpo” and Joselu “Yoselu”

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! :)

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.

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.

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.

You don't get it Alfie, he sucks because he hasn't won any major trophies. In a team sport. It makes perfect sense.

How dare you come at this argument with facts and sensible arguments.

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.

He's following the lead of his idol jermain defoe.

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!

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.

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.

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

Kane, Sane and Mane played together at Bayern Munich briefly.

What does CLUB stats has to do with anything if a player is incapable of playing football when he wears the NATIONAL shirt???

Harry kane is a better cf than ROONEY

England didn't really lose type video

As a Bayern fan, who watched, literally every game, Kane patched over all the cracks. Bayern would have finished 6th without him lol

Harry Kane PR team, HERE WE GO!

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 🤷🏻‍♂️

Kane may have been playing through injury, but I was still frustrated by his positioning. With England defending deep, you need a forward who is going to stand on the half way line, occupy two centre backs and compete for clearances. By dropping deep you add another defensive body, but you let another attacker come forward and ever clearance gets easily picked up by a decent defender. It can work in attack, but I don't think a deep lying forward, or flase 9, works well when you also have a number 10. Maybe better in a 433. Whether this was Southgate's tactical approach, or Kane's own decision, I'm not sure. However, he is still one of the top forwards in the world and I'm sure next season will see another 30+ goals and competing for trophies in Germany.

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.

My own view was that an injured Harry Kane in the Euro final against Spain specifically was not the best starting option, solely because Spain dominate possession and require pressing that Harry would not be able to deliver due to his mobility issues brought on by injury and slow speed. It is not a surprise that he was undropped because captains don't get dropped by managers in tournaments if they don't rock the boat. I don't think he is finished, just it was a bad match up for him. Perhaps finishing the game may have been better for him than starting. The reality is we will never be able to replay the final or reselect the xi. No TAA at right back. No Olie Watkins up front from the start, no Cole Palmer for Phil Foden. It happens that Spain played very well even though it was a close match, and England pushed as hard as they could to stay with them. They were first to almost every lose ball, not only won their duels but managed to pass out of contested lose balls with great accuracy to team mates, something that England only managed to knock on to space and lose posession. They were mentally and physically quicker. It was impressive.

He’s being playing golf really well (publicly on RU-vid) for somebody with a “bad back”

Him being injured does make sense but even then I felt he dropped back into midfield far too often to pick the ball up. No one can doubt the talent of Kane but I feel sometimes whether it’s a lack of trust in team mates to get the ball forward or wanting to be on the ball it’s frustrating watching him for England knowing how affective he is in and around the box and holding the ball up

The best way to deal with social media is to ignore it all. Nothing of worth is there. And nothing going on there actually matters.

they keeps saying he is englands all time top goal scorer, but look at the amount of qualifiers players now play compared to 20/30 years ago

You’re delusional if you think England would have performed better in the Euro’24 without Kane. England overachieved due to pure luck, it’s beyond me how anyone considered them the favourites.

Almost all the finals Kane played was against a better team at the time. Chance of winning was not good for his team. England in 58 years won nothing. It is not Kane's fault.

Hey Alfie. You should do a video on transfer windows and how online fans react to the lack of transfers for their clubs

I don’t think England losing the final match is due to one particular person. They were outplayed, Spain were fantastic all tournament. Harry Kane’s international career shouldn’t be minimized, nor should his passion or commitment to the England national team

Not even ⅓ the way through this video and you've very, very easily come back to any of the people at my work who don't watch football who've said things about Harry Kane being useless etc. My response has basically been "he's one of the best strikers in world football, that's ridiculous" without any actual stats. Great Euros videos all round Alfie👍🏻

He will win something this year

I was expecting a post-morterm on England's performance at this Euros, and so this video, while interesting, (and much needed really...Kane hasn't lived up to expectation somewhat)...was a bit of a letdown. Still, back to Kane, we really do need to talk about him. It's like this Euros, he was playing with weights on his legs or something.

Kane is the best English player I have ever seen. Case closed.

Argentina won Copa América in extra time Who scored Their striker Lautaro Martinez If Kane scored in any of his 5 finals He wouldn't be Trophyless

This shouldn't be a discussion. he has been unlucky with the managers he has played under. That have been stubborn in the way their team plays. Kane loves to drop deep. why we cant stick another forward like watkins along side him up top or use two wingers saka and gordon high and wide. He'll bag a trophy. and he'll be in the next world cup squad.