Austin is on form but I just don't think he is quite good enough, maybe deserves a run out as a 4th option like Lambert has been recently but I think he's too slow for international football. If we play two upfront it should be Kane and Sturridge but obviously I could understand Roy sticking with Rooney.
Austin is on form but I just don't think he is quite good enough, maybe deserves a run out as a 4th option like Lambert has been recently but I think he's too slow for international football. If we play two upfront it should be Kane and Sturridge but obviously I could understand Roy sticking with Rooney.
Rooney is a holding midfielder nowadays
Only insofar as 'holding midfielder' can mean literally anything these days. Got legs? Don't fit into the team elsewhere? Holding midfielder it is. Can he pass a bit? Stick him in holding midifield. Too slow to have any impact up the pitch? Holding midfield. Violent and that's it? Holding midfield. The fact that Rooney, Matic, Cazorla and Cattermole are all considered for the same position by their clubs is mind boggling
Austin is on form but I just don't think he is quite good enough, maybe deserves a run out as a 4th option like Lambert has been recently but I think he's too slow for international football. If we play two upfront it should be Kane and Sturridge but obviously I could understand Roy sticking with Rooney.
Rooney is a holding midfielder nowadays
Not in Roy's eyes he isn't.
And thank god for that. Hopefully we don't waste him the way united are at the moment.
To put his season into some sort of context, in Klinsmann's main season with us in '94-95, he scored 29 goals, Lineker scored 35 in '91-92. To think that Harry didn't actually start a PL game until his late deflected winner against Villa makes it even more unbelievable what he has achieved since.
To put his season into some sort of context, in Klinsmann's main season with us in '94-95, he scored 29 goals, Lineker scored 35 in '91-92. To think that Harry didn't actually start a PL game until his late deflected winner against Villa makes it even more unbelievable what he has achieved since.
None of those had the handicap of playing in the same side as Chadli either.
Very good player but not better than Shearer. Shearer was unplayable at his peak and did it for England too.
Very different players but Kane is on fire.
Shearer got 30 goals in 63 games for England. Kane is only just 24 and has 10 in 21.
Kane is not in Shearer's league in my opinion and very different players in different eras albeit I do rate Kane very highly.
Would be interesting to see comparative figures for competitive and tournament games rather than friendlies against pub sides that we always seem to storm through in qualification before bottling it when it comes to the main event.
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People will still want him to do it at International Level before he's better than Shearer though (i.e. see Wayne Rooney)
Very different players but Kane is on fire.
Would be interesting to see comparative figures for competitive and tournament games rather than friendlies against pub sides that we always seem to storm through in qualification before bottling it when it comes to the main event.