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Harry Kane loss is worst case scenario for Tottenham Hotspur

By Barrett Rouen

LONDON, ENGLAND - JANUARY 08: Harry Kane of Tottenham Hotspur celebrates after scoring his team's first goal with Dele Alli of Tottenham Hotspur during the Carabao Cup Semi-Final between Tottenham Hotspur and Chelsea at Wembley Stadium on January 8, 2019 in London, England. (Photo by Catherine Ivill/Getty Images)
LONDON, ENGLAND - JANUARY 08: Harry Kane of Tottenham Hotspur celebrates after scoring his team's first goal with Dele Alli of Tottenham Hotspur during the Carabao Cup Semi-Final between Tottenham Hotspur and Chelsea at Wembley Stadium on January 8, 2019 in London, England. (Photo by Catherine Ivill/Getty Images) /
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Tottenham lost a close game 1-0 to Manchester United at Wembley and things still only went from bad to worse.

Tottenham Hotspur lost to Manchester United, or David De Gea, it depends how you look at it at Wembley on Sunday evening and that is not even the worst part of it.  Stunning in fact that now falling 10 points behind league leaders Liverpool isn’t the worst part of it.  Essentially casting themselves out of a title race that they once looked like favorable outsiders in achieving isn’t even the worst part of it.  Allowing one of the worst Chelsea sides in recent memory to catch up to them isn’t even the worst part of it. What is it then?

Harry Kane was injured and early reports are that King Harry will be out for up to 2 months.  This is the absolute worst case scenario.  It is a proverbial atomic bomb in the hopes of Tottenham’s season at the complete worst time.  Literally nothing worse than this could possibly happen to the team.

There’s a chance now that they don’t even stay in the Champions League places.

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The positive news is that he won’t miss too many important matches.  Two matches against Chelsea, one of which is the Carabao cup, and the first leg of the Champions League tie against Dortmund are the big ones.  Other than that Spurs can theoretically find a way past Fulham, Crystal Palace, Leicester City, Watford, Newcastle and Burnley without Harry Kane.

The issue is though that it is often Harry Kane who carries this Tottenham side to the next level and through tough matches.  It is often Harry Kane who is the difference between mediocre and good.  This is where Daniel Levy’s refusal to fully invest in the squad will hurt him the most.  There is no real strong replacement for Harry Kane in the squad.  Fernando Llorente is an able bodied back-up and will likely be called upon to do a very good job in this scenario.  Then behind him Tottenham only have non-traditional forwards. The only good news to come out of Wembley was that the magic water they seem to give the children in the Spurs academy has also raised Oliver Skipp into a fantastic young English prospect.  At this point the FA and nation must acknowledge a certain debt to the Tottenham academy.

With Harry Kane out the thing that makes Tottenham special is missing and they will feel the pain of that in the coming months.  Through January and February is the exact wrong time to be missing your most important leader, player and goalscorer all at the same time.

This is very troubling and hopefully Daniel Levy finds a solution before January is over.

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