Spurs must regret selling “world-class” phenomenon

The one thing you can be guaranteed of when watching Tottenham Hotspur is goals.

Ange postcoglou has created one of the most entertaining sides in Europe, let alone in England, and while those goals include the ones they conceded, the North Londoners still score more than they let in.

In fact, while their defensive numbers are mediocre at best, the Lilywhites are the joint second-top scorers in the Premier League despite being down in 12th.

Moreover, the goals come from all over the team, although a former player, who’s been compared to the incredible Alexander Isaacis currently outscoring some of their biggest stars.

Tottenham’s top scorers

Topping the list for Spurs is Brennan Johnson, who, despite enduring a slow start to the season and a recent injury problem, has managed to rack up a reasonable tally of 14 goals in 35 games.

That means the Welsh international puts the ball in the back of the net on average every 2.5 appearances.

Just behind the former Nottingham Forest ace is the North Londoners’ record signing, Dominic Solanke.

After going through his own slow start to the campaign, the £65m man has now scored 11 goals in 29 appearanceswhich comes out to one every 2.63 games, and with his return imminent, we expect that average to come down.

Coming in as the club’s joint-third top scorers so far are Deja’s Kulusevski, Son Heung-Min and James Maddisonwho all have ten goals to their names, reaching that figure in 42, 36 and 34 games, respectively.

While things haven’t gone their way this season, it’s impressive for five players to have reached double digits for goals when the likes of Arsenal, Liverpool and Manchester City have just one, three and two, respectively.

With that said, we imagine Spurs would love to have one of their old forwards back in the team this term, a forward who’s outscoring everyone in the squad and has been compared to Isak.

The former Spurs star compared to Isak

So, when it comes to former Spurs players who could be outscoring the entire club this season and winning comparisons to players like Isak, it could only be one man: Harry Kane.

The comparison itself stems from FBrefwhich looks at players in similar positions in Europe’s top five leagues, the Champions League and Europa League then creates a list of the ten most comparable players for each one, and in this instance, has concluded that the Swede is the second most similar forward to the Englishman.

The best way to see where this comparison has come from is to look at the underlying metrics in which the pair rank closely, including, but not limited to, non-penalty goals plus assists, goals per shot, expected assists, key passes, shot-creating actions, shots blocked, interceptions and more, all per 90.

On top of being incredibly similar to arguably the most exciting striker in the Premier League, the former Lilywhites ace has been in sensational goalscoring form this season – as he always is.

In just 33 appearances, totalling 2575 minutes, the “world-class” centre-forward, as dubbed by Harry Maguirehas scored 29 goals and provided ten assists – more than anyone in Postecoglou’s squad.

That means he’s averaging a goal every 1.13 games or a goal involvement every 66.02 minutes.

Ultimately, Spurs had to sell Kane in the summer of 2023but we can’t help but imagine how ridiculous his goal tally would be under a manager like Ange.