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#3 No backup for Harry Kane
Harry Kane has been one of the most lethal centre-forwards in Europe over the last four years, scoring 105 league goals in just 139 matches since the start of the 2014/2015 season, and was back to back EPL Golden Boot winner in 2016 and 2017.
In 2017, he broke Alan Shearer's 22-year record (36 goals scored in 1995) of most EPL goals scored in a calendar year (39), en-route outscoring everyone in Europe that year including Messi and Ronaldo with a total goal count of 56 in just 52 matches in all competitions (making him the only player in Europe's top five leagues to have a goal ratio of over a goal per game that year). Tottenham has expectedly benefitted from his goalscoring exploits, as his goals have been instrumental in all the gains made by Tottenham in recent seasons.
Harry Kane is the chief goal threat of Tottenham, and unsurprisingly scores most of their goals. In his first Golden Boot winning season, Kane scored 25 of Tottenham's 69 EPL goals or a 36% ratio, that figure to increased 40% last season (30 of 73 goals scored).
Though most major clubs have a marquee first team striker who discharges his duties exceptionally well by scoring goals (Lewandowski at Bayern, Aguero at Man City, Suarez at Barcelona etc), and a lot of other clubs would love to be in this situation (Chelsea with Morata for example), it is an even better proposition to have a backup source of goals in the event of a loss of form or injury to the top striker.
While Heung-Son Min and to a lesser extent Dele Alli have contributed in their own small way with crucial goals, they are neither out and out strikers nor consistent enough with goalscoring to be considered as an effective backup to Harry Kane.
Tottenham's recent investments in the striking department have largely proved to be colossal wastes of money, as Roberto Soldado, Victor Jansen and Fernando Llorente have all failed to deliver and this over-reliance on Harry Kane could cost Tottenham in its quest to retain its top four status.
