From open play. It's not discounting penalties, it's for fair comparison. From open play it's 17 vs 27, Sterling also won 2 penalties vs Kane 1.
Also yeah, who is better player is surely based on how they perform over the season?
Now you are saying it's not Kane's role to take on players because of the role but you are comparing the player whose role is to score goals to the wide forward whose role is completely different, and you are comparing them based on goals.
So Sterling scores more goals because of his teammates, Sterling creates most chances again because of his teammates. It's amazing how his season is played down so easily. We should do this for every City player.
Regarding the bold part, how does it matter? You already said Sterling scores and creates thanks to his teammates, so if he has one more good season obviously it's because of his teammates? I mean he will play with same players again.
Why are we discounting penalties? Can we discount Sterling's 1 million tap ins from 3 yards too?
And no, a player doesn't get reset after every season. It's perfectly possible for an inferior player to have a better season, especially when the better player suffers multiple injuries.
A wide forward in the modern game is meant to score goals, it's their job. Salah is another great example of this, they get in to just as many attacking positions as strikers do. Kane does far more donkey work than Sterling in terms of dropping back, holding the ball up and spraying it out wide (you don't get assists for this) as a striker, so actually often ends up spending less time in key attacking areas to get goals.
Yes, Sterling scores more goals because he plays in the most creative team in the world. Why is this a controversial opinion? He also gets more assists because he plays a different role to Kane where he's the one often playing the final pass, whereas Kane's creative role in the side is to pick the ball up and push the ball out wide a lot of the time. He's a fantastic passer of the ball but that doesn't always equate to assists.
I didn't say he only scores and creates because of his teammates, I said it boosts him as a player, which it does. Playing in a team which is a machine going forward is going to boost any player in the world statistically. He still has to earn the spot in that side and he does that because he is a brilliant player, otherwise he'd be replaced.
We have only one truly fair situation in which both players are under the same conditions: Their England performances. But people want to discount this because it doesn't suit the sterling>kane argument, and act like international performances don't count or some shit, despite being you know .. football the same as the club game.