Harry Kane, the all-time goalscorer of the English national team, is moving to the mighty German club Bayern Munich.
Harry Kane has passed the Bundesliga club Bayern Munich’s medical examination and signed a contract with the club. The club announced its new player on Saturday.
The 30-year-old Kane is moving to Germany from his parent club Tottenham on a four-year contract worth around 100 million euros.
Kane may play for his new club as early as today, when Bundesliga champions Bayern face Leipzig in the Supercup final.
This is how Harry Kane’s move away from Tottenham progressed during 2023 According to the BBC.
March 2023: Manchester United’s head coach Erik ten Hag is said to be pursuing Kane as the new number one striker in the summer transfer window.
June 5, 2023: Real Madrid are interested in signing Kane.
June 15, 2023: United pulls out because Tottenham demand too big a sum and the talks are not Tottenham’s chairman Daniel Levy proceed with
June 27, 2023: Bayern are making a £70m bid for Kane, but Tottenham are said to be rejecting all potential bids.
June 28, 2023: Bayern make a higher bid for Kane, but Tottenham reject that too.
July 14, 2023: Confirmation that Kane will take part in Tottenham’s training tour of Australia and the Far East.
August 5, 2023: Bayern tell Tottenham they want a decision by the end of the day on whether they are ready to sell Kane.
August 7, 2023: Tottenham reject Bayern’s latest bid. Bayern announce that they will move on to pursue other possible transfer targets.
August 10, 2023: Bayern and Tottenham agree on a deal of 100 million euros, in which case the ball will pass to Kane. Does the paint stick want to go?
August 11, 2023: Kane receives permission from Tottenham to fly to Germany for a medical examination.
August 12, 2023: Kane’s transfer to Bayern was confirmed.
The Kane show ran throughout the summer
Harry Kane’s move away from Tottenham was one of the hottest topics in the transfer market throughout the summer. Like Urheilu’s football expert Miika Nuutinen pointed out, the “Kane show” has seemed to run every summer.
– Harry Kane deserves every title he gets. Last season he played an absolutely wild 30-goal season, although he missed a bit Erling Haaland’s into the shade. Kane was certainly the single most important player for his team in the entire Premier League, Nuutinen stated.
Without Kane, Tottenham’s season would have become an even more total pancake. Tottenham finished eighth in the Premier League last season, which was the weakest performance since the 2008-09 season.
Kane’s contract with Tottenham would have had one more year left. Kane could have left for free next summer. As the extension contract negotiations failed to move forward, Tottenham was ready to consider trading its talisman.
Kane is the all-time leading scorer for the England men’s national football team and Tottenham. In the history of the Premier League, he has scored 213 goals, only ahead Alan Shearer 260 with a hit. In total, Kane has scored 280 goals in 435 matches for Tottenham.
For example of The Athletic and the BBC according to this summer, Tottenham had rejected several offers from Bayern, most recently on Monday of this week.
Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy has rejected interest in Kane several times over the years. For example, in 2021, Manchester City was after Kane.
Manchester United were also reported to have pursued Kane this summer. Levy has also said that he will not do business with either Manchester club. It seemed that Levy was not ready to trade Kane to Premier League rivals.
In the end, Bayern took the longer shot
During the summer’s training match tour, Kane was fully in Tottenham’s strength. According to Athletic, Kane said that he enjoys working with Tottenham’s new Greek-Australian head coach Ange Postecoglou with, as this favors a more attacking and active style of play than the previous Tottenham pilot Antonio Conte.
Postecoglou said that he “discussed openly” with Kane about a possible transfer.
At a press conference on Friday 11 August, Postecoglou stated that the club will continue without Kane. In Postecoglou’s opinion, Kane had already made his decision in June, when Postecoglou arrived at Tottenham.
– I talked to Harry on the very first day, and he was straightforward and honest, like me. After that first conversation, it seemed that Harry had decided that he was going to leave if only the clubs could come to an agreement.
Kane joined Tottenham when he was already 11 years old. However, he did not get to celebrate a major trophy at his parent club even once, even though he won the Premier League goal kingship three times. Instead, Bayern has celebrated its country’s championship for 11 years in a row and has also been successful on the Euro courts.
Earlier on Thursday, Athletic reported that Tottenham had accepted Bayern’s offer of one hundred million euros for Kane. According to Athletic, Bayern offered Kane a season salary of 29 million euros.
During the summer, Bayern actively hunted for a new number one striker. The other stars of the offensive end are Serge Gnabry, Leroy Sane, Kingsley Coman and conkari Thomas Müller. However, many of them prefer to play below the tip or on the wings. Experienced Bayern players can only be considered pure top players Erik Maxim Choupo-Motingia.
Bayern’s long-time attacking talisman, the Pole Robert Lewandowski moved to Barcelona in summer 2022.