Online Reporter
ALL English eyes were on Harry Kane this week as he bagged a brace in Bayern Munich’s Champions League grudge match against Bundesliga rivals Bayer Leverkusen.
Xabi Alonso’s side were the latest ones to make Kane wait for that elusive first major title of his career when they ended Munich’s decade of domestic supremacy last term.
Kane’s double on Wednesday night inspired Bayern Munich to a 3-0 win in the Champions League last 16, putting them in good stead for advancing past their German counterparts in Europe’s elite competition.
But irrespective of what happens in next week’s second leg, there seems nothing that can prevent that German title medal going round his neck within a few weeks.
Bayern are eight points — effectively nine given their hugely better goal difference — clear of Leverkusen with ten games to play.
And their remaining opponents including six of the bottom eight and only Mainz and Leipzig in the top six.
It means Kane is on course to lay that bogey to rest — and think about the OTHER main club goal of his career.
That would be for him to overhaul Alan Shearer’s Prem record tally of 260 goals — and potentially set a mark that might NEVER be broken.
Kane scored 213 goals in 320 top flight games for Spurs before his £100m move to Bavaria in 2023, meaning he is just 47 goals behind Shearer’s tally – set in 441 appearances for Blackburn and Newcastle.
Despite his impressive stats at Bayern, with 57 goals in 58 Bundesliga appearances and 73 in 78 matches in all competitions, Kane is not universally popular, being questioned over his contribution outside the 18-yard box and in the “big” games.
Last month, claims that he might be available this summer if a club matched his £67m release clause were not denied.
That looked to open the door to a Prem return. So where could Kane, who turns 32 in July, go?
TOTTENHAM
A return to N17 would be the dream of Spurs fans — even if the club splashed out £65m to land Dominic Solanke from Bournemouth last summer.
Kane became Tottenham’s all-time record scorer in his final season at the Lane, ending on 280 goals from 435 games as he went past Jimmy Greaves’ mark.
ARSENAL
Unthinkable, surely.
Kane knows how Sol Campbell is remembered by Tottenham fans after he walked out on the club to join the Gunners in 2001 — and even if it was not a direct swap he would risk destroying his reputation.
But one of the most famous pictures of the young Kane was him wearing an Arsenal shirt and celebrating the “Invincibles” and their 2004 triumph — when the Prem was won at White Hart Lane.
CHELSEA
When Mauricio Pochettino was unveiled as Chelsea boss in 2023, the spectre of Kane following him into Stamford Bridge left many Spurs fans suffering nightmares.
Barely 18 months on and Pochettino is long gone. But Chelsea’s need for a totemic central striker who can also be a creator supreme has not gone away.
MANCHESTER UNITED
United wheeled out the big guns to try to lure Kane on at least two occasions in the past. Gary Neville’s infamous golf course video interview caused major issues at boardroom level in N17, with anger through the roof.
Both times, despite the opportunities, Kane refused the invitation – making it clear that he was committed to Tottenham first time round and then effectively choosing City on the next occasion. — Sun.
