This is the longest, drawn out, ridiculously complicated transfer in football history. Spurs and Daniel Levy have finally agreed a deal with Bayern Munich to bring Harry Kane to the German champions, yet now Kane must decide if he wants to go.
It would be really funny (and very annoying for Bayern fans) if Kane ends up rejecting Munich.
Tottenham Hotspurs and Daniel Levy have at long last released their greedy grasp on Harry Kane as they agreed to a deal with Bayern Munich to send the striker to the Bundesliga, but the entire deal now hinges on whether or not Kane wants to leave England and his beloved Spurs. And, even though I think it would be the only logical choice Kane can make, I’ve got a feeling this deal is a little too good to be true.
Now, before I get into Kane and his potential of leaving Spurs, let me just recap the potential transfer Tottenham and Bayern have agreed to. So, in exchange for the services of Harry Kane, Spurs record goal scorer with 280 goals and the Premier League’s 2nd highest goal scorer with 213 strikes, Bayern are paying a club-record transfer fee of €100M+.
Sure, the transfer is a little high given how Harry Kane is 30 years old and has an extensive injury history, yet Kane is easily one of the Top-5 strikers in the world and guarantees any team he plays for at least 24 goals/season. In fact, the last time Harry Kane failed to reach 24 goals/season was all the way back in the 2013-14 season…when Kane played just a single game as a blooming youngster.
That was 9 years ago!
Kane has scored 30+ goals in a season five times in his career (including last year with his 32 goals), he’s scored 20+ goals in the Premier League six times, he’s won the Premier League Golden Boot three times in his career (only Mohammed Salah has as many in the last 12 years), and he’s even racked up 48 assists along with his 280 goals.
Harry Kane is easily one of the most efficient goal scorers/contributors in modern football when you add in all of his goals for England and his other teams (aka: the ones he went to while on loan as a youngster) and see he has accumulated 402 goal contributions. That’s crazy for him only being 30-years old and in the prime of his career.
Thus, with Bayern coming off one of the worst seasons in the team’s modern history as they failed to win any domestic and continental trophies and only won the Bundesliga due to Dortmund’s incompetence, it makes perfect sense as to why they paid a club-record fee for a 30-year-old player with a significant injury history.
However, even though this deal works for both teams, I just don’t think it’s happening as Harry Kane has shown a STRANGE RELUCTANCE to leave Spurs in the past. I applaud him for being a loyal, one-club man in his last 13 years (10 as a first teamer) with Spurs, but that one-team loyalty can only happen if it goes both ways.
And Spurs have most definitely not been loyal to Harry Kane by bringing in out-of-touch or non-fitting managers, firing competent managers, or flat-out having Daniel Levy handcuff his own managers by refusing to buy and sell players in a timely, team-friendly manner. Kane should NOT be loyal to Tottenham with the last five years or so of unloyalty they have shown to him, but that’s just not how he’s wired.
Sure, he tried demanding a transfer out of Tottenham two offseasons ago to try and force a move to Man City, but that ended spectacularly as Kane was too loyal and dedicated to Tottenham to sit out and Daniel Levy was as ruthless and tactless as he has always been by not giving Kane his transfer.
And, even though Levy has now relented and agreed to sell Kane to Bayern, I just don’t know if the English striker will want to leave Spurs on the last year of his contract. I think he’s going to stay this final season and see where his market stands next offseason…and then end up back at Spurs anyways.
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