There is no question that Harry Kane has profited individually from his transfer to Bayern Munich. Even though Bayern were upended by a historic Bayer Leverkusen side in the 2023/24 season, the former Tottenham Hotspur striker finally captured major silverware in the 2024/25 season by winning the Bundesliga. But so did Spurs, winning their first Europa League title in 41 years without him.
Kane has been off to a torrid start in the Bundesliga again in 2025/26, and the record-breaking English striker in the German top flight has five goals and three assists in three Bundesliga appearances with an insane 3.3 key passes per game and 4.0 combined dribbles completed and fouls drawn per match.
The all-around quality Kane has provided Bayern has made their fanbase already forget the memory of the legendary Robert Lewandowski, and yet the ex-Spurs superstar has still got his from a goal-scoring perspective. And he added two more against Chelsea in the Champions League, scoring a well-taken penalty and bagging his second after Chelsea assisted him the ball after clumsily falling for another Bayern press.
Despite Kane's individual success with Bayern and his goals against Chelsea, there was one thought that kept bouncing around in my head. There are rumors in Germany, via Raphael Honigstein, that it is an open secret that Kane is expected to leave Bayern this summer, one year before his contract runs out so that the Bavarians can get a profit.
Tottenham is the best place for Harry Kane
The 32-year-old Kane's most logical landing spot is Tottenham, and ever since this information from Honigstein surfaced, Spurs supporters have been clamoring for Kane's return. There has never been any hard feelings for Kane leaving to Bayern - only understanding for the star striker bailing ship after Spurs had failed him year after year. He was incredible in his last season for Spurs all-around, with that brilliance wasted by incompetence as Spurs missed out on European football entirely.
Watching Kane run the show at Bayern, you can't help but wonder if he'd be even more appreciated at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. The way Bayern play, Kane has to do so much dropping off deep and splitting wide, starting and running counterattacks. And he still scores a great volume of goals with how Bayern play, but the team isn't as built around him after the signing of Luis Diaz.
That's because Diaz, Serge Gnabry, and Michael Olise take a high volume of shots. Jamal Musiala and other young playmakers will be getting more minutes as the season goes on, too, as Musiala is out with an injury he suffered in the Club World Cup. Kane's goals against Chelsea were a penalty and an assist from Chelsea, rather than assists from his Bayern teammates. And the one big one-two he had with Sacha Boey down the right side led to a wasted shot by Olise with 75 percent of the goal to aim at.
Basically, Kane wouldn't score or assist as much on Tottenham in the Premier League as at Bayern in the Bundesliga, but the tradeoff is more respect and appreciation. And with how Spurs are geared towards playing an all-around, team-based game under Thomas Frank with even more effective pressing than Bayern under Vincent Kompany, Kane will enjoy the new playing style a lot more than he did in his past with Spurs.
Harry Kane is Tottenham's missing piece to the Premier League title
Against Chelsea, Bayern's other forwards left chances on the table for Kane by taking bad shots from outside the box. Tottenham's players are more built around creating, including the other forwards like Dominic Solanke and Richarlison. The whole system is still, in a way, designed for someone like Kane to come in and be an all-around sriker and focal point of the team - a dual point and shooting guard, the LeBron James of Spurs, if you will.
Kane is in the final years of his career at 32, on paper, but he's showing no signs of slowing down. And that twilight could be best spent back at Spurs after getting a taste of glory at Bayern, then elevating Spurs to the level of Premier League and/or Champions League winners. It's a fanciful idea, but it's the kind of ambitious dreaming that maybe Spurs should try to embark on in order to break through as a true European power.
The best striker in the world, Kane felt like he was being sold short despite his brace because of the high-volume shooting and the unwillingness of some of the Bayern players to find him. Tottenham are a different team now with the personnel, playing style, and manager to give Kane what he was missing a few years ago when he decided to leave. And honestly, the more success he achieves with Bayern, the more likely Kane is to feel satisfied and to go for that dream homecoming Spurs fans are still holding out hope for. So for Spurs fans, rooting for more Bayern wins in the Champions League- as long as they are not at Tottenham's expense - is in order.