You’d have thought that Harry Kane’s new Bayern Munich contract, which tied him down with the Bavarians until 2029 and made him one of European football’s top earners, would’ve quashed talk for just a little while regarding the striker's long-term plans.
Kane took Tottenham Hotspur as far as he could during his record-breaking spell in North London. Forever “one of our own”, the academy graduate ascended to heights that so very few projected when he was trying to make the grade at the highest level.
It was Kane’s underappreciated genius and telepathy with Son Heung-min that kept the club afloat amid a post-Mauricio Pochettino identity crisis, having gloriously emerged during the Argentine’s tenure. Life after Kane has been morbid for the most part, almost culminating in relegation last season.
While the striker would've loved to have been a part of Bilbao and soak up the subsequent jubilation, the Bavarian landscape has treated our record goalscorer kindly. So much so that the Premier League return he initially believed to be inevitable when he first left for Germany continues to be put off.
Now, you wonder if Kane really has any desire to complete his work on home soil.
Kane to Tottenham dream is one for a time far, far away
Ultimately, it took a move to one of Europe’s supergiants for the footballing world to grasp the extent of Kane’s brilliance. We tried to tell everyone just how good he was, yet constantly found ourselves belittled or undermined.
And although it has simmered, there’s still an odd refusal to accept Kane’s brilliance. Amid the campaigning and Kane’s deserved Ballon d’Or capture last month, the striker was beaten with an all-too-familiar stick. “He never shows up in big games!” they say, while picking and choosing the matches worthy of being classified as ‘big’.
Kane was the best player on the planet last season, and as his contract extension suggests, has no intention on changing environments anytime soon. There are plenty of individual accolades that do not define careers, but a Ballon d’Or does. Kane has joined an esteemed class, thrusting his legacy into a realm that allows him to sit at the same table of the finest sharp-shooters the sport has seen.
Our Harry Kane, eh?
Anyway, I’ve gone off piste. The Premier League return...
Well, he was asked for the millionth time, on this occasion by talkSPORT’s Andy Goldstein, about the possibility, to which the 33-year-old responded: "I'll be honest, I am really not sure.
"When I think about coming back, it isn't just about the record [top goalscorer in the competition's history]; there are things I haven't achieved yet," he added.
Kane recognised that the switch to Bayern has ensured that people are “appreciating my game more” and said only the “perfect situation” would tempt him back. Surely Spurs would be his priority, but when pressed by Goldstein about whether he could return and join a different club, Kane, after shaking his head, replied: "Who knows, I can't tell you. Time will tell."
And it’s going to be a long time until that bridge needs to be crossed again. Perhaps AI would’ve subjugated us all by then anyway.
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