Tottenham news as Harry Kane has opened up on his goals after moving to Bayern Munich and what Spurs couldn’t give him.
Harry Kane has acknowledged that he envied his international colleagues who were able to compete in the Champions League while Tottenham were excluded.
After almost a month since completing his transfer to Bayern Munich, the England captain has already focused on becoming a better player in big games. Kane responded, “I believe it will,” when asked if the pressure to succeed in Germany will advance him. “Whether I win or lose, the choice to join Bayern was made with those circumstances in mind.
With Bayern Munich sometimes we expect them to win because they have won [the Bundesliga title] for the last 11 or 12 years or whatever it has been.
But in my short period there is still a lot of pressure to win these trophies. We have not won the cup for a few years and we have not won the Champions League for a few years, so there is definitely a lot to gain and a lot of pressure to take. Time will tell, but at the moment I am enjoying that feeling.
Kane was brought in to help Bayern, who, while winning the league title last year, fell far short of their normal domination and haven’t found their best form under Thomas Tuchel.
Reaching the Champions League was frequently considered a triumph at Tottenham, but at Bayern, it is a given, and accomplishments are produced and documented with winners’ medals. Kane has never participated in the competition before, despite spending five seasons with Spurs.
In response to inquiries before England’s match against Ukraine on Saturday, he stated, “It’s clearly a different pressure than what I felt at Spurs. “Of course we wanted to win things at Spurs, but if you lost a few games, it wasn’t a disaster,” said the player.
The feeling at Bayern is that you have to win every game. We won the first two games 4-0 and 3-1 and there was still talk about not being too happy about the way we played. That’s part and parcel of being at one of the biggest clubs in the world.
“Of course, there is no hiding the fact it [silverware] is the one thing missing from my career at the moment and when you have got players in the [England] squad who have won things you want to be part of that as well and have those experiences as well,” Kane added.
“Just the experiences of having title runs and cup runs and hopefully a Champions League run will only add, hopefully, to handling pressure in certain situations. If we are going to win anything with England we are going to have to deal with that. Me, being captain, I want to put myself in that position as much as possible.”
Kane is likely to lead his country to his third major tournament next year when England enter Euro 2024 – as they will almost certainly do after a strong start to qualifying – and is pushing to go the extra step. Although his individual achievements have been matched by few in the world over the past 10 years and beyond, Kane’s lack of trophies has been a consistent stick to beat him with throughout his career.
At the age of 30, Kane has only qualified for the Champions League knockout stages three times but still boasts a record of 21 goals in 32 appearances. At Bayern, he is expected to take them to new heights and replace the goals of Robert Lewandowski, who led the German giants to glory in 2020.
It will be a new experience for the 30-year-old, but after Spurs once again failed to crack the top four, it was a move he felt he had to make. “As a competitor, when the boys are playing in the Champions League and I’m sitting at home watching, I’d be lying if I said there wasn’t a part of me that hurt,” he admitted.
