The chairman of Tottenham, Daniel Levy, who was aware that Kane's current contract would expire in 2024 and that he would be free to leave at that time, had been pushing for a larger transfer fee during the ongoing discussions between the two clubs, which had been going on for several weeks.
In recent days, Bayern is said to have filed their final offer for the 30-year-old striker, marking the first time that they have crossed the 100-million-euro threshold in their offer. The agreement between the two teams was first revealed by The Athletic, and subsequent coverage came from Sky Sports as well as a number of other British and German media agencies.
According to the rumors, Kane needs to make a decision on whether or not he wants to depart. It was reported that the striker had pushed for the negotiations to be ended before Tottenham's Premier League start on Sunday. The top-selling German tabloid Bild featured a banner that read, "Kane is coming!"
The tone in British media, on the other hand, was more pessimistic; for example, The Sun stated that Spurs fans had "gone into meltdown" and were "heartbroken" by the loss.
The six-time winners of the European Championship, Bayern Munich, have a history of being less willing to spend large sums of money on transfer fees than many of their competitors in Europe.
The rumored sum of more than 100 million euros is significantly higher than their previous club record transfer expenditure of 80 million euros, which was paid in 2019 for the French defender Lucas Hernandez. A transfer fee of 45 million euros was paid for Hernandez's departure from Bayern Munich to Paris Saint-Germain earlier this year.
Since the transfer of star forward Robert Lewandowski to Barcelona at the conclusion of the 2021-22 season, Bayern has been looking for a striker to fill the void left by Lewandowski. While playing for Bayern Munich, the Polish forward scored 344 goals in 375 matches, helping the team win the Bundesliga title in each of his eight seasons there.
During the previous season, Lewandowski's absence caused significant difficulties for the Bavarians. Lewandowski scored an average of 30 goals per season throughout his time in Munich, which lasted for eight years. In the 2022–2023 season, not a single player for Bayern scored 15 goals in the league.
They were eliminated from the quarterfinals of the Champions League by Manchester City, who went on to win the tournament, and they won the Bundesliga title on goal difference after Borussia Dortmund capitulated on the final day of the season.
Over the course of the past nine Premier League campaigns, Kane has won the golden boot on three separate occasions and finished with more than 20 league goals in six of those campaigns.
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Kane scored 30 goals in the league during the 2022-23 season, which was equal to his career high and despite the fact that he finished second in the scoring statistics in the Premier League to Erling Haaland (36).
Kane, who holds the record for most goals scored for England, was a crucial figure in the transformation of his country from an international also-ran to a perennial title challenger in the most important tournaments.
In 2009, he became a member of the youth academy at Tottenham, although in the beginning of his career, many people were skeptical that he would ever be successful at the highest level.
Mauricio Pochettino, who was just beginning his successful tenure as the manager of Tottenham at the time, had enough faith in Harry Kane's talent to play him on a regular basis during the 2014–15 campaign.
Pochettino took a risk by playing Kane, and Kane immediately returned that risk with a flurry of goals that brought him international prominence. His meteoric rise to fame began during the 2018 World Cup in Russia, where he captained England and guided them to the semifinals of the tournament for the first time in 28 years. It was there that he became a global superstar.
However, there are those people in Germany who are unhappy with the price tag for Kane and who regard Bayern's attempts to get him as an indication that there are issues in the Bundesliga.
The enormous sum of money that is about to be paid is "for a player whose contract will be up the following year." "And who would then be available for free of charge," a comment piece that was published in Bild earlier this week asked. According to what was written, this would be an "indictment" of "German football as a whole."
Why have we been unable, over the course of many years, to cultivate our own pool of talented center forwards? When we first started out, we had an abundance of them.
