2023-08-10 22:51:58
The end of a long summer suspense. A time hoped for on the PSG side, Harry Kane now knows his new base. Bayern and Tottenham have indeed reached an agreement for the transfer to Munich of the 30-year-old center forward. Many media evoke, Thursday, a record amount for the Bundesliga, above 100 million euros.
Bayern will have taken time, more than a year, but have finally found a player capable of replacing Robert Lewandowski, who left for Barcelona, at the forefront of his attack. To attract this world-class striker, the Bavarian club was forced to break the bank, which is neither in its habits nor in its tradition.
The British sports site The Athletic was the first to announce the agreement between the two clubs, followed by Sky Sports in Germany and several other English and German media. According to them, the transfer price amounts to more than 100 million euros, above the first offers made by Bayern when Tottenham president Daniel Levy had set a minimum price of 100 million pounds, around 116, 5 million euros. The player still had a year on his contract.
Just 30 years old (since July 28), Harry Kane is about to sign with the reigning German champions, to become the most expensive rookie in the history of the Bundesliga, ahead of the 80 million euros spent by Bayern in the summer of 2019 to bring in the French world champion Lucas Hernandez.
He hopes to open his record in Germany
Having passed very close to a year 2023 without a trophy – the 11th consecutive league title was miraculously snatched in the 89th minute during a stunning last day – Bayern realized that it was necessary to find a replacing Lewandowski, a real goal machine for eight seasons, while the Cameroonian Éric Maxim Choupo-Moting was unavailable for a long time at the end of last season.
Top scorer for the Three Lions since March 2023 (58 goals, five more than Wayne Rooney), “Prince Harry” – one of his nicknames – hopes to open his record, he who has collected individual distinctions (top scorer in the Premier League in 2015-16, 2016-17 and 2020-21, top scorer in the World Cup in 2018) without ever winning a single trophy. At Bayern Munich, Kane – who is about to have his first experience abroad – will find a structure capable of filling this void. Both nationally and internationally. The club has won the Champions League six times: 1974, 1975, 1976, 2001, 2013 and 2020.
The departure of the kid from Spurs – Kane arrived there in 2004, at the age of 11 – also marks the end of a cycle for the north London club.
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