Kane has maintained his magnificent form for club and country, becoming record scorer for both, while playing amid a constant swirl of transfer speculation that has involved Manchester City, Manchester United then – in far more concrete fashion – Bayern Munich.
He has not shown any inclination to extend his career-long stay at Spurs with only a year left on his contract, forcing chairman Daniel Levy to bend his “not for sale” stance and choose between collecting £86.4m now or potentially nothing next summer.
In the end, Bayern’s succession of offers finally opened the door to leave Kane pondering the various options open to him before the 30-year-old, who has scored 280 goals in 435 games for Spurs, makes the biggest decision of his career.
Does he stay at Spurs another season to see out his contract, leaving him with the enticing target of, in time, becoming the Premier League’s highest scorer with his current tally 213 second behind record holder Alan Shearer’s 260?
Does he give himself another year to decide whether, after a club career without a trophy, Spurs might finally be heading in the direction of silverware – or wait to take up one of the Premier League offers he would be certain to receive next summer?
Does he make the switch to Bayern Munich now, with its almost cast-iron guarantee of at least one trophy and an improved salary, and move to Germany where the arrival of England’s captain and record scorer would be a huge coup for brand Bundesliga?
Kane’s legacy is already assured for Spurs and England but the idea of adding that Premier League record to his list of personal achievements may just give a player who delivers more than a cursory nod to the history books pause for thought.
Bayern, however, offer new horizons in the season before the Euros are held in Germany – and to use an old Spurs saying, “the game is about glory”, so this is an opportunity to sample some of the success that has avoided him in north London, despite his own consistently magnificent performances.
Kane is understood to have been highly impressed by the early work of new Spurs manager Ange Postecoglou although the word has been for some time that he is very tempted by life under former Chelsea boss Thomas Tuchel.
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