The fight for Kane never ends
Report: FC Bayern is also dismissed with a record offer
08/07/2023 4:51 p.m
He comes? Or is he not coming? The struggle for Tottenham’s goalscorer Harry Kane is becoming a stalemate for FC Bayern. According to a report, those responsible for the German champions are said to have been unsuccessful with a record offer.
FC Bayern Munich is apparently still biting its teeth at Tottenham Hotspurs in the struggle for top striker Harry Kane: As “The Athletic” reports, the Londoners also rejected the latest offer from the German record champions at the weekend. Bayern officials are said to have been willing to pay around 100 million euros for the captain of the English national team. But Daniel Levy, boss of the Premier League club, is apparently still unimpressed. According to the British “Telegraph”, the English were not dissatisfied with the amount of the offer. In fact, Spurs boss Daniel Levy did not like the payment terms. As the newspaper further reported, Levy would like to have most of the money for his goalscorer in advance. So he wants to keep the proportion of the variable bonus payment as low as possible.
Bayern now have to consider whether to restructure their offer. According to the report, FC Bayern is still discussing how to proceed in the case. In any case, the club urgently wants clarity in this key personnel matter, various media had reported on a deadline that expired last weekend.
Kane’s contract in London runs until July 2024, the 30-year-old would then like to move to Munich, they say. However, FC Bayern Munich are already desperately looking for a new centre-forward after the attempt to replace record goalscorer Robert Lewandowski with winger Sadio Mané failed miserably. Sky and “The Athletic” recently reported that Harry Kane and Tottenham Hotspur also want to have created clear conditions by the time the Premier League starts on August 13th. FC Bayern had already stretched a lot in the negotiations: According to information from “The Athletic”, they entered poker with an offer of 70 million euros plus bonus payments.
record transfer or nothing
International top football in the afternoon: RTL broadcasts the top-class test matches of FC Bayern Munich live and exclusively on free TV. FC Bayern will contest the last test before the start of the Bundesliga Monday 7 August at 16.55 against AS Monaco. Former Bundesliga coach Adi Hütter is on the sidelines of the eight-time French champions.
On his trip to Asia, FC Bayern had previously beaten Liverpool FC in a spectacular test (4:3), the comparison with Champions League winners Manchester City was lost (1:2).
Meanwhile, Tottenham coach Ange Postecoglou remains extremely calm in the struggle for his captain: “There is a deadline and that is the end of the transfer window. In addition, I am regularly in open dialogue with Harry and the club,” said the Australian on the sidelines Friendly match of his team against Shakhtar Donetsk (5:1), in which the courted Kane scored four times. The transfer window for transfers to the Bundesliga closes on the evening of September 1st. “I’ve told them that if the status quo changes, they have to let me know. I don’t need to know what’s coming and going in between. I just want to deal with what’s ahead because I have to, regardless of Result, build a team here.”
Uli Hoeneß, FC Bayern’s eternal patron and part of the club’s prominent transfer task force, had announced that Tottenham would “buckle”. The Spurs, especially club owner Joe Lewis, are not ready to lose their striker on a free transfer. Lewis had therefore called for an immediate sale of Kane if he refused to sign a new working paper in London. Spurs boss Levy is said to have flown to the United States over the weekend to meet with Lewis.
If both clubs still agree on a change, Kane would be by far the record entry in Bundesliga history. Lucas Hernández is currently the most expensive transfer to the Bundesliga, the Frenchman switched from Atlético Madrid to FC Bayern for around 80 million euros for the 2019/20 season, and the Frenchman has now moved on to Paris Saint-Germain for almost half.