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Bayern’s best ever? Harry Kane goes to World Cup in Ballon d’Or conversation
The England captain has finally assumed his place at the pinnacle of the game – it has been a long road to this point The Bayern Munich honorary president, Uli Hoeness, has a propensity for hyperbole, so when he labelled Harry Kane as the best transfer the club has ever made in the wake of the DFB-Pokal final, which Bayern won 3-0 thanks to a Kane hat-trick , you wondered whether he was simply dialling up the rhetoric. A month on, emotion subsided, it appears not. “He absolutely is the best we’ve had,” another Bayern insider confirms. It’s impossible to overstate the unfussy way Kane has won over not just Bayern Munich but, perhaps, global football opinion. Kane’s travails through Euro 2024 , when he still had yet to win a trophy, suggested a player on the downslide. Combined with the scepticism that met his Golden Boot at Russia 2018 among foreign observers – “top goalscorer despite not
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According to The Guardian’s source item, Bayern’s best ever? Harry Kane goes to World Cup in Ballon d’Or conversation, The England captain has finally assumed his place at the pinnacle of the game – it has been a long road to this point The Bayern Munich honorary president, Uli Hoeness, has a propensity for hyperbole, so when he labelled Harry Kane as the best transfer the club has ever made in the wake of the DFB-Pokal final, which Bayern won 3-0 thanks to a Kane hat-trick , you wondered whether he was simply dialling up the rhetoric. A month on, emotion subsided, it appears not. “He absolutely is the best we’ve had,” another Bayern insider confirms. It’s impossible to overstate the unfussy way Kane has won over not just Bayern Munich but, perhaps, global football opinion. Kane’s travails through Euro 2024 , when he still had yet to win a trophy, suggested a player on the downslide. Combined with the scepticism that met his Golden Boot at Russia 2018 among foreign observers – “top goalscorer despite not
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- Bayern’s best ever? Harry Kane goes to World Cup in Ballon d’Or conversationThe Guardian - 2026-06-08T12:45:55+00:00
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