{"id":859833,"date":"2026-08-18T17:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T17:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/859833\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T17:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T17:02:09","slug":"harry-kane-ready-to-begin-talks-over-new-bayern-munich-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/859833\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Kane ready to begin talks over new Bayern Munich contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Harry Kane says he is ready to begin discussions with Bayern Munich over extending his contract with the Bundesliga champions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 33-year-old striker has entered the final 12 months of the four-year deal he signed after his \u00a386.4m move from Tottenham Hotspur in August 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kane scored 61 goals in 51 appearances in all competitions for Bayern last season as Vincent Kompany&#8217;s side completed a league and cup double.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We obviously said we wanted to talk after the World Cup and after my holiday. So I&#8217;m not sure exactly when, but they&#8217;ll start this week, next week&#8230; we&#8217;ll start those talks,&#8221; Kane said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Like I&#8217;ve said before, we&#8217;re calm, I think they&#8217;re calm with the situation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Obviously now is the time to start talking, because there&#8217;s only a year left. That&#8217;s important. But both sides are relaxed, and I&#8217;m pretty sure there&#8217;ll be some talks this week or next week.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The England captain has scored 98 goals in 94 games across three Bundesliga campaigns, and has won three successive Bundesliga Golden Boot awards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kane scored six goals for England at the 2026 World Cup, becoming England&#8217;s all-time leading World Cup scorer with 14 goals in 18 appearances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He is among the favourites to win the 2026 Ballon d&#8217;Or, but insisted he is focused on the upcoming season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The Ballon d&#8217;Or is as big as it gets, from an individual point of view,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I know I had a great season last season, but the focus is on this new season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The Ballon d&#8217;Or&#8217;s not in my hands. I&#8217;ve done what I can do in terms of putting in the performances. It&#8217;s now down to votes and other people and the media &#8211; stuff I can&#8217;t control &#8211; so we&#8217;ll see what happens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Obviously, it would be amazing if it was to happen. But ultimately, it&#8217;s still two or three months away before that&#8217;s decided so it&#8217;s not something that&#8217;s at the front of my mind right now.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Harry Kane says he is ready to begin discussions with Bayern Munich over extending his contract with the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":859834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-859833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=859833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/859834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=859833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=859833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}