ready to begin discussions over extending that deal.<\/a><\/p>\nThat love is very much mutual. Bayern honorary president Uli Hoeness has called Kane “the best signing we’ve ever made”.<\/p>\n
This is a club who have had some legendary goalscorers in Gerd Muller, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge and Robert Lewandowski.<\/p>\n
Kane scored 61 goals in 51 club matches last season, the most a Bayern player has ever struck in one campaign.<\/p>\n
That took his total to 146 goals – plus 33 assists – in 147 games for Bayern. He won the European Shoe in 2024 and 2026 and ‘just’ the regular Bundesliga Golden Boot in 2025.<\/p>\n
He also scored all three goals in the German Cup final win over Stuttgart to complete the 2026 double.<\/p>\n
“There are many fans who believe he could win the Ballon d’Or,” said Eckner.<\/p>\n
“Bayern are lobbying for it [and it is] also a sign towards the much younger Michael Olise that a move to Real Madrid wouldn’t be necessary to win the Ballon d’Or.<\/p>\n
“Kane has impressed with his very consistent and relentless goalscoring in the Bundesliga. He has essentially filled the shoes of Robert Lewandowksi, who put up similar numbers. <\/p>\n
“Bayern rely heavily on Kane. They haven’t signed a real back-up for him, nor a potential replacement. His contract runs out at the end of the season, but Bayern are sure he will extend for a few more years.”<\/p>\n
Were Kane to win the Ballon d’Or he would be only the second Englishman to win it since the 1970s and the first since Michael Owen in 2001.<\/p>\n
“The Ballon d’Or is as big as it gets, from an individual point of view,” he said.<\/p>\n
“It’s not in my hands. I’ve done what I can do in terms of putting in the performances. It’s now down to votes and other people and the media – stuff I can’t control – so we’ll see what happens.”<\/p>\n
However last November Kane admitted: “I could score 100 goals this season, but if I don’t win the Champions League or the World Cup, you’re probably not going to win the Ballon d’Or.”<\/p>\n
He lost in the semi-final of both competitions.<\/p>\n
Another one of Bayern’s irreplaceable players is another Londoner in Olise, who represents France at international level.<\/p>\n
The forward has scored 43 goals – including one in this season’s Super Cup – with 46 assists in just over two years at the club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Kane joined Bayern on a four-year deal in 2022 from Tottenham there was a feeling, certainly in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":874286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-874285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=874285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/874286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}