When something doesn’t go well for Bayern Munich there’s takes on the reasons why across the German media. It’s a little like the Manchester United dynamic in England, but Bayern face far less competition, financially and in reality, than the Red Devils.
Following the defeat to Aston Villa in the Champions League this week, there’s been a reluctance to blame Vincent Kompany, and Manuel Neuer quickly made it clear he doesn’t think it was his fault. Therefore, attention has turned to Harry Kane and specifically the transfer fee paid to Tottenham Hotspur.
Bayern Munich paid Tottenham more than €100m for the England captain, and he can’t be questioned for the amount of goals he scored in his first season.
In his final season with Tottenham, Kane scored 32 goals. In his first season with Bayern Munich he found the back of the net a remarkable 44 times.
However, the German club didn’t win anything and that saw jokes about Kane bringing Tottenham’s trophy curse with him.
So far in this campaign, the 31-year-old has scored 10 goals, with three of those coming against Holstein Kiel and four against Dinamo Zagreb.
He didn’t score against Bayer Leverkusen in the last Bundesliga side, and he didn’t score against Aston Villa. This is all leading to some accusations of stat-padding.
Didi Hamann is always willing to share critical views, and he’s spoken to the German media to give Kane a bit of a kicking and bring up that Tottenham transfer fee.
Bild quote him as saying: “Harry Kane also had a personally sobering evening in Birmingham – in addition to the defeat. I said after the European Championship in the summer that he still has to prove that he is worth the 100 million – even though he scored over 30 goals last year.
“He wasn’t brought in to score a hat-trick against Darmstadt. He was brought in to score against Leverkusen and Aston Villa and to score in the quarter-finals of the Champions League. He hasn’t done that yet. I remain sceptical about the star striker.”
