How Bayern got Kane out of Tottenham
The Athletic FC Podcast
The Athletic
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🗓️ 14 August 2023
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
One of the transfer window’s longest-running sagas is over now Harry Kane has swapped Tottenham Hotspur for Bayern Munich in a deal worth more than €100 million (£86.4m, $110m).
Join Ayo Akinwolere, David Ornstein, Charlie Eccleshare and Seb Stafford-Bloor as they delve into the detail of the deal, explain how Bayern secured the England captain’s signature and assess where Tottenham go next.
Produced by Guy Clarke
Executive Producer: Adey Moorhead
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| 0:00.0 | Harry Kane's Tottenham career is over, well, at least for now. |
| 0:09.1 | A four-year deal signed with Bayern Munich signalled his intent to win trophies. |
| 0:13.8 | How did Bayern get this complex yet sensitive deal over the line? |
| 0:18.1 | And what next for Spurs without Kane? |
| 0:20.5 | I'm Ayo Akim Wollary. Welcome to the |
| 0:23.2 | Athletic Football podcast. Ultimately, I wanted to be playing at the highest level. I wanted to be |
| 0:30.4 | playing in the Champions League. I want it to be fighting for titles every year. So yeah, coming to |
| 0:36.2 | Bayern Munich, one of the biggest clubs in the world, gives me that |
| 0:40.7 | opportunity. |
| 0:41.3 | So I'm looking forward to that challenge. |
| 0:45.5 | Okay, so Buy Munich finally signed Harry Kane from Totner in a transfer worth more than |
| 0:50.7 | 100 million euros. |
| 0:52.1 | That's about 86.4 million pounds and 110 million US dollars. |
| 0:58.1 | To take us inside the deal, we have the Athletics football correspondent David Ornstein |
| 1:02.0 | and also Tottenham writer Charlie Eccleshire who witnessed Spurs without Kane as they drew up |
| 1:07.0 | Brentford yesterday. |
| 1:08.3 | Right, let's get into it. |
| 1:09.8 | Kane, a man with so many suitors, from Spain to France and more importantly, closer |
| 1:14.5 | to home, Manchester joggernauts as well. |
| 1:17.3 | But he chose the kings of Germany. |
| 1:19.8 | David, can you talk us through this quite complex deal that happened? |
| 1:26.5 | Where to begin? |
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