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🗓️ 15 May 2025
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Harry Kane’s trophy drought is over having helped Bayern Munich to the Bundesliga in his second season in Germany.
But is one Bundesliga trophy enough for the England captain - and is silverware the only marker of success?
Host: Ayo Akinwolere
With: Seb Stafford-Bloor and Art De Roche
Executive Producer: Adey Moorhead
Producer: Guy Clarke
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0:00.0 | The Athletic FC Podcast Network. |
0:08.0 | Welcome to the Athletic FC podcast with me, Ayur Akimwalere. |
0:11.7 | Harry Kane's trophy drought is over. |
0:14.6 | And Harry Kane gets in on the action, rightly soon. |
0:19.2 | But is won Bundesliga trophy enough for the England captain, |
0:22.5 | and is silverware the only marker of success? |
0:29.7 | Here with us today, we have our German football correspondent, Seb Stafford Blair, |
0:34.3 | and our Arsenal writer Art de Roche. |
0:36.9 | Right, Seb, let's start with you. Look, |
0:39.2 | Harry Kane has finally got himself a trophy. This is wonderful news for a guy who's had a 16-year |
0:45.4 | career with no silverware. I mean, look, it has really vindicated the reason that buying Borton, |
0:50.3 | hasn't it? Yeah, absolutely. What they were pursuing is excellence, first-class goal |
0:54.7 | scorer, dependability. His goals scoring record in the Bundesliga is pretty much one of one, |
0:59.6 | one goal to every one game. And yeah, I think it's kind of, by Munich will always judge themselves |
1:05.0 | on more than just winning Bundesleaguers. So there is more to do. And I think there is still, in Germany, there is still Chrisism of Kane. |
1:13.5 | There is still probably more focus on the chance he misses than there was when he was back in the Premier |
1:18.9 | League with Tottenham. I'd say it's a little bit more similar to the attitude that England fans have |
1:24.8 | towards Kane during tournaments than it was the way Tottenham fans treated him. |
1:28.9 | But it's a step in the right direction. And, you know, in interviews recently, |
1:32.4 | Kane has talked about this. He's got out from underneath this very, very tedious narrative |
1:36.4 | about him not having won anything. Whereas if you look at his individual statistics, |
1:41.6 | his performances, what he's managed to accomplish, in spite of some |
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