Harry Kane: I'm less keen on Premier League return than when I left Tottenham

Harry Kane says he is less keen on returning to the Premier League than he was when he signed for Bayern Munich.

Kane left Tottenham Hotspur for Bayern in August 2023 and admitted on Monday that he had initially been fully committed to the idea of returning to English football after a spell in Germany. But having flourished at Bayern in the last two years, scoring 103 goals in 106 games, Kane said that his desire to return home has diminished.

The 2025-25 season is the third of a four-year deal that Kane signed at Bayern, and while he denied having any contract discussions with his club so far, he said that he would be open to an “honest conversation” about an extension beyond 2027.

“In terms of staying there longer I could definitely see that,” Kane said at St. George’s Park, England’s midlands training base, on Monday afternoon.

“I spoke openly a couple of weeks ago that I have not had those conversations with Bayern yet, but if they were to arise, I would be willing to talk and have an honest conversation. Obviously, it depends on how the next year goes and what we achieve together. Right now, I would say we are in a fantastic moment. And I am not thinking about anything else.”

It has always been widely assumed that Kane would want to come back to England after his time in Germany and try to break the Premier League goalscoring record. He is in second place with 213 Premier League goals, 47 behind Alan Shearer’s 260.

“In terms of the Premier League, I don’t know,” Kane said. “If you had asked me when I first left to go to Bayern, I would have said for sure I would come back. Now I have been there a couple of years I would probably say that (desire to return) has gone down a little bit. But I wouldn’t say I would never go back.”

Kane said that he is in no rush to decide anything about his future, given he still has almost two years left on his Bayern contract.

“I am calm, I love the manager at Bayern, I think he is fantastic,” the 32-year-old said of Vincent Kompany. “And as always in my career, as long we are improving and I am improving then I am happy to see what we can achieve. I don’t think there is any need to rush anything.

“The way I feel on the pitch, the way I’m moving, the way I’m seeing the game is at the highest level I’ve ever had.”

Kane added that having won his first major trophy with the Bundesliga last season, he is now determined to work even harder. “I pushed myself the other way, in terms of being even better, eating even cleaner, doing more gym,” he said. “Just trying to get the most out of what I’ve got right now. As you get later on in your career, you know you’re not 21, 22 any more. So you have to drain as much as you can from your career.”