Tottenham news as Harry Kane has opened up on his goals after moving to Bayern Munich and what Spurs couldn't give him.
Harry Kane has admitted that he felt envious watching his international teammates playing in the Champions League whilst Tottenham missed out.
"With Bayern Munich sometimes we expect them to win because they have won [the Bundesliga title] for the last 11 or 12 years or whatever it has been.
"But in my short period there is still a lot of pressure to win these trophies. We have not won the cup for a few years and we have not won the Champions League for a few years, so there is definitely a lot to gain and a lot of pressure to take. Time will tell, but at the moment I am enjoying that feeling.
Whereas at Tottenham it was often seen as a success to reach the Champions League, at Bayern it is a foregone conclusion and achievements are made and recorded with winners' medals. For Kane, who played in the competition in five seasons at Spurs, it is something completely new to him.
"The feeling at Bayern is that you have to win every game. We won the first two games 4-0 and 3-1 and there was still talk about not being too happy about the way we played. That’s part and parcel of being at one of the biggest clubs in the world.
"Of course, there is no hiding the fact it [silverware] is the one thing missing from my career at the moment and when you have got players in the [England] squad who have won things you want to be part of that as well and have those experiences as well," Kane added.
"Just the experiences of having title runs and cup runs and hopefully a Champions League run will only add, hopefully, to handling pressure in certain situations. If we are going to win anything with England we are going to have to deal with that. Me, being captain, I want to put myself in that position as much as possible."
Kane is likely to lead his country to his third major tournament next year when England enter Euro 2024 - as they will almost certainly do after a strong start to qualifying - and is pushing to go the extra step. Although his individual achievements have been matched by few in the world over the past 10 years and beyond, Kane's lack of trophies has been a consistent stick to beat him with throughout his career.
At 30, Kane has made it through the knockout stages in the Champions League on just three occasions but still boasts a strong record of 21 goals in 32 appearances. At Bayern he is expected to take them to the next level and replace the goals of Robert Lewandowski, who fired the German giants to glory in 2020.
"Of course, I want them to do well, Kyle and all those guys to win when they are in competitions I am not in, but a part of me wants to have those experiences. With the other players in the team having done that, I am not sure jealous is the right word, but it does motivate me to go on and try to push myself towards some of those trophies the guys have got."
They will link-up once more under Gareth Southgate but fans have been left disappointed knowing what could have been going forward. For Kane, though, his attention has turned towards winning trophies rather than breaking Alan Shearer's all-time league goalscoring record.
"I think there was a lot of talk about it and the fact I was getting closer to it but I have never been anybody who has chased individual honours ahead of team awards," Kane continued.
"Ultimately it comes down to me to see how good I can be and I felt like I had to be playing Champions League football and competing for titles each year. Bayern Munich definitely gives me that.
"The record of course would be amazing and it might be amazing if one day I do end up breaking it. But it is not why I play football and my move shows that."
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