Just a few hours after completing a transfer from Tottenham, Harry Kane was forced to endure a losing debut with Bayern Munich on Saturday. His new team lost to RB Leipzig in the German Super Cup by a score of 3-0, and Kane was a part of the losing effort.
Dani Olmo was the star of the show, making a magnificent display and scoring a hat-trick in Munich as Kane’s dream of securing his first major piece of silverware was dashed. Kane’s dream of clinching his first major piece of silverware was dashed by Dani Olmo.
Kane entered the game as a replacement in the 64th minute with Bayern already behind 2-0, and Olmo completed his hat trick shortly after Kane’s introduction.
Although the England captain played a relatively insignificant role, he managed to win the compassion of Bayern coach Thomas Tuchel.
“I just feel bad for Harry Kane, he probably thinks that we haven’t trained for four weeks,” said Tuchel, who admitted that he was at a loss for words due to the German champions’ lackluster performance. “I’m just sorry for Harry Kane,” Tuchel continued.
He described it as terrifying and inexplicable in his words. The same thing happened during the previous season, and it’s very evident that we’ve reached the same frequency once more today.
Earlier on Saturday, the record-setting goalscorer for England, Harry Kane, made his move to Manchester United from Tottenham for a transfer fee that was in excess of 100 million euros ($109.6 million).
A line of Bayern supporters had formed hours before the game was scheduled to begin in order to get their “Kane 9” shirts printed at the club store.
Kane, who was assigned the number nine vacated by Robert Lewandowski, had stated on social media that he was “feeling good” and “looking forward to the match” after taking part in his first training session as a new player for Bayern. Lewandowski had worn the number nine throughout his time with the club.
However, he was unable to stem the tide since Leipzig was awarded a penalty three minutes after he was substituted into the game.
Olmo’s successful penalty kick was the deciding factor in Marco Rose’s team winning their first Super Cup.
Kane will have to wait for his very first title as he has already come up short in four championship games (three with Tottenham and one with England).
Earlier, Leipzig had startled the Allianz Arena by taking the lead within the first three minutes of the match.
Olmo took advantage of Bayern’s failure to properly defend a free-kick taken by David Raum by casually stroking the ball past Sven Ulreich.
The goal roused the home team into action, and Serge Gnabry was responsible for creating Bayern’s finest scoring opportunities in the first half, but French teenager Mathys Tel missed them all.
The most impressive of them came after Gnabry made a fantastic reverse pass that put Tel in a position to score, but he could only shoot straight at the goalkeeper for Leipzig, Janis Blaswich.
When Olmo scored a spectacular second goal to double Leipzig’s lead a couple of minutes before halftime, things went from bad to worse for Bayern. Olmo’s goal gave Leipzig a 2-0 lead.
The Spaniard created space for himself by deftly pivoting around the Bayern defender Matthijs de Ligt, which allowed him to calmly slot the ball past Ulreich.”It is time to depart.”
Kane, now 30 years old, has moved to Bayern Munich after spending the previous 20 years at Tottenham, where he was unsuccessful in his attempts to win trophies on a consistent basis.
“I had the impression that it was time to depart. Kane said these things in a message he posted on social media. “I didn’t want to go into the season with a lot of unresolved future talk,” Kane added.
“Obviously, a lot of emotions are going through me right now; I’m sad to be leaving the club that I’ve spent nearly 20 years of my life at, from the time that I was an 11-year-old boy to the time that I am now a 30-year-old man.
“There have been so many wonderful times and unforgettable memories, memories that I will treasure for the rest of my life.”
On Thursday, an agreement was eventually reached between Bayern and the chairman of Spurs, Daniel Levy, after protracted negotiations between the two parties.
“It’s been a long process, but now we’re all the happier that Harry Kane will be wearing the Bayern Munich shirt with immediate effect,” said Jan-Christian Dreesen, the CEO of Bayern Munich. “We’re all the happier that Harry Kane will be wearing the Bayern Munich shirt with immediate effect.””Player of dreams”
In addition, he stated that “Harry Kane was our absolute dream player from the very beginning.” Both in terms of his football ability and his character, he is the ideal candidate for our team and the DNA of the club.
Levy was quoted as saying that Tottenham “reluctantly agreed to the transfer.”
After trying to find a suitable replacement for Lewandowski after he left for Barcelona the previous year, six-time defending European champions Bayern were in desperate need of a striker.
Lewandowski scored an average of 30 goals per season throughout his eight years at Bayern Munich, during which time the club was victorious in every single season of the Bundesliga. In the 2022-23 season, not a single player for Bayern scored 15 goals in the league.
In six of the past nine seasons in the Premier League, Kane had scored more than 20 goals, earning him the title of Golden Boot winner three times.
Kane, whose contract with Tottenham was set to expire in the summer of 2019, departed the club after scoring 280 goals in 435 games to become the all-time record goalscorer for the club, but he did so without winning a trophy.
Additionally, he has scored 58 goals for England in his international career, making him the country’s all-time leading scorer.
Because they have won the Bundesliga for the past 11 seasons in a row, victory is virtually assured for Bayern.
However, Bayern lost in the quarterfinals of the Champions League to Manchester City, who went on to win the tournament, and they only won the Bundesliga title by one goal courtesy to Borussia Dortmund’s collapse on the final day of the season.