How Kane won over Bavaria to be firmly in Ballon d’Or conversation
England’s captain has had another sensational season at Bayern Munich to assume his place at the pinnacle of the game – but it has been a long road to this point ‘We had our body fat test done and I was the highest. Pochettino said I wasn’t trying hard’ 9 Jun 2026 - The Guardian Rob Draper The Bayern Munich honorary president, Uli Hoeness, has a propensity for hyperbole, so when he labelled Harry Kane as the best transfer the club has ever made in the wake of the DFB-Pokal final, which Bayern won 3-0 thanks to a Kane hat-trick, you wondered whether he was simply dialling up the rhetoric. A month on, emotion subsided, it appears not. “He absolutely is the best we’ve had,” another Bayern insider confirms. It’s impossible to overstate the unfussy way Kane has won over not just Bayern but, perhaps, global football opinion. Kane’s travails through Euro 2024, when he still had yet to win a trophy, suggested a player on the downslide. Combined with the scepticism that met his Golden Boot at R...