All English eyes were focused on Harry Kane this week when he grabbed a brace in Bayern Munich in the Champions League wrinkle match against Bundesliga Rivals Bayer Leverkusen.
The side of Xabi Alonso was the newest who waiting for that elusive first big title of his career when they terminated the decade of the domestic supremacy of Munich in previous term.
Kane's Double On Wednesday evening, Bayern Munich inspired a 3-0 win in the Champions League last 16, so that they come in handy for passing their German counterparts in Europe Elite Competition.
But regardless of what happens in the second stage of next week, there seems to be nothing that can prevent the German title medal from going to its neck within a few weeks.
Bayern are eight points – effective nine in view of their enormously better goal difference – free from Leverkusen with 10 games to play.
And their remaining opponents, including six of the bottom eight and only Mainz and Leipzig in the top six.
It means that Kane is on course to lay that bogey – and to think about the other goal of the main club of his career.
That would be for him to revise the Prem Record count of Alan Shearer of 260 goals and possibly determine a mark that may never be broken.
Kane scored 213 goals in 320 top flight matches for spurs for his £ 100 million move to Bavaria in 2023, which means that he is only 47 goals behind Shearer's Tally – set in 441 performances for Blackburn and Newcastle.
Despite his impressive statistics at Bayern, with 57 goals in 58 Bundesliga performances and 73 in 78 races in all competitions, Kane is not universally popular, interrogated about his contribution outside the 18-Yard Box and in the “big” games.
Last month it claims that he could be available this summer if a club corresponded to his £ 67 million release clause was not refused.
That seemed to open the door for a first return. So where can Kane, who will be 32 in July?
Tottenham
A return to N17 would be Spurs -Fans's dream – even if the club would splash £ 65 million last summer to land Dominic Solanke from Bournemouth.
Kane became Tottenham's record scorer of all time in his last season in The Lane, ending in 280 goals of 435 games when he passed Jimmy Greaves' Mark.
Many Spurs -fans remain convinced that they would have played Champions League football this season if the club had put confidence in Ange Postecoglou who worked his magic with Kane in the side -even if that had had him not to leave anything last summer.
Kane was desperate to land silverware with Tottenham – he spent almost two decades in the club and will always be “one of our own”.
But Kane also felt disappointed by Daniel Levy when his proposed move to Manchester City fell in 2021 and it is unclear whether he would consider a return to the club while the current hierarchy is present.
Or if Spurs were willing to get that asking price.
ARSENAL
Unthinkable, certainly.
Kane knows how Sol Campbell is remembered by Tottenham fans after he had walked the club in the club in 2001 to join the Gunners – and even if it was not a direct swap, he would run the risk of destroying his reputation.
But one of the most famous photos of the Young Kane was that he was wearing an Arsenal shirt and celebrated the “Invincibles” and their 2004 triumph – when the premium was won in White Hart Lane.
He was also in the books of Arsenal as a young person, released after a year in their academy at the age of nine and who was subsequently picked up by Watford before he came to Spurs in 2004.
Nevertheless, Kane has always insisted that he grew up like a Spurs fan in a trace-supporting family.
And Arsenal supporters hated a passion when he scored goal after goal against them – accused him of all kinds of nasty activities because he was so strictly at the top.
Yet Arsenal's need for a real no. 9 has become a running joke in the game – even more than earlier this season.
There is no better authentic line leader than Kane, even in his early 1930s.
Can you imagine how much joy of the gooners would be if that would happen?
Chelsea
When Mauricio Pochettino was unveiled as Chelsea -Baas in 2023, the ghost of Kane left him to Stamford Bridge who let many Spurs fans suffer from nightmares.
Barely 18 months later, Pochettino has long since disappeared.
But Chelsea's need for a totemic central striker who can also be a maker of Supreme has not disappeared.
The new Chelsea transfer approach under Todd Boehly is aimed at young players, long-term deals and potential future sales value.
That would not be a situation with Kane, who may have four seasons at the highest level in his locker, with little or no sold -out value, even after a few campaigns.
Although it is difficult to imagine that Kane is wearing the red shirt of Arsenal, the hostility towards Chelsea of Spurs -fans is not nearly as strong – even if it is demonstrably the other way deeper, with many blues supporters that Tottenham consider their real rival.
Manchester United
United turned out the big guns to try to lure Kane at least twice in the past.
Gary Neville's notorious video interview with golf course caused major problems at the level of board in N17, with anger through the roof.
Both times, despite the opportunities, Kane refused the invitation – making him clear that he was committed to Tottenham for the first time and then effectively chose the city on the next occasion.
That Kane would now consider going to an association in a state of completely flux, if he wants to leave Germany, is even more difficult to imagine.
But the need of United to someone who could really make a difference is undisputed, where fans look at the statistics of Rasmus Hojlund and shake their heads at the DANE.
Likewise for Sir Jim Ratcliffe, Landing Kane would be a game changer.
Remember how Robin van Persie was signed as the last season of Sir Alex Ferguson “present” to dismiss United to the title.
Since then they have not won it, but if Kane has received the silverware apart from his back at Bayern, he might work the oracle at Old Trafford.
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