Tottenham Hotspur welcomed Harry Kane back to North London earlier this month just a year since his big move to Bayern Munich.
Tottenham Hotspur are finally set to kick off their Premier League campaign on Monday night.
Ange Postecoglou’s men travel to face Leicester City having watched the rest of the Premier League get their seasons underway over the last 72 hours.
Maybe it’s a case of saving the best for last; that’s what Tottenham fans are hoping for anyway.
Tottenham supporters would no doubt love to see Dominic Solanke get off to a fast start too having impressed in training after joining from Bournemouth.
Solanke has been brought in to score goals and ultimately replace the impact of Harry Kane following his move to Bayern Munich last year.
Harry Kane’s Arsenal exit revisited
Few strikers in the world could truly replace Kane, so perhaps it’s unfair on Solanke to have that expectation hanging over him.
The pair have already spoken though with Kane believing that Solanke is a great signing for Tottenham.
Kane will go down as one of Tottenham’s greatest-ever players having racked up 280 goals in 435 appearances for Spurs.
Kane’s time to leave came last summer but he remarkably failed to win a trophy in his first season with Bayern.
The striker came back to Tottenham earlier this month as Bayern beat Spurs in a pre-season friendly, allowing fans a chance to show him some love.
Kane’s story is an incredible one given that few really backed him to become a superstar, but once he was given a chance in the Tottenham side, he grasped it with both hands.
The 31-year-old famously spent time in the Arsenal ranks as a kid before finding his way to Tottenham – and landing himself in club folklore.
Former Tottenham Head of Academy Recruitment Richard Allen has now spoken about bringing Kane to Tottenham as a kid.
Allen told Project Footballer that Tottenham had built up a relationship with Kane and his family prior to his move, making the deal relatively easy when it finally materialised.
Allen added that one contact inside Arsenal actually admitted fearing that the Gunners had made a mistake in releasing Kane at the age of just nine.
The former Spurs man added that Kane was in danger of being released on so many occasions at Tottenham but the club just kept sticking by him – and it paid off in the end.
“I do generally believe, more often than not, a player signs for the scout rather than the club,” said Allen. “Okay, in that case, he didn’t, he went to Arsenal, but the relationship was still there with the scout and the father, so as soon as he was released, he was in.”
“We also had a phone call from somebody – I won’t say who – at Arsenal saying ‘we just released Harry Kane… I’m not sure, I think we may have made a mistake on this one, I wanted to keep him’. If you look at Harry Kane’s journey, he struggled every single year. Every other year, he was on for a release and it was like ‘no, benefit of the doubt, keep him a bit longer, keep him a big longer’. Really, all the way through… his loans weren’t particularly great, he had a decent one at Millwall for a season and at the back end of it, he wasn’t even getting on the pitch,” he added.
Kane return to Tottenham
Kane wanted to leave Tottenham in order to chase trophies and they may well come with Bayern this season.
The move feels somewhat similar to Teddy Sheringham leaving Tottenham for Manchester United back in 1997.
31 at the time of his move, Sheringham has failed to win a major trophy and decided to leave for Old Trafford.
Three league titles and a Champions League final win later, Sheringham returned to Tottenham and came so close to winning the League Cup in 2002.
Perhaps Kane will do the same – attempt to win silverware away from Spurs before turning down the line.
Some Spurs fans would rather see him push for silverware under Ange Postecoglou but a return to Spurs one day is surely in the offing for Kane – especially with the Premier League goalscoring record still within sight.
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