Harry Kane can finally end trophy woe this weekend - and no-one deserves it more

If the title formality is confirmed this weekend, it will mean more to some players than it will to others. It will be special to all of the winners but those who have major team honours on their CV are likely to be less delirious about their achievement.

But for one footballer, the title will be extra-special. And we are not talking about the Premier League title here, we are talking about the Bundesliga title.

Saturday, April 26 is the day when Harry Kane’s wait could finally be over. If his Bayern Munich side beat Mainz in the Allianz Stadium and Leverkusen fail to beat Augsburg, Kane will be a champion for the first time in a 14-year professional career.

A couple of days ago, honorary club president Uli Hoeness had this to say about Kane, who was bought by the Bavarians for a club record £100million in the summer of 2023. “He has become a real Bayern player. You can feel that he badly wants to win the title. He fights, he works, he scores an unbelievable amount of goals, and he also works for the team.”

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And when Hoeness says Kane works for the team, he is probably part-referring to the 24 assists the England captain has made since moving to Germany. Those assists are a nice accompaniment to the 80 goals Kane has scored in 88 appearances for Bayern.

In the Bundesliga, he has 60 goals in 60 matches. It is a remarkable record. He will follow last season’s chart-topping scoring efforts by again being the Bundesliga’s top-scorer this season.

That type of personal achievement means a lot to Kane, make no mistake. This is a player who, rightly, is never coy when it comes to celebrating individual accolades.

And there have been plenty of them - three Premier League Golden Boots and a World Cup Golden Boot, to name but a few. But the motivational force behind his switch from Spurs to Bayern was to fill that void on his record. He must have known better than anyone that the hunger for a first team trophy was unlikely to be satisfied at Tottenham Hotspur.

From a team point of view, things did not go to plan in the first season, Bayern failing to win a trophy despite Kane’s 44 goals in all competitions. But Bayern are now eight points clear of Xabi Alonso’s Leverkusen with four games remaining so it is now just a case of when they win the title, not if.

Kane’s goals have been crucial but the England striker, 31, has also won widespread praise in Munich for his commitment and attitude, his manager Vincent Kompany saying: “It helps when you have a top player who wants to run and fight for the team like a youth player. I played against him as an opponent and he has become better with age. I trust his consistency and how he works, and when you have that quality, you always get your moments.”

There has been speculation that Premier League clubs will try and tempt Kane back this summer but all the noise from Germany is that the England skipper is settled and happy in Munich. And he will certainly be happy when the formality of the title is completed.

“If we win the championship, no-one would deserve it more than Harry,” said Hoeness. And few, either in Germany or in England, would disagree.

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