<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\nBut the tabloid Bild led the call for a period of reflection after the feverish negotiations, calling the price paid for Kane, \u201cA damning indictment for Bayern \u2026 for German football,\u201d accusing the top managers of the game in Germany, of being in \u201cdeep sleep mode\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAt what price?\u201d the paper asked its readers on Sunday. At stake, it said, nothing less than the future of German football\u2019s ability to nurture its own talent. \u201cWhy have we not managed for years, to develop our own talented centre-forwards, of which we used to have a constant supply? And why are we not drawing on our own younger players, especially as the English are way beyond us financially?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It concluded it would have been far more preferable to have invested the money in the future. \u201cA few of the Kane millions would probably have been put to much better use for youth training,\u201d it wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Undeniable is the excitement sparked at the weekend over everything from the very fact Kane had chosen to come to Germany, to where he would choose to live, whether his fourth child, due in two weeks, will be born in Germany or the UK, and his enthusiasm for embracing the culture and learning German (two lessons a week are already booked in, he told journalists, pointing out his ability is as yet limited to that one, very Bavarian word, \u201cServus\u201d). Yet many are flummoxed by the scale and audacity of the deal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
His unfortunate debut \u2013 unable to help his new team against RB Leipzig through no fault of his own, did nothing to dampen the lack of conviction. \u201cFirst Kane hype, now the hangover,\u201d ran the headline in Der Spiegel, after the 3-0 defeat in the Allianz Arena.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The news magazine quoted Max Eberl, RB Leipzig\u2019s sporting director, who said: \u201cIt\u2019s almost too much, what is being expected of Kane. It\u2019s like he\u2019s the messiah, who walks on water.\u201d But football is not down to single players, he said. \u201cIt\u2019s a team sport.\u201d’I need to play at the highest level’: Harry Kane explains move to Bayern Munich \u2013 video<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Der Spiegel said that Bayern had pulled off a \u201cprestige coup\u201d. But, it believed \u201cfor German football it simply means things will get more boring \u2026 This is, in the first instance, good for Bayern, but there has to be doubt cast over whether this is useful for the Bundesliga, as both are intertwined.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As Bayern has a habit of snapping up most titles, year after year \u2013 notwithstanding the upset by Leipzig \u2013 the arrival of someone the calibre of Kane will only reinforce this trend, Spiegel is convinced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Its football expert Danial Montazeri said Kane would make Bayern far more dangerous in front of the goal in the penalty area where he feels at home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Being an excellent setter-upper of goals, will help lots of strikers at Bayern \u2013 in short, he will make the Bavarians much more versatile, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWith Harry Kane, Bayern Munich are now one of the potentially strongest counteroffensive teams in the world,\u201d but that in turn, Montazeri argued, would reduce yet further the already low level of competitiveness between Bayern and the rest of the Bundesliga, and it is doubtful whether it will help Bayern\u2019s chances in the Champions League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Borrowing his wife, Kate\u2019s, pregnancy and impending birth as a metaphor for the nine-month negotiations followed by the final painful, even excruciating contractions of the final days, the S\u00fcddeutsche Zeitung (headline: \u201cNein! Doch! Ohh!\u201d \u2013 (no, yes, oh), said the \u201ccrazy deal\u201d would \u201chave to be analysed by historians and will indeed go down in history, as being the first in which such a large number of participants completely lost it\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die Zeit accused Bayern of actively participating in the type of turbocapitalism that has so far been largely, refreshingly absent from German football, quoting the former professional and now executive Uli Hoeness, who remarked earlier this year that Bayern would be \u201ccompletely crazy\u201d to buy Kane for anything like the sums that were being touted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But the fans, said Die Zeit, were \u201cnevertheless happy\u201d. And the weeks of negotiating, with the \u201cboring hourly updates\u201d that accompanied them, \u201cfit very well into the era of commercial football. Media, as well as fans, are crying out for more investment, as if there were no other methods with which to put a team together and build it up. For example like something as old fashioned as promoting young homegrown talent.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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