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Harry Kane: Bayern Munich agree deal to sign England captain - but striker 'leaning towards' staying at Tottenham Hotspur

The England captain's future at Spurs has been the subject of intense speculation all summer.

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Bayern Munich have agreed a deal to sign England captain Harry Kane from Tottenham Hotspur.

However, it is understood the striker is leaning towards staying in north London, according to Sky Sports News.

If the German champions are able to tempt Kane away, they will break their transfer record to land Spurs's all-time leading scorer.

The fee is believed to be worth more than €100m (£86m), according to The Athletic - while other reports suggested the deal was close to £100m with add-ons.

Tottenham are not commenting on the latest emerging reports, but the risk of the club's star asset departing for free in under a year has underscored negotiations with Bayern.

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Kane, who has spent his whole career at Tottenham, aside from a few loan deals, has only one year left on his contract, and now has a decision to make.

However, an agreement of a fee between Spurs and the Bundesliga side moves Kane a step closer to leaving his boyhood club.

Spurs supporters sang "we want you to stay" during Sunday's 5-1 friendly victory over Shakhtar Donetsk - new manager Ange Postecoglou's first home game in charge - in which Kane scored four times.

The player's future at Spurs has been the subject of intense speculation all summer.

Manchester United had been linked with a move for Kane earlier in the transfer window.

Spurs lost 4-2 to Barcelona in Spain in their final pre-season game on Tuesday - but Kane was not in the squad.

The 30-year-old reportedly wants his future resolved before Spurs' Premier League season-opener at Brentford on Sunday.

Move to Bayern could end Kane's trophy drought

Rob Harris
Rob Harris

Sports correspondent

Harry Kane's loyalty to Tottenham has been stretched by the lack of silverware.

Now he has a decision to make about whether to join one club where winning titles seem a given - Bayern Munich.

Despite his stature as England captain and the second-highest scorer in Premier League history, the 30-year-old has seen contemporaries collect the trophies he has never won.

For years hints have been dropped that he could search for an exit.

In 2020, he said: "If I don't feel we're progressing as a team or going in the right direction, I'm not someone to stay there for the sake of it."

Yet the six-year contract he signed in 2018 meant it would have taken a hefty fee for Tottenham to sell their prized asset.

And Tottenham were reluctant to sell the striker whose goals were masking other deficiencies and qualifying them consistently for the Champions League - even reaching the 2019 final so unexpectedly.

But that was it - reaching the final. With still no trophy in Kane's cabinet, four years on.

By the time he was complaining about the standards around the team as last season drifted away from Spurs, his unhappiness was clear.

He scored an incredible 30 Premier League goals and Spurs still only finished eighth - missing out on any European qualification completely.

He went public in questioning the "standards around the team".

And when Bayern came calling and the fee offered rose, Tottenham felt they had to negotiate - or risk losing him for free at the end of the season.

A focal point of the team for much of the last decade, he could prove irreplaceable 鈥� even if 拢85m is banked from Bayern.

Kane - a Spurs academy graduate - is Tottenham's all-time record scorer with 280 goals in 435 appearances.

With 213 goals in 320 top flight games since making his Spurs debut in 2012, Kane is currently 48 goals off breaking Alan Shearer's record as the highest scorer in Premier League history.

He scored 30 Premier League goals last season in a disappointing campaign for Spurs.

They finished eighth in the top flight - missing out on European football, and the club have not won a trophy since 2008.

Bayern have won 11 consecutive Bundesliga titles, and have also enjoyed success in European competitions, winning the Champions League and UEFA Super Cup in 2020.