Just came the news that Bayern Munich star Harry Kane has a buyout clause that decreases with each window.
Bayern Munich’s preferred target as Harry Kane replaces if England’s captain were to leave the Bundesliga club in the next year or so has emerged – and that could mean bad news for both Arsenal and Manchester United.
Kane moved to Bayern in the summer of 2023 in a transfer worth £100 million from boyhood club Tottenham Hotspur.
The striker had one year left on his contract at the north London club, and Spurs chose to sell their precious asset rather than risk seeing him leave for free a year later, Kane having scored 280 goals in 435 appearances.
So far at the Allianz Arena, Kane has scored 70 goals in 72 games in all competitions for the Bundesliga team, and his contract at Bayern runs until the summer of 2027.
It has recently emerged that in the recently closed January transfer window, there was a buyout clause in Kane’s Bayern contract.
Bild reported that he could have left the German side for around £67 million last month, a clause that will drop to around £54 million in the January 2026 transfer window, when Kane will have 18 months left on his Bayern deal.
The Daily Telegraph has confirmed that Kane’s former club Spurs have a first-option deal should Bayern ever agree to sell the striker and would give him the option to return to north London if he wished.
Kane is reported to enjoy living in Munich, and the clause is not something he is thinking of activating at the moment.
However, a further report from Bild has suggested that Bayern are considering their options in the transfer market if Kane leaves Bayern, with two names having been mentioned in the same breath as the Premier League teams.
Bayern have been in talks about possible moves for RB Leipzig’s Benjamin Sesko and Sporting’s Viktor Gyokeres, who are two of Europe’s hottest prospects.
Arsenal have been heavily linked with a move for Sesko, while Gyokeres has also been heavily tipped to reunite with his former boss Ruben Amorim at Manchester United following his move to Old Trafford from Sporting in November.
