On the back of Michael Owen\u2019s criticism of Harry Kane for leaving the Premier League and potentially abandoning his chance at becoming the league\u2019s all time top goalscorer, the England captain defended his decision to join Bayern Munich, emphasising his desire to win titles. Hoping to provide decorum, former Bayern Munich and Germany midfielder, Dietmar Hamann, weighed in on the altercation between Owen and Kane, pinning it down to a disagreement of philosophies.<\/p>\n
\u201dI heard what Michael Owen said the other day, that he didn\u2019t understand why Kane\u2019s gone to Germany, and obviously he sees it from a striker\u2019s perspective. I think he\u2019s still 40 or 50 goals short of that Premier League record. If he\u2019d stayed, he probably would have broken it. For me, a trophy would always be a lot more important than individual honours,\u201d said the 52-year-old football pundit (via @iMiaSanMia<\/a>). \u201cI\u2019ve never been a goalscorer, but if you say to me, \u2018You can be the Premier League all-time top scorer\u2019, or \u2018You have two, three, five trophies in the cabinet at the end of your career\u2019, I would always take the trophies over individual honours. That wouldn\u2019t be a question for me.\u201d<\/p>\n Every individual footballer is different. Some value individual success, others value team triumphs. There is no right answer. Either way, Bayern fans will be ecstatic Kane chose to come to Munich to win titles. Let\u2019s hope when he decides to leave, it\u2019s with a full trophy cabinet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On the back of Michael Owen\u2019s criticism of Harry Kane for leaving the Premier League and potentially abandoning…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[6102,2000,299,3968,1824],"class_list":{"0":"post-423962","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-bayern-munich-alumni","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-general","12":"tag-germany"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115203295350607943","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}