{"id":33857,"date":"2026-08-19T18:05:59","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T18:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/harry-kane-england-striker-plays-down-returning-to-premier-league-in-future-to-break-alan-shearer-record\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T18:05:59","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T18:05:59","slug":"harry-kane-england-striker-plays-down-returning-to-premier-league-in-future-to-break-alan-shearer-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/harry-kane-england-striker-plays-down-returning-to-premier-league-in-future-to-break-alan-shearer-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Kane: England striker plays down returning to Premier League in future to break Alan Shearer record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Harry Kane says &#8220;the itch isn&#8217;t there as much anymore&#8221; to one day return to England from Germany and try and break the all-time scoring record in the Premier League.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The striker left <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/teams\/tottenham-hotspur\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Tottenham<\/a> to join Bayern Munich in 2023 having scored 213 goals in the English top flight, 47 goals short of Alan Shearer&#8217;s tally of 260.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kane has been in sensational form for club and country since moving to Munich, and last season hit a total of 73 goals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has entered the final 12 months of the four-year deal he signed after his \u00a386.4m move from Spurs three years ago, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/articles\/c07rlr0yzkvo\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">but is set to begin discussing a new contract at Bayern.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After receiving the Golden Shoe for finishing top scorer in the Bundesliga on Wednesday, the England captain stressed how settled he feels at Bayern.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kane said: &#8220;When I first left, for sure it was something I thought &#8211; I would definitely be coming back. That itch isn&#8217;t there as much anymore. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I am extremely happy here in Munich, it opened my eyes to a totally different world of football outside of England and it has made me appreciate European football even more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I just think the team we have here and the manager, my family is really settled here, it is just about being in the best place possible. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Never say never, but for now I am concentrating on Bayern Munich and we will see what the future holds.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/articles\/clylkxekeleo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harry Kane says &#8220;the itch isn&#8217;t there as much anymore&#8221; to one day return to England from Germany and try and break the all-time scoring record in the Premier League. The striker left Tottenham to join Bayern Munich in 2023 having scored 213 goals in the English top flight, 47 goals short of Alan Shearer&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33859,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33857\/revisions\/33859"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}