The Bundesliga records Harry Kane could break with Bayern Munich this season

“He’s a fantastic player and guy. He’s probably our best player of the season so far and incredibly important for us.”

Those phrases weren’t about Harry Kane however from the mouth of Bayern Munich’s new talisman. According to the England captain, Leroy Sane has been behind Bayern’s prolific begin to the season. Almost everybody else would credit score Kane himself.

Each outing for Kane invariably brings one other objective and one other document. When gamers exhaust the traditional slew of superlatives – Heidenheim supervisor Frank Schmidt could solely muster: “Just the way he plays, his game is that of a great player” – the trendy tendency is to quantify their greatness with more and more obscure statistics.

The Bundesliga, with a historical past of rigorous information and figures since its comparatively late inception in 1963, has no scarcity of detailed milestones for Kane to surpass.

Here are simply a few of the records that the common-or-garden strike can declare within the coming months.

Kane’s Bayern profession started with a false begin within the German Supercup. After the 3-0 drubbing dished out by RB Leipzig, Thomas Tuchel fretted: “I’m just sorry for Harry Kane. He probably thinks we haven’t trained for four weeks.”

However, the “Kane effect” that Tuchel predicted has been prevalent since his top-flight debut. After seemingly each spherical of Bundesliga matches, Kane has claimed one other document by scoring extra targets than some other participant at this stage of the season.

A brace towards Heidenheim took his tally to an unprecedented 17 targets throughout the primary 11 weeks of a season. There are nonetheless 23 matchdays left, giving Kane at the least 23 extra records to assert.

Kane’s final Premier League hat-trick got here towards a Southampton group managed by Mauricio Pellegrino. The former Tottenham Hotspur talisman racked up eight trebles in England’s high flight however registered his closing treble in 2017.

Now, as Thomas Muller joked, he’s plundering so many hat-tricks he might not have any room left in his resort suite. Kane already has three Bundesliga balls dotted round his room – which might be large enough at £10,000-per-night.

The German definition of a hat-trick is infamously harsh – no different participant, teammate or opponent, can rating in between the three targets, which all must arrive in the identical half. But utilizing the common standards of any three targets in the identical sport, the document for Bundesliga hat-tricks in a single season stands at simply 5. Kane is greater than midway in the direction of a milestone collectively shared by Robert Lewandowski (2020/21) and Mario Gomez (2010/11),

If Kane have been to set his sights past three targets, he could be chasing down Dieter Muller. The former FC Koln ahead scored six targets in his facet’s 7-2 thumping of Werder Bremen in 1977.

Muller’s double treble – which included an unprecedented 4 headers – is unmatched, though there was room for enchancment. “I could have even scored two more,” Muller remarked years later, “I can still remember the chances I threw away.”

Kane has solely ever scored as many as 4 targets as soon as in his skilled profession. However, he racked up that quartet on the finish of the 2016/17 season, when Spurs had nothing to play for however whereas he chased down Romelu Lukaku. Kane duly gained that 12 months’s Premier League Golden Boot. If a document is in his sights, Kane will go for it.

The much-cherished winter break within the Bundesliga splits the season in two; the Hinrunde and the Ruckrunde.

Kane, after forging his means by the Premier League the place the fixtures solely enhance over the festive interval, won’t have to depart something within the tank as Bayern cost in the direction of the midway level.

Lewandowski boasts the document for many targets within the first half of the season with 22 – Kane already has 17. Bayern’s closing 5 league video games of 2023 ought to supply the Englishman ample alternative to break the Pole’s tally.

Immediately after the November worldwide break, Bayern are up towards the Bundesliga’s backside two; Koln and Union Berlin. In reality, Stuttgart – who can boast Serhou Guirassy, the striker closest to Kane within the objective charts with 15 – are Bayern’s solely upcoming opponents contained in the division’s high six.

Bayern Munich’s remaining Bundesliga fixtures in 2023

West Germany icon Uwe Seeler holds the document for many targets in a debut Bundesliga season with 30 however there may be an asterisk subsequent to that accolade. Seeler, cruelly dubbed “the fat man” from a younger age, had been the figurehead of Hamburg’s assault for the most effective a part of a decade by 1963 but had no organised league to show his skills.

Once the Bundesliga was belatedly fashioned in 60 years in the past, Seeler was topped the inaugural Torjägerkanone (high scorer).

Klaas-Jan Huntelaar virtually broke Seeler’s document throughout his maiden marketing campaign in Germany with Schalke in 2010/11, however simply fell shy with 29 targets. Kane simply must common one objective each 148 minutes to break Seeler’s excessive watermark.

English gamers do not all the time make for the most effective travellers. When Luther Blissett joined AC Milan, he lamented: “No matter how much money you have here, you can’t seem to get Rice Krispies.”

Tony Woodcock managed to find an appropriate breakfast whereas racking up 39 Bundesliga targets throughout two spells with Koln. “The game wasn’t better or worse,” the previous Nottingham Forest ahead remembered, “it was just different.”

No different Englishman has been in a position to match Woodcock’s glut, with Jadon Sancho (38), Kevin Keegan (32) and Jude Bellingham (12) the one different ex-pats to break double digits previous to Kane’s arrival.

In the ninetieth minute of the ultimate sport of the season, Lewandowski had performed it. For many years, Muller’s return of 40 targets in a single Bundesliga marketing campaign – which solely contains 34 video games – from 1971/72 was a document that may seemingly by no means be crushed.

Just the 12 months earlier than, Lewandowski had known as the feat “impossible”. But the celebs aligned throughout a wonderful 2020/21 marketing campaign for LewanGOALski. Three years on, Kane is on the right track to do the unimaginable as effectively.

With 17 targets from his first 11 league video games, a crude and extremely unscientific projection that has caught the general public’s consideration predicts Kane to attain round 52 targets this season.

Kane is considerably over-performing in entrance of objective, scoring round six targets greater than Opta’s xG mannequin would anticipate (through FBref) – however ending sizzling streaks can final a complete season. While it’s extremely unlikely Kane will hit the half-century mark, he might be a part of the choose 40 membership.

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