Harry Kane's Bayern Munich nightmare takes another horror turn ...
HARRY KANE'S time at Bayern Munich has sunk to a new low.
The England captain joined the Bundesliga giants to win trophies but has fallen short on every single front.
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But after domestic and Champions League failures, Kane's season has now got even worse as Bayern Munich finished third in the Bundesliga.
Thomas Tuchel's side lost their final game of the season despite being 2-0 up inside six minutes.
Hoffenheim staged a remarkable comeback to win 4-2 as former Leicester City flop Andrej Kramaric bagged a hat-trick.
Kane, 30, could only watch on from the stands as he was ruled out of the match with a back problem.
To make matters worse for the striker, VfB Stuttgart thumped Borussia Monchengladbach 4-0 to snatch second place.
Bayern and Kane will now have to settle for third place, the club's worst league finish since 2011.
The former Tottenham Hotspur star would have been hoping for so much more after completing his £104million transfer last summer.
The club saw their 12-year grip on the Bundesliga title snatched away by the invincible Bayer Leverkusen.
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In the Champions League, Bayern did reach the semi-finals but could not find a way past Real Madrid.
The DFB-Pokal did not spring any joy either as third-tier minnows Saarbruken knocked out Bayern back in November.
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Due to finishing third, there is no chance that Bayern will be in the German Super Cup at the start of next season.
This means that Kane will have to wait until May 2025 to have a chance of winning his first-ever club trophy.
On a personal level, Kane has excelled since moving to Germany.
He finished the season with an impressive 44 goals and 12 assists in 45 appearances in all competitions.
He will be hoping to recover from his injury in time for the Euros, which will be his last chance of a trophy before next season.
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Michail Antonio's strike should be the wake up call football chiefs need... frazzled stars need a rest
By Andrew Dillon
WHEN highly paid footballers moan about their workload, most people roll their eyes, mutter about having a ‘real job’ then get on with their day.
But there is something about Michail Antonio’s concerning revelations about his mental health that strike a different chord.
Charismatic, engaging, outwardly confident and built like a prize bull, surely nothing can touch such a successful athlete with a life most young men dream of?
So for West Ham’s 67-goal, all-time leading Premier League scorer, a veteran of more than 16 seasons in the game, to admit he has cracked, is a big deal.
One of the drivers behind the 34-year-old striker’s reluctant advance into therapy is the now relentless football calendar, coupled with the similarly incessant levels of scrutiny.
Trying to put the ball in the net for a top-flight team is a minor part of the job.
Simply wondering where your passport is, or feeling secure enough to turn on your phone without receiving 50 gigabytes of abuse, is taking over from the role you have been hired to do.
Antonio revealed he is now divorced, and what’s behind it is his business.
But one of his old team-mates, Robert Snodgrass, once told me how he spent an entire season commuting from Essex to Aston Villa while on loan, forcing him to eat at motorway service stations en route.
His reward for trying to be a good husband and dad by being at home each night?
To be singled out for putting on weight by then Hammers manager Manuel Pellegrini.
It’s ironic that Jamaica international Antonio chose to air his deepest-held secrets on the High Performance podcast, because his struggle to cope with the “constant” of football has significantly harmed his game.Yes, top footballers are paid vast amounts but are we getting to a situation where that is not really the point?
The latest cry for help from someone who should be enjoying every waking moment could not be better timed.
Just 24 hours earlier, Fifa’s announcement that the spectre of the dreaded ‘39th game’ is being revived must send a shudder through every Premier League dressing room.
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