Ten Hag will be reminded of what could have been when he faces Bayern Munich’s record signing in Champions League
for Kane, despite him being the player that the manager, Erik ten Hag, most wanted and in the position he was most desperate to fill.
How is the decision looking today? An unfair question, perhaps, posed with the benefit of hindsight. But one that felt unavoidable as Kane sat in the Allianz Arena media theatre and looked ahead to hisdebut for Bayern on Wednesday night. That it is against United was written in the stars. United’s position on Kane does bear scrutiny. And yet it also feels unsatisfactory. Both things can be true. They were wary of a protracted pursuit and one that ultimately could have been futile, seeing them miss out on other signings, forced to scramble at the end of the window, their summer in ruins. In a sense they were burned by the Frenkie de Jong chase of the previous summer when Ten Hag’s No 1 target stayed put at Barcelona.
United did not feel that a move for Kane made economic sense and, also mindful of financial fair play, they decided early in the summer not to go for him. It was better, they reasoned, to get three good players in relatively quickly to fill the main problem areas – goalkeeper, No 8 and centre-forward – rather than having Kane plus one other. Hence the deals for André Onana, Mason Mount and Rasmus Højlund, with a bit left over for Sofyan Amrabat.
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