While Kane has navigated his career like a man who always has another season, his England teammate acts like this is his last
England's Harry Kane celebrates with team-mate Jude Bellingham after scoring their side's third goal of the game during the UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying match at Wembley Stadium. PA Photo. Photograph: John Walton/PA WireThere were a few tourists from Madrid taking selfies outside the Allianz Arena at Monday lunchtime and, as footballing pilgrimages go, this is one you really have to want.
Call it old-school appeal, call it romance. Bellingham, so goes the popular mythology, is the guy who turned down the bright lights of the petrostates for the timeless white of Real Madrid. Kane is the cynical trophy-chaser who moved to the guaranteed trophy club and somehow failed to win a trophy. This, then, is a story about timing and fortune, how to plot out a career in this most ruthless of businesses, the choices you make and when you make them.
Meanwhile, in Kane’s world, the horizons were beginning to narrow. If Bellingham was adamant about moving on and moving up, then Kane was equally steadfast about where his career was going. He wanted to taste glory with Tottenham. He wanted to hone and improve himself into a record-breaking, one-club Premier League titan.
In hindsight his fate was sealed in the summer of 2018, when he chained himself to a six-year contract shortly before winning the Golden Boot and becoming one of the hottest properties in world football. It was the romantic move. But it was also the moment when the doors began to close, when other futures began to evaporate. Of course he can still thrive and compete and win. But those crucial wasted years between 26 and 30 can never be unwasted.
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