Harry Kane has hit back at comments from former Bayern Munich, Liverpool and Germany midfielder Dietmar Hamann who implied the England captain does not score enough goals in big games.

Kane has scored 64 goals and contributed 21 assists in 62 appearances for Bayern since signing for Bundesliga giants from Tottenham in 2023. He received the award Torjägerkanone award after scoring 36 goals in his debut season in the German league in 2023-2024.

This season, Kane’s 20 goals in 17 games were boosted by hat-tricks against Holsten Kiel and Stuttgart, as well as a four-goal haul against Dinamo Zagreb. Although he scored in Bayern’s 4–1 defeat to Barcelona, ​​Kane failed to find the back of the net in matches against Bayer Leverkusen, Aston Villa, Benfica and Eintracht Frankfurt.

Hamann had said in October that Kane “was not brought in to score a hat-trick against Darmstadt.”

Kane has failed to win a major trophy in his senior professional career so far. His arrival in Germany coincided with Bayern’s first failed title bid since 2012, when Leverkusen topped the Bundesliga.

The 31-year-old, Spurs and England’s all-time top scorer, became the fastest player to score 50 goals in the Bundesliga, eclipsing former record holder Erling Haaland with a hat-trick in Bayern’s 3-0 win over Augsburg. on Friday.

“Yes, maybe it was taken a bit out of context,” Kane said at a press conference on Monday. “I think if you look at my goals last season against some of the bigger teams: Dortmund away, Stuttgart – all those kinds of games… Yeah, maybe it’s taken a bit out of context, but look, I’m trying to score.” In every match I try to help the team in every match. Obviously this week is a really big week and we know it.

“As a striker in the team and a goalscorer in the team, I definitely want to help the team by scoring goals. But as always, I always feel that my performances are more than just goals, both with and without the ball. So if we get three wins and I don’t score, I’ll be happy and the coach will be happy, so that’s the most important thing.”

Kane was responding to a question about a Sky Germany column written after Bayern’s Champions League defeat to Villa on October 2, in which Hamann said he remains unconvinced of Kane’s ability on the biggest stages.

“Harry Kane had a personally sobering evening in Birmingham – besides the defeat,” Hamann wrote.

“I said after the European Championship last summer that he still has to prove that he is worth the hundred million, even though he scored more than thirty goals last year.

“He wasn’t used to score a hat-trick against Darmstadt. He was used to score against Leverkusen and Aston Villa and to score in the quarter-finals of the Champions League.”

“He has not done that yet. I remain skeptical about the star striker.”

Bayern hosts Paris Saint-Germain at the Allianz Arena on Tuesday in their fifth Champions League match.