Harry Kane, the language barrier and the Lederhosen

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Harry Kane, the language barrier and the Lederhosen
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Not speaking German isn't an issue and Munich is cosmopolitan. Getting used to the invasive scrutiny of life at Bayern is another thing...

While team meetings are held in German and everyone is encouraged to learn it — Bayern ripped out the simultaneous translation booths then-manager Jurgen Klinsmann had installed at the club HQ in 2009 — current boss Thomas Tuchel, who spoke excellent English during his recent spell in charge at, will often repeat key phrases in it and in French during one-to-one talks to ensure that everybody gets the message.

Football aside, it won’t be hard for the Kane family to blend into a city that has become very cosmopolitan. There are 11 international schools in Munich with English as their first language. The luxury-brand shops of Maximilianstrasse in the city centre have multilingual sales assistants catering for a mostly international audience and almost everyone they can expect to encounter in daily life, from petrol-station personnel to supermarket cashiers, is likely to speak serviceable English. On top of that, Bayern’s player liaison department will sort things out.

The bigger challenge will be getting to grips with the different footballing culture at Bayern. Because of their unique status in Germany, a kind of ‘

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