Harry Kane's record century of goals for Bayern

0:22Ryan Hunn: Another day, another stadio, back to back.

0:24Musa Okwonga: We're going back to back. Back to back stadios.

0:28Ryan Hunn: Hi everyone, welcome to a Tuesday episode of Stadio. A very special one. I'm Ryan, that's Musa. Right here.

0:36Musa Okwonga: You can't see me, but I'm right here.

0:39Ryan Hunn: Yeah, we hope everyone's staying safe, staying well. As we mentioned on yesterday's episode, we recorded a chat with our pal, Seb Stafford-Bloor, about Harry Kane reaching 100 goals for Bayern in record time. And because there was so much football to get through on Monday, we thought we'd put it up today. People listen to this on the free feed. don't forget you can listen to this episode in full ad free along with all the other episodes of Stadio in full ad free go to patreon.com forward slash stadio you can also sign up for the Stadio Social Club if you want to get access to the Discord and loads of other perks and another reminder for London listeners come and see us at the Southbank Centre December 4th tickets are on sale and the link to buy is in the description it's the first of a quarterly run of shows that we're going to be doing at the Southbank Centre you can also buy tickets for the one in March so if you want to go and do that go and do that any other admin for you Musa Akwanga no I'm good finished any books this week

1:29Musa Okwonga: not this week no not this week not this week no no no have you finished

1:33Ryan Hunn: hang on have you have you finished a book yeah yeah third draft

1:36Musa Okwonga: third draft

1:36Ryan Hunn: yeah it's off

1:37Musa Okwonga: it's off yeah yeah it's gone off

1:39Ryan Hunn: I think that's breaking news fingers crossed yeah fingers crossed I should have bleeped that out alright let's should we get on to our chat with Seb yeah let's do it on the weekend Friday night Harry Kane became the fastest player in the era of the top five leagues in Europe. Became the fastest player to reach 100 goals for a club. We're going to talk about that and the rest of some Bundesliga stuff from this weekend. Seb Stafford Laws here. Hey mate. Hey mate. How you doing?

2:05Seb Stafford-Bloor: Alright thanks man. How are you? Doing well. Long weekend of football but an enjoyable one. Yeah? Yeah. Just finished watching Union House Vibre before I came on. Just fun. Good game. 0-0 but still a really good game. And yeah engaging. You know I'm one of those really tense nil-nils not a kind of a dull one really tense could have gone either way and probably half-fars best performance since um since being promoted back which is really great to see good point for them definitely definitely away there absolutely big news of the weekend i suppose apart from the mayhem at gladback saturday night at gladback yeah uh was harry kane becoming the

2:41Ryan Hunn: fastest player to score or to reach 100 goals in a top five league he did it on friday when Bayern beat Werder Bremen. He's got a brace and he's done it in 104 games. Wild. Can you give us a summary of his achievement doing it at Bayern so quickly? Yeah, it's an interesting one to contextualise, right?

3:00Seb Stafford-Bloor: Because I think the record is the fastest player to score 100 goals for a club in the top five leagues since 1992. So since the Premier League started and this era of top five leagues in inverted commas began. And the tricky part of it is it's quite an easy one to dismiss isn't it because i think if you if you were just to see that in black and white you'd say well yeah but he's playing for by munich and therefore you know that's a steady supply of goals and they're just going to bounce in off you and it's pretty easy but i think we all know that's not really the case and i think if you dig into kane's performance at a time when this is not a vintage by munich team by by any means this is not this is not guardiola's Bayern Munich um this is not a team loaded with peak era stars um at the full extent of their ability and Kane has done a couple of things Kane's allowed Bayern to reinvent on the fly a little bit build a little bit around him certainly his goal scoring last season allowed company to have a far easier season than he might have done having moved from Burnley to Bayern Munich which is like going from you know earth to mars in football terms really and i think it's easier if you break it down into three so season one he's just what he is kane is a is a sort of a metronomic goal scorer season two his role expands so that he's more of a playmaker a little bit more um recognizable with the the player that he was at tottenham um contributing a little bit more from deep his position became a little bit deeper wasn't quite as much of a penalty box player and season three where he is so woven into what Bayern Munich are trying to do offensively you're even seeing him picking up possession between the center half straight from Neuer goalkeeper and not just contributing in the sense of playing those wide cross fields that he does so well and playing a final pass and creating chances but actually doing things like alleviating pressure and being an outball deep in his own zone and against strong opponents there was 10 minutes at the end of that Chelsea game in the Champions League where he was doing exactly that it was kind of just a pressure valve and all of that stuff has existed alongside just a ridiculous beat

5:15Musa Okwonga: goal scoring have we seen that have we actually seen a footballer do as much I don't know if it's selfless work or work yeah that is not in your inbox as a as a center forward and also an output

5:27Seb Stafford-Bloor: at this rate i don't know if we have i i think that's a really good point because i was thinking the other day when i was looking at the list of players who are on the kind of sort of ranked within that record that we're talking about i was thinking you know some great players here but how many of them who are now retired for instance were able to go through any sort of reinvention in their 30s to do the selfless stuff because ordinarily when you when you're dealing with a kind of a high volume center forward you just assume as they ease into their 30s they become more static they become like one of those sort of um siege weapons that you have to wheel into place you just push them towards the penalty box and and just you know hope they land enough punches really um not to mix what three four different metaphors in the same sentence sorry well no because i think look before i mean christian on a sunday no no but christian and aldo has had a

6:17Musa Okwonga: second wind i would say i know some will say it's al nasa but you still have a we need a good amount of fitness to still flourish in that league um chris donna ronaldo it felt like maybe even 10 years ago was edging into that phase i think he slightly escaped it now to an extent but that is the more traditional path 11 dosk at barcelona you know there's no shame in that

6:35Seb Stafford-Bloor: that's actually it's what you should do in a way totally yeah if you're if you're if you're barcelona you don't want levin doski um re-ratioing the parts of his game you want him as the finisher and you want him to to to benefit from the work that's going on around him for all those wonderful creative playmakers whereas i don't know i i think i think the deal with kane is that bayon byna getting very good but for the vast majority of his time at bayern munich they haven't been anything special and yet he's allowed them to you know to to to win a title to have a puncher's chance in the champions league a couple of times and i think this season now to be um not a favorite but among them I think

7:19Ryan Hunn: it reminds me when Lewandowski really dragged Bayern to a title but also maybe doing the work of like a number 10 as well

7:30Seb Stafford-Bloor: it's quite late in his Bayern career that though

7:32Musa Okwonga: yes yes

7:33Seb Stafford-Bloor: it felt it always felt with Lewandowski as if that side of the game didn't occur to him or maybe it was just never necessary because that was his role he was the component piece in a team that functions so well He didn't need to do anything else.

7:48Ryan Hunn: But also, I don't think he has... I mean, he can link up Lewandowski. I don't think he's as skilled and all-around footballer as Harry Kane is. And I think that's what makes it wild about Harry Kane's goal-scoring record, though, is because he does do all of this other work and he does contribute in so many other areas of the pitch. And yet he's done... He scored 100 goals for Bayern in 32 games fewer than Lewandowski did. Which is unbelievable.

8:12Seb Stafford-Bloor: And Lewandowski's ratio was unbelievable. and you know consider who Lewandowski was playing with you know like that that rare talent there's a there was a moment a couple of days a couple of weeks ago that really summed this up and and characterizes what I think of the way Kane's playing at the moment it was maybe the 85th minute against Chelsea and he received the ball maybe 20 yards off his own goal line tight to the touchline on this side Allen's arena and he cruifed turned Trevor Chalaba who sort of crumpled had his ankles broken figuratively and then he carried the ball 70 yards up the touchline and bought a free kick in the Chelsea corner you're thinking you're a 32 year old centre forward and you're an old 32 because you're a big body player whose injury record is better than assumed and who is much more durable than kind of lazy assumptions depicted as being and yet there's still that kind of appetite for the game

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