Simon Jordan has dismissed the idea that Harry Kane would have failed at Bayern Munich if he doesn't win a trophy.
The England captain has scored an incredible 28 goals during his first season but there are increasing doubts over the club's trophy chances.
Bayern are five points behind leaders Bayer Leverkusen in the Bundesliga table and are 1-0 down against Lazio after the first leg of their Champions League last 16 tie. They're also out of the DFB-Pokal.
Despite his quality, Kane is yet to win silverware during his career and a move to the German giants was seen as a chance to change this.
However, even though Bayern could end up trophyless for the first time since 2009, Jordan has jumped to Kane's defence and insisted the club overall will have underachieved.
«If Harry Kane scores 30-odd goals a season and they finish second in the Bundesliga with nothing, he won't be considered a failure, he'll be considered part of a team that failed. Whereas the manager will take the responsibility for the failing team,» Jordan said.
«So I think the characterisation of the conversation, 'Who's under great pressure?', well Harry Kane will be under his own pressure because he's made a move to Bayern Munich.
»The real reason behind that move was Tottenham had one season to go, he wasn't going to sign a new contract and they got offered silly money.
«So Daniel [Levy] took it and Bayern Munich were the only people prepared to pay that silly money in terms of £90million or whatever it was for a player that's got one year left on his contract, that's coming to a stage in his career where one might consider big transfer fees are not available for clubs.
»So the move was really engineered by economics, Harry would have expected, I anticipate,
Read on talksport.com