"Not brought in to..."

Goal guarantor Kane? Hamann with a tough message

Served: Harry Kane (l.) and Leon Goretzka after the match at Aston Villa.(Bild: AP/ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Harry Kane is scoring goals at FC Bayern Munich like a conveyor belt. But former Champions League winner and TV pundit Didi Hamann is clearly not a big fan of the English star striker.

Kane experienced "a personally sobering evening" in the 1-0 Champions League defeat at Aston Villa on Tuesday. I already said after the European Championship in the summer that he still owes the proof that he is worth the 100 million - even though he scored over 30 goals last year," Hamann writes in his Sky column.

"Not brought in to score a hat-trick against Darmstadt"
In the last two top matches against Bayer Leverkusen (1:1, no shot on goal) and Aston Villa (one shot on goal in the closing stages), the 31-year-old attacker looked like a foreign body. "He wasn't brought in to score a hat-trick against Darmstadt. He was brought in to score against Leverkusen and Aston Villa and to score in the quarter-finals of the Champions League," said Hamann, who remains "skeptical" about the Englishman.

"If I'm so dominant against Leverkusen and Villa, then I expect one of the best players in the business to create a goalscoring opportunity out of nothing in 90 minutes and become dangerous. You don't get that impression at the moment," wrote Hamann.

Harry Kane(Bild: AP/Rui Vieira)

Bayern face another tough opponent in the Bundesliga on Sunday with second-placed Frankfurt. Will Kane prove chief critic Didi Hamann wrong? It will be interesting to see.