England captain Harry Kane has joined German champions Bayern Munich on a four-year deal, ending his record-breaking career at Tottenham.

The striker has signed a deal worth more than 110m euros (£95m) and could make his debut in Saturday's German Super Cup game against RB Leipzig.

Kane, 30, leaves Premier League Spurs as their all-time top scorer with 280 goals in 435 appearances.

But how has he gone from a stand-in goalkeeper to one of the best strikers in the world? We take a closer look at his journey.

(The stories and voices were gathered by BBC Sport, Ryan Baldi and BBC Radio 5 Live)

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With 280 goals in just 435 appearances for Tottenham and a record-breaking 58 goals for England, Kane has already established himself as one of the world’s best strikers.

But how has the 30-year-old gone from being a six-year-old stand-in goalkeeper to one of the most feared forwards in the world?

We have spoken to those involved in his journey and recount some of the stories along the way.

It all began for Kane as a six-year-old for Ridgeway Rovers, a youth club based in north-east London that also produced David Beckham.

He turned up for their annual trials and the rest, as they say, is history - although not before a very brief stint as a goalkeeper.

Dave Bricknell, Ridgeway coach at the time, said: "This six-year-old boy turns up at Loughton Rugby Club, and we're doing a little shooting session, and I ask for a lad who can go in goal.

"This little boy puts his hand up and says: 'I'll go in goal.' So we give him some gloves, and he performs heroics - makes some fantastic saves.

"I think, yes, I've got a goalkeeper here - because goalkeepers are very hard to find, particularly at six. They do it for five seconds and they want to be a centre-forward.

"Then I get told he's not a goalkeeper, he's on pitch. So I think ok, and I stick him on pitch. And he's scoring loads of goals, on a very long pitch as well, so he ends up being our striker.”

For two years, Kane couldn’t stop scoring for Ridgeway Rovers – earning him a move into Arsenal’s youth set-up.

Bricknell said: “He could see a pass, he could play. He was very, very good at an early age. He could strike a ball like an 11-year-old even at the age of six.

"But Harry's best attribute was his great self-belief. He had good touch, but his main attribute was that he had major confidence in himself.

"He would score lots of goals, but if it went wide and he didn't score, he wouldn't worry about it - he'd just go and get his next chance and try to score again."

Luke Robinson, Kane's former school friend and Ridgeway team-mate, said: "He had a great sense of humour, we always had a laugh, but he was always driven.

"He used to keep himself to himself, he had his goals.

"Anywhere from 30 yards, he knew where the goal was. I remember we were in the London Cup and were losing 5-1, Harry scored five and we went through."

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It was not all plain-sailing for the Tottenham man, suffering rejection at an early age as he was released by Arsenal aged 10 - despite being second top scorer behind Benik Afobe - and then turned down by Watford.

Aged 11, he was given one more chance – this time at his local club Tottenham and with his school team at Chingford Foundation.

"Aged 11 Harry was technically very gifted, with a great first touch, and a very clever player; he always knew where to go, right from an early stage," says Mark Leadon, Kane's PE teacher.

"He was also a very good cricketer - he opened the bowling from year seven to 10 and batted at four or five. But he loved his football. He was never a prima donna, and he would always put a shift in. Some students think they're better than others, but not him.

"Yet what came through more than anything else was his determination to succeed. He's always wanted to make a mark - and from a very early age you could see how driven he was."

Between the age of 11 to 17, Kane progressed through Tottenham's youth set-up - until he was sent out on loan to League One Leyton Orient in January 2011.

During that time, he signed scholarship terms with Spurs on his 16th birthday.

Alex Inglethorpe, formerly Tottenham youth team coach, said: "When I joined Spurs as under-18 coach, Harry was aged 13. Part of my remit was to work with the under-14s, so every Wednesday evening we'd get together.

"I'd like to say he was the gold medallist in the group and that we'd all spot he was going to be the fantastic player - but I'd be lying. He probably wasn't even on the podium.

"He had a lovely technique - an ability to pass and receive and shoot - but if there was something that endeared him to you it was that he was very, very low maintenance.

"It became fairly evident when Harry became a scholar that he was someone who could finish. He wasn't great with his head and he wasn't great on his left side, but he was his own best coach.

"That boy at 13, who didn't have everything, taught himself an awful lot more in those five years that followed. He was very aware of what he didn't have and very aware of what might stop him - and he was very determined to make that right."

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So, after rejection by Arsenal and fighting against the odds at Tottenham, Kane was finally ready for senior football, aged 17.

But it wasn't straight into the Premier League - far from it - as he spent the next four seasons on loan in the lower leagues at Leyton Orient, Millwall, Norwich and then Leicester.

He would finally earn his big chance with Tottenham at the age of 21.

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Kane's first loan spell was at League One Leyton Orient, where he scored five goals in nine starts.

"Harry was not like other Premier League players, where you feel they're going to come in 'Billy Big Time', a bit of a Charlie boy," says former Orient team-mate Scott McGleish.

"He wanted the experience of learning what I call men's football. He could play the 18s and the 21s, but he wanted to learn - and from the word go he was ready to fight for his place.

"In training, he was willing to learn from everybody, and even more importantly willing to just knuckle down and work hard.

"You could see in training and subsequently the matches that he had ability and a desire to go further, but you're still looking like a young 17-year-old: very slight, still needing to physically develop, not the quickest but technically excellent."

Kane's form at Orient earned him a move up the footballing ladder to Championship Millwall in January 2012, where he joined their ultimately successful relegation fight.

Millwall's then veteran defender Alan Dunne remembers a moment in training that stood out. "It was a copycat of Marco van Basten's goal at Euro '88," he said.

"It was probably the best goal I've seen in training in my time. If I'd scored a goal like that, I would have run off waving my shirt around my head, but it didn't faze him. It was like it was expected.

"I've seen a lot players come to the Den and freeze, because within five minutes they're being called names that they've never heard before and they can't cope with that pressure.

"Harry had that in the back of his head, because it's always spoken about when young players come in. But it didn't faze him - he was a focused lad, he was confident in his ability. It was a challenge to him, and a challenge that he rose to."

"I used to sit next to Harry in the changing room," says former Millwall defender Darren Ward. "After training every day, he used to sit on his spot and just stay there. You're thinking, 'What's he doing? What's he looking at?' He wouldn't move for a while.

"One day someone asked him, 'What are you doing Harry?' And he said: 'I'm just thinking about what I could improve on in training, how it went, what went right, what didn't'.

"Whenever I looked at him after training, he'd be sitting there, going over it in his head. That is a player who takes care of his football. He means business. And he was doing that at 18. That's incredible."

Nine goals in 26 starts helped win over the anti-Spurs Millwall faithful. Kane was voted the club's young player of the season and helped saved them from relegation.

"If there's one word to describe his finishing, it was immaculate," said Dunne.

"People say immaculate isn't really a football word, but he would find each bottom corner the same time, every time. No scuffs. It wasn't top corners, it was bottom corner, bottom corner, bottom corner."

Ward added: "Did I think he would break into the Tottenham first team, yes, but to be one of the top three strikers in the world? I don't think anyone would have expected that. I don't think you would have said he'd be where he is now."

Another two loan spells followed, one cut short by injury at Norwich at the start of the 2012-13 season, before spending the second part of the campaign at Leicester - mostly sitting on the bench with Jamie Vardy.

He then spent that summer with England at the Under-20 World Cup, a campaign which saw him score once as the Three Lions were knocked out at the group stage.

Peter Taylor, England under-20 coach in that summer of 2013, said: "The impression I got was firstly what a nice boy you are, and secondly that you're not going to have regrets at the end of your career, because you're going to give it everything you have to be a player.

"I've dealt with League One and League Two players, and you might have to keep reminding them about things. Harry you only had to tell once. He's a very intelligent player."

In July 2013, Swindon Town spent a week of their pre-season in Portugal's Algarve. There, the League One side enjoyed warm-weather training and played a couple of fixtures against a Tottenham XI made up mostly of young players.

Ward had just joined Swindon from Millwall, and in the tunnel before one of the friendlies spotted his former team-mate Kane. An informal relationship with Spurs had seen a handful of young players arrive on loan, with Grant Hall, Ryan Mason and Alex Pritchard all set to spend 2013-14 at the Wiltshire club. Rumour had it Kane would follow.

"Wardy, they want me to go on loan again," Kane confided. "I want to stay here. I'm good enough to get in this first team."

For most of the 2013-14 season, though, Kane continued to struggle to make a meaningful first-team impact at Tottenham.

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His big Tottenham breakthrough finally came on 7 April 2014, just three months shy of his 21st birthday.

Andre Villas-Boas had been sacked as Spurs boss, replaced by his former youth coach Tim Sherwood, and it was then Kane got his Premier League debut - scoring against Sunderland.

"It didn't feel a gamble at all to give Harry that start. It was almost overdue to be honest," says Sherwood.

"Roberto Soldado was in front of him in the team, and nobody wanted Roberto to do well more than me - but every single day in training Harry was outperforming him.

"I was the biggest believer Harry Kane ever had, because I used to think he was a mix between Teddy Sheringham and Alan Shearer, both players I played with. It's a big accolade, but I think it's the right one."

Kane made it three goals in three games when he followed up his Sunderland strike by scoring against West Bromwich Albion and Fulham, as he ended the season as first-choice striker.

"You have to have the bravery of Tim Sherwood and Les Ferdinand to put him in the team ahead of Soldado, who was a Spain international at the time," says Chris Ramsey, the Queens Park Rangers technical director who was Tottenham's head of player development at the time. "It showed the confidence the club had in him.

"When we took charge, there was talk of him going back on loan, and he said, 'No, I'm not going. I don't want to go'.

"He backed himself, knowing that we rated him, and that if he kept on doing what he was doing - and the first team at that time weren't doing what they needed to do - that we'd play him."

The following season Kane, who represented England at all age groups, quickly proved his breakthrough was no fluke.

And - after hitting 29 goals by the end of March in the 2014-15 season - he earned his first senior England call-up as he was named in Roy Hodgson's squad to face Lithuania.

It took him just 79 seconds, three touches and one header to mark his international debut with a goal.

Few could have predicted what was to follow in an England shirt though...

Now, Kane's love affair with Tottenham is over - after almost leaving for Man City in the summer of 2021.

All that is missing from his career is the trophies.

"One thing Harry's got that's the same with all the great players - the Messis and Ronaldos - he wants to play, because he wants to score," says Ramsey.

"I definitely would have said he was good enough to play in the Premier League, good enough to play for England. Good enough to become the phenomenon that he has? I can't say I would have predicted that.

"But if anybody had the will to become world class, I definitely would have said it was him."