The 26-year-old turned down a new contract at boyhood club Chelsea in the summer, opting to drop down to the Championship to join Queens Park Rangers on a free transfer.
It brought an end to an 18-year stint at Stamford Bridge, one in which the experienced full-back failed to make a single first team-appearance.
That isn’t a topic Kane likes to mull over, at least for the time being, his full focus is on his new chapter at QPR.
Walking away from Stamford Bridge was a tough call for Kane, but one he knew he had to make.
Eight loan spells had taken its toll on the defender. He now wanted to be somewhere he could call ‘home’ – making the short journey across west London to do just that.
Kane, who has already racked up 150 senior appearances in the Dutch top flight, Championship and League One, had four offers on the table immediately after leaving Chelsea.
It proved to be a waiting game for Kane though, with Middlesbrough and Hull – the latter where he spent the entirety of the 2018/19 season on loan – among the interested suitors.
talkSPORT.com also understands a move to Derby – who were managed by Frank Lampard at that time – was a serious possibility at one stage.
That particular deal hinged on whether or not Jayden Bogle left the club amid Premier League interest, but the youngster remained and nothing got finalised.
Evidently, he was not short on offers – with newly-promoted Sheffield United also having a long-standing interest in the defender.
The Blades had an offer accepted for Kane in January, but the deal dragged on and he ended up staying on the Tigers’ books for the duration of the season.
Kane was intent on taking his time over his next move – a ‘career-defining’ one in his words – but one thing was for sure it wouldn’t be another temporary solution.
That was something he made clear the first day he joined Hull back in July 2018.
Fast forward a year on and after another productive loan spell, it was time for Kane to make some big decisions.
It was now mid to late July and by his own admission the former England Under-19 international was getting increasingly ‘frustrated’ his long-term future had yet to be resolved.
That’s when the phone rang. Former Rangers and Brentford boss Warburton reached out to Kane to see if he’d be interested in coming to QPR. Kane liked what he heard and the pair duly met up soon after.
It was during this same period the 57-year-old pulled the plug on a season-long loan deal for highly-rated Chelsea full-back Dujon Sterling – something talkSPORT.com revealed at that time.
A matter of days later and Kane was a QPR player. So why did he turn his back on a potential opportunity to remain in the Premier League in favour of the Rs?
“It was one of the easiest decisions I’ve ever had to make in football,” he said. “I got a call off Mark [Warburton] one day out of the blue.
“He made me feel wanted straight away and asked if we could arrange to meet as soon as possible. For a manager to do that goes a long way – you don’t forget those things.
“It’s normally always a director or an agent dictating everything in terms of initial meetings, so it was refreshing – especially being a free agent at the time – to have a manager contact me.
“By doing that he showed me just how much he wanted me at this football club.
“I had meetings with managers at other clubs, but I just felt that something else would be out there by biding my time.
“Yes, there was Premier League interest too, but it was about what club was the right fit for me at this stage of my career.
“When I met Mark my point was proven. I knew that QPR was going to be the club that I’d eventually join.”
He continued: “It was a honest conversation between two men. Mark spoke about what he wanted to, the club’s structure, style of play and everything like that that – so it sold itself really.
“I wanted to go somewhere where I felt the most comfortable as a person, and the manager’s methods and ideology were the same as mine – hence QPR fitted the bill.
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