Harry Kane is a playmaking genius! Brits Abroad winners & losers as Bayern Munich talisman turns provider while Ivan Toney scores four times after taking down Cristiano Ronaldo in Saudi Arabia

Unlike most of Europe, the Bundesliga has only been through two rounds of fixtures heading into the first international break of the season. Nevertheless, Harry Kane is still running up his stats with Bayern Munich to get a head-start on the competition.

The England captain is bidding to become the first player in history to finish as top scorer for each of their first three seasons in the German top-flight. Exiting August, he is level with team-mate Michael Olise and Borussia Dortmund's Serhou Guirassy with three goals apiece having fired a blank in Bayern's 3-2 win at Bavarian neighbours Augsburg, his 100th appearance for the club.

So, how exactly is Kane a winner from the weekend on a personal level? Well, he showed Germany his multifaceted style is still fruitful, providing two assists to help the champions sprint into a three-goal lead. Firstly, he came up with a delectable cross from the half-space to pick out the run of Serge Gnabry, who nodded the ball back down into the bottom corner to put Bayern ahead. After Luis Diaz doubled the lead in first-half stoppage time, Kane then teed up Olise to run at a haphazard Augsburg backline and convert their third of the afternoon.

Kristijan Jakic and Mert Komur then scored for the hosts to set up a nervy finish, but Vincent Kompany's men held on to seal their second win from two Bundesliga games, and Kane now has more goal contributions (five) than anyone else in the league.

Meanwhile, Bayern have been desperately scouring the transfer market to help find Kane some support and back-up, in part in response to his claims that this is the smallest squad he's ever worked with. Director of sport Max Eberl was hoping to close a loan-to-buy deal for Nicolas Jackson, only for Chelsea to recall him back to London at the eleventh hour after Liam Delap suffered a hamstring injury. Atalanta's Ademola Lookman, who can play on the wing or up top, is another target. Whether Kane gets his wish before Monday's deadline remains to be seen.

You'd be hard pressed to find any English football fan (bar perhaps bitter Manchester United supporters) who isn't rooting for Marcus Rashford to make a success of himself during his loan spell at Barcelona. That hasn't gone quite to plan after three La Liga appearances, though.

The reigning Spanish champions have taken a respectable seven points from nine available, with all of them coming on the road given their inability to return to an unfinished Camp Nou just yet. Rashford, in his three appearances totalling about 90 minutes in total, is yet to register a goal or assist.

His latest blank came on Sunday when Barca's winning start came to an end with a 1-1 draw at Rayo Vallecano, during which the visitors had new goalkeeper Joan Garcia to thank for clinging on for only a point. Rashford was introduced shortly before Fran Perez cancelled out Lamine Yamal's opener, but his only real moment of note came when he strangely had a shot from about 40 yards, with Rayo stopper Augusto Batalla not even far off his line enough to jot it down as a potential lob.

In his post-match press conference, Hansi Flick was critical again of his Barcelona players for not playing with the same team ethic that saw them finish first in La Liga last season: "I think a point was good enough. We don't deserve more. Joan Garcia, Eric [Garcia], and [Andreas] Christensen were good. The problem was in midfield and attack. We made so many mistakes. I'm not happy with my team. We did not play well. We didn't play to our usual sharpness, we didn't dominate as we should have, and we made many mistakes. When you play against a team that plays well, you have to play in different ways, and not make many mistakes, we should have played better."

Despite this underwhelming start to life in Spain, Rashford has at least received an England call-up from Thomas Tuchel having missed out on a place in the Three Lions' squad for their troublesome June internationals.

The struggles of a certain Cristiano Ronaldo over in Saudi Arabia have been well-documented over the last couple of weeks, and for the most part, his loss is Ivan Toney's gain. Having ousted CR7's Al-Nassr on penalties in the final of the Saudi Super Cup last week, the England striker scored four goals for Al-Ahli in their two matches over the last five days.

Toney scored the only goal as Al-Ahli saw off newly-promoted NEOM, who boast the likes of Alexandre Lacazette, Abdoulaye Doucoure and Said Benrahma, with a neat finish under former Paris Saint-Germain goalkeeper Marcin Bulka. This was then followed by a hat-trick in their 5-0 victory away at Al Arabi in the last 32 of the King's Cup.

The only sour note for Toney to start 2025-26 is that he has been dropped by Tuchel for England's September internationals. The Three Lions boss claimed he wanted to get a closer look at the striker in place of Tottenham's Dominic Solanke back in June, but Toney was only afforded two minutes of action across games against Andorra and Senegal. Solanke is currently injured, buy Tuchel has decided only to call upon Ollie Watkins as a natural deputy to captain Kane, raising questions over Toney's standing ahead of next year's World Cup.

Let's take another detour away from Europe for a moment and check in on a fantasy move that everyone can enjoy. Aaron Ramsey decided to swap his hometown Cardiff City for UNAM Pumas of Mexico this summer, and on only his second appearance, he's become a local hero.

Amid a downpour that resembled Grimsby Town vs Manchester United last week, Ramsey was introduced in Pumas' home game with Atlas on Sunday in the hope of snatching a winner, with the match locked steadfast at 0-0. As he has done so often in his career, the Welshman popped up with a late goal to snatch the three points.

Rodrigo Lopez's corner appeared to deceive everyone bar Ramsey, who was left unmarked inside the six-yard box and wouldn't have been able to believe his luck when allowed such an open volley at close range. He made no mistake and sprinted away to take in the adulation, removing his shirt and holding his name up to the new fans who will now sing his name.

Roberto De Zerbi clearly loved his time in England so much that he has seemingly decided to build his Marseille side around British players. That brought a fair bit of success last season, finishing second and securing a Champions League berth, but this is yet to bear the same sort of fruit this term.

OM have opened 2025-26 with one win and two losses, with their most recent defeat seeing them fall to Lyon on Sunday in the Derby des Olympiques. As is usually the case with this iteration of Marseille, it was a crazy match full of unparalleled drama.

Summer signing CJ Egan-Riley, who is said to have impressed De Zerbi in his first few weeks at Stade Velodrome, was shown a red card on the half-hour mark for a last-man foul outside the box. As a result, Mason Greenwood was tactically subbed at half-time for left-back Ulisses Garcia. Meanwhile, Angel Gomes played the entire game, but he and his side were denied a point at the very last.

Lyon, who are enjoying life with Liverpool academy graduate Tyler Morton pulling the strings, forced a breakthrough three minutes from time when Leonardo Balerdi turned the ball into his own net after trying to clear a loose ball that had just bounced back off the crossbar.

De Zerbi didn't spend too much time digging England Under-21 international Egan-Riley out for his error - "There was this mistake," were his only words - as many of the questions he faced revolved around his attacking selections. Regardless, trouble is brewing again on France's south coast.

We'll round off this week on a brighter note, courtesy of Keinan Davis. Having bounced between Aston Villa and the Championship without ever finding much success early in his career, he's found more of a home over in Italy with Udinese.

Still far from a prolific scorer and more known for bringing others into play, he managed to run ragged a formidable Inter defence on Sunday as his side came from behind to win 2-1 at San Siro. After Denzel Dumfries broke the deadlock, the Dutchman then conceded a penalty for handball, and Davis converted from 12 yards to bring the visitors back on level terms.

But Udinese weren't done there. They gave it a proper good go and got what they deserved, with Davis turning provider on this occasion. With the Bianconeri breaking away, Davis held off two defenders before slipping in Arthur Atta, whose curled shot from the edge of the box beat goalkeeper Yann Sommer and proved to be the final goal of the evening.