Tottenham Hotspur striker Harry Kane has insisted change must happen at the club if they are to compete with their Premier League rivals.
Spurs find themselves fifth in the Premier League table ahead of today's key clash with Liverpool, six points behind Manchester United. Ryan Mason takes charge of his second game in interim charge after overseeing a 2-2 draw with Man United on Thursday, but the damage has already been done earlier in the season.
The north Londoners have managed only one win in their last six games, losing to Bournemouth and Newcastle and dropping points to relegation threatened Southampton and Everton in that spell. The poor run of form cost Antonio Conte his job before last weekend's 6-1 drubbing at Newcastle saw Cristian Stellini also leave the club.
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Speaking ahead of the trip to Merseyside, Kane told Sky Sports: "When you've been here this long - I've been here since I was 11 years old - you understand what the fans are like, you understand what the club's like. You've been through good moments with the club, I've been through not so good moments.
"Values are... everyone wants to win and everyone wants to lift trophies and that's ultimately our aim every year. But we're in a different situation to some of the clubs around us and we have to accept that but still find a way to improve and get better.
"We probably haven't been doing that in recent years so ultimately it's about getting back to competing right at the very top and our squad has got enough talent to do that.
"Ultimately, there's some things that may need to change, I think everyone is doing everything they can to try and achieve that. But when you look at the competition in the Premier League now, the fine line between being one of the top clubs and 10th or 11th is very slim and you have to make sure you're on it in every department."
Tottenham have struggled to replicate the success under Mauricio Pochettino since the Argentine was dismissed in 2019. Jose Mourinho did a job initially but was sacked before the Carabao Cup final, Nuno Espirito Santo was let go after only three months and Antonio Conte could not guide the club to their first trophy since 2008.
Kane believes the club misses the structure from when Pochettino was at the club, but admitted it isn't as simple as just turning the clocks back. "Yeah I think whenever you have a good moment as a team, I think we had three or four really good years when we were competing at the very top and that was without spending loads of money," he added.
"We had a really good mixture of young and experienced players. It's impossible in football to click your fingers and go back to the good times and say 'let's go back to what it was', because every season and every situation is different. But I feel like there were some values at that time and some culture that really made us achieve the things we did.
"So maybe we've lost parts of that over the last few years and it's about looking back at that and seeing the good things we can take from that and trying to implement that in the future."
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