LONDON, Aug. 21 (Xinhua) -- Tottenham Hotspur striker Harry Kane said on Tuesday that his side can no longer use their lack of experience as an excuse for not winning silverware.
Last season saw Tottenham finish third in the Premier League, but they crashed out of the last 16 of the Champions League to Juventus, despite starting their tie with a 2-2 draw in Turin.
Tottenham coach Mauricio Pochettino put that defeat down to "experience," and would later say his players "needed more time," after Manchester United denied them a place in the FA Cup final.
In declarations published in the Independent newspaper on Tuesday, Kane said the time has now come to deliver.
"We're a team that has made huge strides in a short amount of time and the only way to continue that is to start winning things," commented Kane, adding, "we're not young anymore."
As well as leading his club, Kane was the England captain in this summer's World Cup finals, where he ended up being top scorer with six goals. Meanwhile Tottenham's side now has an average age of over 26, while every player who participated in Saturday's 3-1 win over Fulham was an international.
"We're getting to an age where we're that bit more experienced and we want to win. We want to win at everything we do. We've just got to try to do that," explained Kane.
The striker believes that after four years working with Pochettino, the team is reaching its prime in the manager's fifth season at the club.
"When you have a team that has known each other for that long, you know how each other plays and, off the pitch, you know how to keep everyone up for it," he concluded. Enditem
