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Pulis warns Spurs must win trophies to keep Kane

Spurs must win trophies if they want to keep Harry Kane, according to former West Brom and Stoke boss Tony Pulis.

The England captain said in March that he would not stay at Spurs if they weren't serious about winning silverware.

But with Jose Mourinho at the helm, Pulis believes Kane has a good chance of filling up his trophy cabinet with his boyhood club.

"Tottenham have got to start winning trophies. I don't think you can criticise Kane too much," the Pulis manager told Stats Perform News.

"He's a top player at international and club level. Over the past three or four years with Mauricio Pochettino, Spurs have been a top team. If you'd said they wouldn't win anything three or four years ago I'd have been surprised - and I am.

"He'll want to win things, he'll want to be ambitious. They say he's really happy at Tottenham. It's a fabulous football club – the new stadium and training facilities are out of this world.

"But the boy wants to win. And he has a manager who wants to win as well.

"Mourinho is a fantastic manager and his record shows that, given the tools, he can win football matches.

"He needs time. The big problem in society today and especially in sport is that people think it will happen overnight.

"Fingers crossed they'll give him time there. If they do that and back him financially, he's proved he is one of the great managers over the past couple of decades.

"Mourinho has got as good a chance as any manager on the planet of getting success there."

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