Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)

KANE SAYS: I WANT THE TOP PRIZES

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decision on his future until after this summer’s Euros, where he will be in the shop window for the handful of clubs who could get near his £150million-plus price tag.

But Tottenham’s sacking of manager Jose Mourinho last week left Kane (above, picking up his Carabao Cup runner-up medal last Sunday) uncertain who is going to break the club’s trophy drought.

Spurs have missed out on three of their top targets to replace Mourinho, with Julian Nagelsmann taking over at

Bayern Munich,

Jesse Marsch agreeing to join

Leipzig and

Brendan Rodgers closing in on

Champions League football with

Leicester next season.

After being named Premier League Player of the Year at the London Football Awards, Kane said: “It is bitterswee­t – I would rather be winning team trophies with this one.

“Individual awards are great, they are fantastic achievemen­ts. I want to be winning the biggest prizes there is to offer and we are not quite doing that.

“For sure, if I finish my career as Premier League top scorer and, hopefully, England’s top goalscorer, that would be incredible.

“But it wouldn’t feel as good if I didn’t have a lot of team trophies to go with it.” Kane, 27, is on course to win a third Golden Boot (below) after scoring 33 goals in 52 games for club and country in another outstandin­g season personally.

But his pointed remarks about Spurs’ failure to win silverware since 2008 could hint that he sees his future away from north London.

Tottenham went top of the league – eight points clear of City – when they beat Pep Guardiola’s side 2-0 last November.

Now they trail the leaders by 24 points and they have just five games to overhaul a five-point gap to Chelsea if they are to salvage a top-four finish.

Kane said: “It has been a disappoint­ing season. We’ve had so many opportunit­ies and been in so many games where we have been ahead or been in a good position, going into the last 15 minutes, and we haven’t quite got over the line for one reason or another.

“When we look back, we were in a great position in November, but that spell over December and

January put a halt to what we were trying to achieve.

“We have got loads to improve on. The thing now is to try and finish strong, try and win the last five games and, hopefully, try and make the Champions League spot.”

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