Arsene Wenger explains what he thinks Harry Kane meant by recent Spurs comments

Arsene Wenger believes that Harry Kane is frustrated that the standards have been allowed to slip at Tottenham over the last few years.

In a candid interview with Sky Sports earlier this week, Kane opened up on the ‘difficult season’ that he and his Tottenham teammates have endured.

The striker admitted that the club have problems to sort out ‘internally’ this summer and that over the last few years, they have lost some of the cornerstone values they had in place around the training ground.

The 29-year-old suggested that while Spurs are not far off from competing with the best sides in the Premier League, they are also not far off from falling into mid-table if they get their big decisions wrong.

While Kane did not speak about his own future, some Tottenham fans were encouraged by the interview as they saw it as a sign that the striker wants to help steer the club back in the right direction.

Wenger believes that when discussing the culture and standards at the club, the Tottenham man was hinting at the fact that some of the players have been allowed to get away with not giving their all in recent years.

When asked what Kane meant by his statement, the former Arsenal boss told beIN Sports (09/05/23 as relayed by The Mirror): “Translated it means that not everybody gives the maximum to perform during training to be good enough in the game.

“You need to live every day with players to know what’s really going on, and what works and what doesn’t work.

“You have to create a culture inside the club that allows the players to perform.

“You need clear rules for everybody to see what you tolerate and what you don’t tolerate.

“When you talk about values, most of the time it is [about] what is not tolerated.

“Players like Harry Kane have high standards. He is now frustrated because for years the team looked on the way up. Since two or three years they look to have failed again.”

Spurs Web Opinion

I do not think Kane was referring to the players not working hard in training as that certainly would not have been the case during Conte’s regime.

I suspect that he is talking about the club moving away from their values of promoting young players and playing attacking football without fear of failure, which is something we have lost since Mourinho arrived through the door.

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