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Tottenham want titles after perfect White Hart Lane send-off - Kane

LONDON -- Harry Kane says Sunday's "perfect" goodbye to White Hart Lane will stay with him for the rest of his life but he insisted that the next time Tottenham celebrate, it must be some silverware.

Kane scored Spurs' last-ever goal at the old stadium in a 2-1 win against Manchester United and the match was followed by a mass pitch invasion by supporters and a joyous and emotional closing ceremony, featuring 48 iconic former players.

The England striker was mobbed by fans at the final whistle before returning to the pitch with his family for the ceremony and tradition end-of-season lap of honour.

He said: "We kind of expected it, but when the fans came on it was just about trying to find your way to the tunnel and everyone is trying to get your shirt and kissing you and hugging you. That's special and you hold those moments, you hold those memories for the rest of your life.

"To score the winner here in the last game is just a dream come true and to have my daughter and my girlfriend walking around at the end is just a moment I'll never forget.

"It was unbelievable. It was the perfect send-off," he added. "I'd been thinking all week about how it was going to go, I just wanted to make sure we won so badly.

"I wanted to try and get that winner as well, and for it to happen is just a dream come true. It was a perfect way walking around at the end with the families and everything -- it just shows what this club's like. It is quite emotional but all for positive reasons.

"That's got to be the next celebration," Kane said of Tottenham's title ambitions. "That was special but imagine what it would be like winning a Premier League, or winning an FA Cup or a Champions League or something.

"We've just got to go and make it happen. We've got the team, we've got the belief, so next season hopefully it's our year."

The demolition of White Hart Lane began on Monday and Spurs will play all of next season's home matches at Wembley Stadium. They hope to move into their new 61,500-seater home, being built adjacent to the current ground, for the start of the 2018-19 campaign.

"It is sad to see White Hart Lane go, it has been an amazing stadium for us -- especially this season, finishing unbeaten," Kane said.

"But we're going into bigger and better things, and the new stadium is going to be unbelievable. It just shows the progression the club is making. It's the next step for us.

"We've just got to next season go out and try and win some trophies, and go into the new season as proper title contenders and players who can win trophies."

The win ensured Spurs finished as the Premier League runners-up, but they are expected to face a difficult summer in the transfer market, with interest in their star players from clubs at home and abroad.

Kane, however, feels the experience of leaving their historic home since 1899 has brought the players even closer and said he doubts many players will leave the club in the summer.

"It shows what kind of group we are. We're a family on and off the pitch. We work so hard as a group and the staff, the manager, and, look, there's not many better teams to be at around the world at the moment," Kane said.

"We've got a very bright future, a great squad, a team that's hungry to win and to learn and to get better. Of course there's going to be rumours over the summer, but I'd be very surprised if most of us aren't still here next season.

"I keep going back to the word 'family.' Everyone just has a special connection here -- the club legends that walked out, and the team we have got now and the staff and the manager.

"It's a special bond and I don't think you always get that at clubs, that's why we've got to hold onto that, make that motivate us to hopefully be out there next year at Wembley lifting a Premier League together. That's got to be the next step, lifting the trophy and having celebrations like that but with a title or a cup.

"That's got to be our aim and we've got to use this as motivation to get there."

Spurs have dropped just four points at White Hart Lane all season but Kane says Tottenham have to believe they can win the Premier League at Wembley, and said the club would not suffer in the same way that West Ham have at their new home.

"We've got to believe. We've had 30-odd thousand [fans] throughout the whole season, we're going to have 80-odd thousand next year so we've got to make that a fortress as well," the England striker said.

"We've got to get the fans behind us, we've got to keep the fans believing and, look, we have got to just believe in ourselves. We've got to try and take that next step and try and finish first.

"We play a different style to West Ham. When we're out there, we're going to try and play exciting football, press high like we do here and that should get the crowd on their feet.

"The crowd have always been good, even in the Champions League when we played at Wembley the crowd were fantastic. It was just our performances on them days weren't great. I am not too worried, I don't think the players are too worried.

"We're just excited to take the next step, take the next challenge and that is going to be even more difficult next year.

"Obviously a lot of top teams, the top six as we look at now, are all going to be fighting for that title again and it's been quite an achievement this year to finish second, but we've got to go one better next year."