Tottenham will use the remaining 10 games of their Premier League campaign to build for next season, according to assistant boss Gus Poyet.
Spurs are virtually safe from relegation, and European football has been secured following the Carling Cup triumph at Wembley, giving a perception of there being little to play for.
However, Poyet wants momentum to take into the 2009 season, while players are determined to impress head coach Juande Ramos ahead of the planned summer changes to the squad.
They will get another chance to put their case forward this weekend at Manchester City.
Poyet said: "The target for us now is that we keep improving and that means we have to win as many games as possible.
"We are going to start building for next season starting with Sunday."
Skipper Ledley King is confident Spurs will bounce back from their European disappointment this week and emerge an even stronger team in Ramos' first full season.
Ramos' dream of a UEFA Cup hat-trick ended on penalties against PSV Eindhoven on Wednesday.
King feels Spurs can go further next season in the competition Ramos won in the previous two years with Sevilla.
"For us to win something means that the season will still go down as a positive year for us. Now we have that taste of winning something, we believe we can go on and do more," King said.
"We still realise that we have a lot of work to do to maintain our standards of trying to win trophies and that's what we'll do. We have learnt from this and we will come back next year a stronger and better team."
Poyet feels Spurs will eventually benefit from the experience of a penalty shoot-out, despite losing to the Dutch champions.
"It was a great and fantastic experience for some of our players," Poyet added. "Some of them had that walk with the ball from the middle of the pitch to the penalty spot for the first time and that will bode very well for them in the future.
"I wasn't the best at penalties when I was a player, but I told the players you can only miss if you take one, the players who never miss are the ones who don't take one."
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