By Mike Parrott
With Jose Mourinho being the new Manager of Tottenham, and spending the last 12 months as a Pundit, there is already footage of Mourinho's unbiased opinion about his new Club.
When Liverpool played Tottenham in the 2019 Champions League Final, Mourinho was hired alongside Arsene Wenger to be Pundits for BeIN Sport. With this in mind, we actually have footage of Mourinho analysing his new team, Tottenham.
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Before the Final, Mourinho was asked about both of the team's run to the game: "I think it's not fair for people to say one of them failed...In the case of the managers, even more. They are in the club for four years, I think, and they both couldn't win a trophy."
"Today one of them is going to leave with the big one, and another of them is going to go home without the trophy. It's not fair to say this one is amazing and the other one failed, but it's the reality of football and the reality of life.
"I think we are here to protect the loser because the loser doesn't deserve to be called a loser tonight, because they both did amazingly well to be here."
However, unlike traditional Mourinho, he believed that Spurs didn't need to spend much more money due to how strong the current squad was at the time: "I think that a team needs to buy players when the players they have are not good enough."
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"When the players are good enough, the best you can do is not to sell them, not to lose them, so I think the big business that Tottenham did in the last couple of years, is to have offers for Kane, for Eriksen, for Dele Alli, for Vertonghen, for all of them and not to sell any of them...This is the best business that they could do."
The Portuguese Manager went on to say that the game had been poor with Tottenham not at as good as they can normally play. Mourinho specifically pointed out Harry Kane's play, and how he wasn't acting like his regular self:
"He [Kane] normally drops back, normally comes in between the lines, normally is the link player, then receives the ball from one side, goes in between the lines, he turns, plays with the other full-back on the other side, he arrives in the box. Nothing of this dynamic."
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Mourinho did have his condolences for Mauricio Pochettino after the disappointing loss in the Champions League final. He did believe that Tottenham should hold their heads high and be happy they made it that far in the Champions League.
"I think the Tottenham fans are proud of their team, they still look to this team, to this manager. It's a historical team that's taken to the first time to the Champions League final so I think Tottenham will feel some love at home.
"I think next season when they go back to their stadium, back to life, back to business, they will go with the pride of what they did and not in a low."
However, I don't think they listened to Mourinho's words or he wouldn't be the new Manager at Spurs.
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