Jose Mourinho famously spent huge chunks of the behind-the-scenes Amazon documentary at Tottenham telling his team that they needed to develop a winner’s cutting edge. In short he wanted them to be a ‘bunch of *****’.
It wasn’t the most delicate way of putting it but, a year on, Mourinho is seeing signs that his team are being moulded into his image.
‘We’re improving as a team, that is not in doubt,’ he said. ‘The concept of what the team needs and the type of mentality we need in the team, which is something I have been very, very clear about, we are improving step-by-step.