DO BETTER be Bele flop vows Sissoko TIMID SPURS NEED MUCH MOUR FIGHT

young. He just needs to stay calm, keep working like he does and I am sure that he will be a success at the club.

“To have someone with whom you can speak every day and who speaks the language, it is very helpful.

“In training with him and even outside training – of course at the moment it is more difficult because of the social distancing.

But I am trying to be with him and do some stuff together.” Sissoko’s relationship with Spurs boss Mourinho is different altogether.

And he is massively grateful for the support that the Portuguese manager gave him during his three months out of action following with a knee ligament injury earlier this year. Sissoko said: “He was close to me, asking me a lot of things each day. He was asking if I feel better, if I need something to improve my recovery time.

“That gives you a good push to try to recover as soon as possible, because that means the manager cares about you.

“You want to be back as soon as possible trying to help the team.”

Add lockdown into the mix and Sissoko – whose side face Everton tomorrow – didn’t train with his team-mates for more than five months.

He said: “I was very excited to be back with them.

“I was like a kid who goes outside and can play football with his team-mates on the street once again.

“So now I’m ready and trying to give everything that I can to help the team do well and to

have no regrets.”

JOSE MOURINHO was “destroyed a little bit on the inside” by his side’s lack of fight against Sheffield United on Thursday.

Spurs sunk without a trace after a controversial

VAR decision robbed them of a goal, as their Champions League hopes were left in tatters after a 3-1 defeat.

They were outplayed and outfought by the Blades and Mourinho was “disturbed” by the performance.

“There was a lot in the game, a possibility of shortening distances to Champions League positions, of being more stable for the Europa League positions fight,” he said.

“I thought that from a desire point of view, they put more in than us and that disturbs me.

“It’s something that I feel destroys me a little bit on the inside. “I always say it’s not a problem for me to lose because my opponent is better, because my goalkeeper made a big mistake, my striker missed two chances with an open goal, or a guy missed a penalty in the last minute.

“It’s not a problem for me to cope with mistakes and defeats.

“But it’s a problem when my feeling is we could do much more.”

Spurs have a chance to resurrect their Europa League hopes against Everton tomorrow, though Dele Alli (above) is a doubt after picking up a hamstring injury.