Daily Star Sunday

X-rated Jose will turn the air blue!

- By STEVE BATES

JOSE MOURINHO urged his Tottenham players to be “a bunch of c***s” in a startling team talk soon after taking over.

Leaked footage from the forthcomin­g fly-onthe-wall Amazon documentar­y “All or Nothing” shows Mourinho telling his Spurs players to get nasty for the 90 minutes they’re on the pitch after saying they are “a nice group of guys”.

Mourinho’s sweary outburst will be shown on the documentar­y which has charted Spurs’ roller-coaster season.

The Spurs manager, who took over when Mauricio Pochettino was sacked in November, tells his stars they have to be “bastards” – with former midfielder Christian Eriksen clearly surprised by the X-rated pep talk.

“You need to communicat­e,” Mourinho says. “And maybe I’m wrong – maybe I’m wrong – I feel that you are honestly a very nice group of guys.

“But for 90 minutes, for

90 minutes you cannot be nice. For 90 minutes you have to be a bunch of c***s.

“Intelligen­t c***s. Not stupid c***s. B ****** s in the sense that you are there to win matches, man.”

No date has yet been set for the release of the documentar­y – but Mourinho’s foul-mouthed talk is expected to lure fans to subscribe to the Amazon Prime pay-per-view channel.

Mourinho, though, won’t be tuning in.

“Nothing is fake, everything is real. So, so real, nobody acted for it. It is just the way it is. Am I going to watch it? No. No I’m not.

‘It is not something I want to, also because I know better than

|anyone what our day by day is here.

“But I think it will be very, very interestin­g for the people who love football and love sport. I think it will be really great for them.”

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