HUGO: WE WON’T BE TOO NICE
HUGO LLORIS reckons he and his Tottenham team-mates are well on the way to becoming the ‘c****’ boss Jose Mourinho wants them to be.
A recurring theme of Amazon Prime’s All Or Nothing: Tottenham Hotspur documentary is Mourinho’s insistence that his side is too nice.
That they need to behave more like you-know-whats if they want to challenge for, and win, the biggest prizes. He has been hammering home the message for some time and, as his men prepare to take on Everton today, Lloris says it’s getting through.
The Spurs captain, the last man to lift the World Cup, said: “It doesn’t mean outside the field you are not a good guy. You can be a good guy outside the field but when you are on the field you have to do everything.
“And everything means to also have this personality to be naughty, to get the winning taste. When I look at the games after the restart, there were some good signals. I could see some improvements, especially in the way our manager wants us to play.
“Last season was tough for everyone and maybe especially for the manager because he arrived in the middle of the season in a bad period, especially for confidence.
“So now it’s a new season with four weeks of work together, more or less, and it’s very important to have a good start to see the progress in our games, performance and results.”
Does that mean Tottenham will lay down a marker of their new, nastier persona against Everton today?
Lloris added: “Yes, but it’s not enough on its own.”