JOSE FACES BACKLASH OVER ‘LAZY, UNFIT’JIBES

JOSE MOURINHO is facing a dressing room backlash after branding his Spurs players “lazy”.

Defender Ben Davies (right) insisted the 1-0 defeat to Everton was not down to a lack of effort, but admitted the performance was not good enough.

But other members of the squad were

annoyed by Mourinho’s remarks and see it as a way for the Tottenham boss to deflect blame from himself.

Davies (below) said: “I think everybody worked hard. I gave it my all and don’t doubt that everybody else in the team gave it their all.

“But the performance was not up to scratch. It’s hard to put it down to a lack of effort.

We will evaluate where we went wrong.

“We’ve worked hard in training and are convinced we can put in a better performance than we did against Everton.

“We’ve had boys coming back at different times and the international break coming the week before. But you have to deal with these things.”

It’s a big week for Tottenham, who face Lokomotiv Plovdiv in a Europa League play-off in Bulgaria on Thursday, before a trip to Southampton on Sunday.