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TOTTENHAM boss Jose Mourinho does not want to think too much about his side’s gruelling schedule over the next month.

Today’s Premier League opener against Everton is their first of a possible nine in 22 days as Spurs pay the price of having to enter Europa League qualification.

The quickfire rounds of the Carabao Cup also hurt them as they will have two weeks where they have to play

Tuesday, Thursday, Tuesday if they progress in all competitions.

It is a full-on calendar and will require Mourinho (pictured right) to use the full depths of his squad and possibly some of his youth team too.

“If I think too much about it, I don’t know how to answer and I will get depressed. I don’t want to get depressed. I want to go to every match with a smile,” he said.

“I want to go to every match positive. But the other day I made a challenge with my boys, asking them which one of them thinks they can play all these nine matches for 90 minutes and nobody told me ‘I can’.

“So we all are very, very aware that it is impossible to do it. It is not human.

“It is a big risk in terms of our ambitions, first of all, because it is very, very possible you lose one of these matches and the part of the

Premier League where you can lose and stay in competition but if you lose in the Europa League, then you go out.

“If you lose in the Carabao Cup, you go out too. So looking at that level, it is a big risk.

“Injury, obviously, if everybody speaks about lots of matches in some periods, this is something unique. It has never happened, never happened.”