Ex-Tottenham full-back Danny Rose has revealed he sought legal advice after he was seen arguing with Jose Mourinho in a documentary about the club.
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A behind-the-scenes Amazon documentary about the London club was filmed during the 2019-20 season, Mourinho's first after his appointment as Spurs manager. Mourinho, who had replaced Mauricio Pochettino as Spurs boss in November 2019, changed the team's formation and playing style, resulting in Rose being dropped.
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Rose confronted Mourinho in his office about his lack of playing time, but admits he was not prepared for the discussion to be played out in front of cameras as he opened up about his time with the Portuguese manager.
WHAT ROSE SAID
"I only really worked under him for eight or 10 weeks so I didn’t really have a relationship with him," he said on Kyle Walker's podcast for . "It was just a normal player/manager relationship: 'Hello, good morning, how are you?' He came in and he had this approach of wanting to build with three centre-backs and having the right back as the outlet. My game was that I enjoyed being offensive and his system was the left-sided player would be a centre-back and not go forward. So my days were numbered at the club when he wanted to adopt that approach.
"In 10 weeks it wasn’t like there was a huge falling out. That conversation you see on the documentary is a completely normal conversation and any player who is not playing on the Saturday, the first thing you do is knock on the door. When Poch was there, there was no cameras in his office. He didn’t allow that, so when I have gone to knock on the door I was assuming there were no cameras in the office, but they had put one in. I didn’t know that. I didn’t get notified until May that they had got this and were putting it in, so I wasn’t happy. I had to get legal advice."
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Rose was loaned to Newcastle the following January and ended up moving to Watford in 2021 before ending his career. Mourinho is currently in charge of Turkish giants Fenerbahce, though he has been linked with a return to the Premier League after landing himself in trouble after a huge rant against officials in the Super Lig.
