I don’t need new players, proclaims Jose Mourinho
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Having replaced Mauricio Pochettino as Tottenham look to move forward, Jose Mourinho has admitted that he will not look to sign any new players. The mercurial manager has had an impressive career but is renowned for player demands at previous clubs signing players worth more than a billion pounds.
After an impressive five year spell with the club, Mauricio Pochettino and Tottenham parted ways only for the North Londoners to replace him with Jose Mourinho. The former Chelsea and Manchester United manager has had a glittering managerial career over the years winning trophies with every club he has managed. However, the Portuguese manager has been out of a job since being sacked by Manchester United last season and this is his first job since.
Mourinho’s first test will be against West Ham and he inherits a team that features Christian Eriksen, Harry Kane, and many others. But with reports indicating a rift within the club’s dressing room, the former Chelsea boss went onto admit that he will not let the club lose their best players. He also added that since he has inherited a gifted squad, there will be no need for new players.
"Players… the best gift are the ones that are here. I don't need players, I am happy with the players that I have. I just need time to understand them better to know everything about them. You only know a player when you work with them," said Mourinho reported Sky Sports.
“How many times have I played against these guys? I know them well but never enough until you work with them. My gift is this squad, it is very good. If we win titles it will not be because of me but as a consequence of the work, we do at the club. This is a package, this is a vision. To try and keep all the best players and to refuse to let the best players go away is part of the vision too."
But the "gifted" squad that Mourinho has inherited has a few problems with Jan Vertonghen, Christian Eriksen and Toby Alderweireld’s contracts expiring at the end of the season. That caused a few problems for Pochettino and will potentially cause a few problems for the former Manchester United boss with the January window around the corner. But Mourinho went on to admit that he won’t force anyone to sign a new deal but hopes that they will.
"I've had no time to look at individual cases. The first thing for me is for the players to feel good and if they are going to leave in January or June or sign a new contract I think all of that based on feeling good and to feel good is to be ready and available on Saturday. Jan cannot do that because of injury.
"But they have to be ready for the team. Then it is about the club, it is about them, it is about me, it is about Mr Levy but fundamentally it is about the players being happy. You have to choose what makes you happy but at this moment we have to look at the short term and we have to try and get two good results in the next two matches,” he added.
