Portuguese legend, Jose Mourinho must be respected for his career achievements, Toby Alderweireld has said. He recently revealed that there was no schism within the dressing room between the manager and the squad.
According to him, everyone was hurt when the news of his sack was announced, and the team will keep respecting how good the manager is
Toby added that Jose even deserves a thank you for his time at Spurs because he is a legendary coach.
Hid words, “Everybody was hurt to hear [that] he wasn’t our manager any more.”
“[It was] the same surprise for us as for everyone else.”
“We have to respect his career, we have to respect how good he is. Unfortunately we didn’t get the results together that we wanted. Again, a lot of respect, even a thank you.”
“Maybe the results didn’t go that way but 100% he made everyone better. For sure, his ways and how he looked about football … you have to respect them.”
“I understand people want to know that maybe things are not going in the right direction and in the dressing room but that was not it. Again, every player gave 100% to change things.”
On Ryan Mason, “He is a big personality, how he talks. He’s only 29 but he presents himself as very mature. We played with him so we know him. There’s a lot of respect and everyone agrees with how he wants to play football looking forward.”
“You can see the similarities between Ryan and Mauricio Pochettino, how he wants to train, how his sessions are. It feels very familiar. He will bring his own view of football and his own ideas but we can see the similarities, for sure.”
“Everyone knows he played at Spurs under Pochettino, he has a lot of ideas from him and we only can agree that’s very good. Everyone was performing very well under Pochettino and so Ryan’s mind in football is positive – it’s going forward and everyone is seeing his ideas. Even though it’s quite early, it’s a positive vibe he brings.”
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