On the latest episode of You’ll Never Beat Kyle Walker on BBC Sounds, former Tottenham full-back Danny Rose speaks about a conversation with then-Spurs boss Jose Mourinho about his lack of playing time that was broadcast as part of Amazon’s All Or Nothing documentary.
England international Rose, now retired, said he was unaware that the discussion was being filmed.
He said: “When Poch [previous manager Mauricio Pochettino] was there, there were no cameras in his office. He didn’t allow that.
“So when I’ve gone to knock on the door, I’m assuming there’s still no cameras in the office, but they’ve put one in now and I didn’t know that.
“This chat is in December, I’d gone on loan to Newcastle in January. I didn’t then get notified by one of the lads until May that they’d got this and they’re putting it in. I wasn’t happy and I had to get legal advice.”
Despite their dispute being caught on camera, Rose said there was not a “huge falling-out or anything like that” with Mourinho and he thought he had been involved in a “completely normal conversation” with the manager that any player who is not playing would have.
“I only worked under him for eight or 10 weeks,” added Rose. “I didn’t really have a relationship with him, it was just a normal player-manager relationship.
“He came in and he had this approach of wanting to build with three centre-backs and then having the right-back as the outlet and obviously my game – I enjoyed being offensive and his system was that the left-sided player in the back four would be a centre-back who is not going to be adventurous and go forward, so already my days were numbered at the club when he wanted to adopt that approach.
“It wasn’t like there was a huge falling-out or anything like that. That conversation that you see on the documentary is a completely normal conversation, and if any player is not playing on a Saturday, the first thing you do is knock on the door.”