Danny Rose reveals he sought legal advice over Jose Mourinho Tottenham row after Amazon clip
by Sam Truelove, Alan Smith · football.londonDanny Rose has spoken out about his controversial row with Jose Mourinho, which was captured and showed to a global audience in Tottenham's Amazon Prime documentary "All or Nothing."
The left-back revealed that he had no idea there were cameras in Mourinho's office and it took him six months to discover that his heated conversation about team selection had been filmed. On Kyle Walker’s BBC podcast, Rose cleared up any rumours, claiming there wasn't any significant fall-out with Mourinho, despite the fiery on-screen moment.
The 34-year-old, who is now retired, ended up leaving Spurs on loan in January 2020, sealing a short-term move to Newcastle United. "I only worked under him [Mourinho] for eight or 10 weeks," Rose said, as reported by the Mirror. "I didn't really have a relationship with him. It was just a normal player-manager relationship. 'Hello. Good morning. How are you?'
"Well, obviously 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 was more, you know, not more offensive but I enjoyed being offensive. His system was that the left sided player at the back four would be a centre back who's not going to be adventurous and go forward.
"Already my days were numbered, you know, at the club when he wanted to adopt that approach. So you know in 10 weeks it wasn't like there was a huge falling out or anything like that. You know that conversation that you see on the documentary is a completely normal conversation. If any player who's not playing on a Saturday, the first thing you do is knock on the door.
"Also, so when Poch [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. Got this and they're putting it in. So yeah, I wasn't happy. I had to get legal advice."