Danny Rose Unaware Mourinho Conversation Was Filmed

During the latest episode of You’ll Never Beat Kyle Walker on BBC Sounds, former Tottenham full-back Danny Rose discussed a conversation he had with Jose Mourinho, who was then the Spurs manager, concerning his limited playing time. This discussion was subsequently broadcast as part of Amazon’s All Or Nothing documentary. Rose, an England international who has since retired, stated that he was not aware the exchange was being filmed. He explained his lack of awareness, stating: “When Poch [previous manager Mauricio Pochettino] was there, there were no cameras in his office. He didn’t allow that.” Rose continued, “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.” Rose further detailed the timeline, noting: “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 the disagreement being recorded, Rose clarified that there was not a “huge falling-out or anything like that” with Mourinho. He considered it a “completely normal conversation” that any player experiencing a lack of game time would have with their manager. Rose further commented on his brief tenure under Mourinho, stating: “I only worked under him for eight or 10 weeks,” adding, “I didn’t really have a relationship with him, it was just a normal player-manager relationship.” He elaborated on the tactical differences: “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.” Rose reiterated his perspective on the interaction: “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.”