HUGO LLORIS says Spurs are more “naughty” after Jose Mourinho’s “bunch of c***s” plea.
In one of the highlights of Amazon’s fly-on-the-wall documentary series All Or Nothing, Mourinho was shown telling his players in X-rated terms nice guys don’t win.
Club captain Lloris, 33, said: “You know it doesn’t mean off the pitch you are not a good guy.
“But when you are on the field you have to do everything.
And everything means to have this personality to be naughty, to get the winning taste.
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“This is something to be the way to follow.
When I look at the games after the restart I think there were some good signals.
“I could see some improvements, especially in the way our manager wants us to play.
“It was a tough season for everyone, and maybe especially for the manager because he arrived in the middle of the season in a bad period, especially for confidence.
“So now it’s a new season with four weeks of work together, more or less, and again, it’s very important to have a good start to see the progress in our games.”
That start is a home game today against Everton — the first of five games in 15 days as the most congested football season in history begins.
In the documentary, Harry Kane was seen blaming the torn hamstring he suffered in January on the busy festive programme.
Most players have had only a short break since the last season was finished off and Lloris added: “In four weeks, you don’t really have time to make a proper pre-season but we have to adapt.
It was a tough season, and if you add some injuries to some important players in the squad it makes things even harder
Hugo Lloris
“It will be a kind of marathon in September because we have so many games.
“It is a bit of a crazy schedule, but we need all the players ready because we need everyone in the team.
The only thing we can do is try to care as much as we can about our bodies and our minds.”
Kane’s injury was one of a number of setbacks Mourinho suffered as he tried to rebuild Tottenham’s season after the sacking of Mauricio Pochettino.
Lloris said: “The only thing we can hope is to not be worse.
“It was a tough season, and if you add some injuries to some important players in the squad it makes things even harder.
“Now, we are thinking about tomorrow and the future and how we can create something between us. How can we make this season a good one?
“Step by step, we have to build the confidence into the squad.”
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“There’s nothing like winning a trophy to boost belief.”
Lloris lifted the World Cup with France but is heading into his ninth season at White Hart Lane without any silverware.
He added: “At the end, it is the same: you want to win and do everything to win.”