Former Spurs star reveals he sought legal advice after explosive Mourinho row

Former England international Danny Rose has revealed he has sought legal advice after learning a private conversation with Jose Mourinho at Tottenham had been filmed without his knowledge.

Rose claimed he was unaware that Spurs boss Mourinho had allowed Amazon Prime's 'All or Nothing' documentary makers to install cameras in the manager's office, unlike his predecessor Mauricio Pochettino.

“When Poch was there there were no cameras in his office, he didn't allow that,” Rose told former Spurs and England team-mate Kyle Walker on the BBC Podcast 'You'll Never Beat Kyle Walker'.

“So when I go knocking on the door, I assume there are still no cameras in the office, but they've installed one now and I didn't know that.

'This chat is in December. I was on loan at Newcastle in January and it wasn't until May that I got word from one of the lads that they had this and they were putting it in. So yeah, I wasn't happy. I had to seek legal advice.”

In one of the most memorable segments from the six-part series broadcast in August and September 2020, Rose knocked on Mourinho's office door to ask why he wasn't in the team even though he was training well, saying he would rather training at home if he wasn't playing.

Mourinho told him he had been selected for a match against Liverpool and had not played well. Rose agreed, but the conversation turned into an argument, with Rose promising to go to chairman Daniel Levy.

“It's a completely normal conversation,” Rose told Walker. “Any player who doesn't play on Saturday is knocking on the door.”

Rose, who won 29 England caps between 2016 and 2019, never played for Tottenham again.

He left at the end of the 2020/21 season after fourteen years at the club and joined Watford, for whom he made nine appearances before agreeing to terminate his contract in 2022.

Rose joins his former Spurs captain Hugo Lloris in becoming one of a number of former players to have spoken out about the club's decision to take part in the documentary.

In his new book, Hugo Lloris: Earning my Spurs, he explained: 'Tensions that would only increase following a decision by the club that would affect the daily life of the team; a decision made without the consent of the team or the manager: installing cameras everywhere for Amazon's series about the Spurs.

'In light of the amount quoted – around £10 million – we wondered whether those whose seasons and activities would be affected, anyone asked to perform every day, would receive a discount. The answer was not long in coming: no.

'So when the film crew placed small microphones on some cafeteria tables, we sat at others. We had to be careful all the time. The only place we could speak freely was the training locker room – we had convinced them to keep it off limits.

“Otherwise they had microphones and cameras everywhere – even at some practice sessions, which was no small thing: it was a limitation and it had consequences.”

Danny Rose spoke to former Spurs and England teammate Kyle Walker on the BBC Podcast 'You'll Never Beat Kyle Walker'