Jose Mourinho is no stranger to making bold statements, and he has just delivered another one on the prospect of Tottenham not making the top six at the end of this season.
The Lilywhites are currently struggling for a place in a European qualifying position after they made a poor start to the season.
They reached the final of the Champions League last season and they have been finishing inside the top six for the past decade.
There is, however, a good chance that they might not make it into the top positions at the end of this campaign but Mourinho doesn’t think it would be such a bad thing.
The Portuguese manager claimed that it won’t be the end of the world if Spurs finishes outside the top six and he took a more positive approach to say that it might be a good thing and that it would probably be the start of good things to come.
Mourinho told Sky Sports when asked about finishing in the top six: “I believe, but it is also possible that does not happen. And if that does not happen it is not the end of the world. If that does not happen, it is probably the beginning of a new world because things change.
“Change for you, change for other clubs. The squads they change. The motivations they change, the group dynamic changes. The group that possibly was strong 10 years is ago is not strong anymore. A player that was in the maximum of his motivation is not anymore and vice-versa.
“It is also possible that we don’t get into a top-six position.
“And if that happens of course we have to look at it not smiling, but we have to look at it with optimism and look at it with a professional profile of next season has to be different.
“Because if you analyse Tottenham for example last year, how many matches did Tottenham win away from home? When I arrived I think it was almost a year without an away victory.
“If it happens (finishing outside of the top six), it happens but we don’t want it to happen and we are going to fight for it not to happen.”
It will not be the end of the world, Mourinho is right about that but if we do fail this season he will have to make sure we don’t next season because there is simply no coming back from that, he would have to go.