• Mourinho saw sad dressing room after losing at Old Trafford • ‘Being sad will not resolve your problems,’ Mourinho warns

José Mourinho wants to see his Tottenham players “raging” whenever they experience defeat, having been concerned their reaction at Manchester United was not intense enough.

The 2-1 defeat at Old Trafford on Wednesday was Spurs’ first under Mourinho, coming after three straight wins since his arrival. He detected sadness in the dressing room rather than anger and, as his team attempt to bounce back against Burnley on Saturday, has sent a clear message that their mentality needs to change.

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“One of the things I said was that I saw a sad dressing room, a sad plane and that’s not what I like after a defeat,” he said. “You have to be more than that. You have to be raging, angry, not sad. Being sad will not resolve your problems. You need that mentality.

“We have to play and resolve the problems step by step. We have problems, there is no doubt, but we have players with quality, a great human dressing room. But we have to change the feeling of being sorry. We need to be more than that.”

Mourinho, who spent the night at Spurs’ training ground after returning from Manchester, rising early to prepare for the game against Sean Dyche’s side, expanded on his thoughts regarding how to handle defeat.

“The thing I want from them and I hope they understand my message, is that I don’t like sad people in this sense of the word,” he said. “I don’t want people to be sad after the game. I want people who, after defeat, would love a match the next morning. Not feeling sad.

“Sad is not the kind of reaction that I like and these players need this kind of message. They need to say: ‘OK, I don’t accept defeat, that is not something that belongs to my culture. I don’t accept defeat.’ Don’t be sad. Let’s go – next day, next match.”

Spurs travel to Bayern Munich next Wednesday for what is a Champions League dead rubber, with the German side guaranteed top spot in Group B and Mourinho’s team secure in second. He mentioned Troy Parrott, Kyle Walker-Peters, Oliver Skipp and Ryan Sessegnon as young players who would be involved, a relentless schedule meaning he has had no time to experiment.

There has also been scant opportunity to fine-tune his ideas in training and he has earmarked the week between their visit to Wolves on 15 December and their home match against Chelsea seven days later as one to work with his players.

“Probably in normal conditions it would be nice for the players to have some days off,” he said, “but it is the kind of week where it is my only chance to have them, so we are going to work that week.”

Christian Eriksen’s role in Mourinho’s team remains unresolved, with the playmaker seemingly destined to depart for a fee next month or for free in the summer. Mourinho said the pair had spoken but would not reveal the outcome of those talks.

“It’s for him to say. I have to defend the best interests of my club. I will not tell you what we said. I am perfectly fine if he wants to say but I have to have respect for the player.”