Tottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino explains the resistance he and assistant Jesus Perez encountered from some players when they took over in 2014...

In our first season, my team and I weren't able to convince everyone [of] the way forward.

Certain big names had got too comfortable — for example, one player who had been at the club for many years no longer came in for training on Mondays — but we gave them the chance to make mistakes and rethink things.

Mauricio Pochettino (left) has said a Tottenham player mocked his assistant Jesus Perez (right)

Spurs were beaten by Chelsea - managed by Jose Mourinho - in the 2015 League Cup final

The 2-0 defeat by Chelsea at Wembley was a bitter blow to Spurs and Pochettino

It took us four months to prompt a drastic transformation. Some players came on board, others did not.

Not everyone accepted the changes and there was a lot of tension.

In our first season in charge, we took the step not to have the team spend the night at a hotel all together before the League Cup final against Jose Mourinho's Chelsea because we felt doing so wouldn't help them.

It was best that people just came to play the game.

The day after we lost that match, one of our own players sang the Jose Mourinho chant to Jesus's face.

That is what we had to contend with.

Pochettino said that after the match one player sang 'the Jose Mourinho chant to Jesus's face'

The Spurs boss also revealed that when he took over some players refused to train on Mondays

The Argentine said: 'My team and I weren't able to convince everyone [of] the way forward'

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