Jose Mourinho has revealed that he will give young players a chance to wear the Tottenham Hotspur shirt next week in Germany and has named four of them.

The Spurs boss has already indicated that he will leave some of his big names at home for the Champions League match which is a dead rubber of a game, because both Bayern Munich and Tottenham have qualified for the knockout stages and this match will not affect their positions as group leader and runner-up.

Mourinho, who watched the first half of Spurs U23s' win against Liverpool on Friday afternoon before his press conference, has also said that he is looking forward to spending full weeks with his players once the run of midweek matches is done, so that he can properly work with them on the training ground.

His reasoning behind leaving some of the players in England is so he can work with them on deeper issues rather than overload them with that and tactical work for the Bayern match.

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He was asked whether he could also remain at Hotspur Way rather than manage the team in a game many see as meaningless.

"Not for me. Not for Tottenham. Not for the objectives, no. Because we are going to finish second. It doesn’t matter the result, but it's very important for the players. Very important for the players that are going to play," said Mourinho.

"It's very important for me to know them better. I am going to play for sure some of the players that are not playing with me in these matches we are playing.

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"It's a great opportunity for young people. A great opportunity for the development of these young players, the Walker-Peters, the Skipps, the Parrotts, the Sessegnons, all these young players that we have, it’s a great opportunity for them."

He added: "Of course there is the prestige of the club also involved, and we are going to try to go with a team that gives us some guarantees to try to fight for a result that we don’t need, but a result that we want.

"We know that tomorrow [against Burnley] is going to be the fifth game in a row, we know that after that we have again a difficult theory, we know that we go to Wolves on the weekend, and Wolves is one of the teams that is in front of us in the table. We have to look to this game, to Bayern, with all these in mind.

"But if you want to look for the positive side of it, and not to the negative side, it is to say that lots of young players are going to have a good opportunity to play in an amazing stadium, amazing competition, against top players.

"Even if Bayern rest two or three or four, I don’t know if they do, but even if they do, you look to the players that normally are their second choices, and they have even World Cup players like for example Javi Martinez. So it will be a great opportunity for the boys, and very important for me to go with them."

Mourinho admitted that he is going to have to work the players hard this month rather than give them the days off they might expect.

"We are going to have a week which is the week that ends with the Chelsea game [22 December], that week is a free week," he said.

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

The Portuguese admitted that he was disappointed to see that his players were sad rather than angry in the dressing room after Wednesday night's defeat at Manchester United and that is a shift in mentality he wants to bring in.

Dele Alli and Lucas Moura both said after the defeat that perhaps the Spurs players were too arrogant and over confident after their three straight wins under the new coach.

"I did not say that. I just said that they probably did not believe me when I said that they would need to match United in intensity and emotion that they were going to put into the game. Maybe a little bit of that," said Mourinho.

"The thing that 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. 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, ‘okay, 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."

He explained further: "Sad is grief. When you lose somebody. You have be sad, you have to be grieving, you have to be crying. But there is no solution. You lose a person – there is no way of changing that. You lose a football match – there is always the next one.

"You replace one game with another game. I have finished this one, I will get on with the next one. Keep moving, keep going, keep learning and do not accept that the defeat is something empty. Accepting it is a learning process and go on the to the next game. But you cannot replace people.

"I slept [at the training ground] after the Manchester United game. I did not go home. So the next morning at eight o’clock I was in here. Doing what? Burnley… Burnley!

"Analysiing, trying to organise the training session, trying to organise the meeting, choosing the clips to show them in the clearest possible way how Burnley work. That’s the way you have to do it in football – not to accept things in a passive way."

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But do the Tottenham players actually have that anger inside them?

"I am here to help them – that’s my job. Of course they have that – they are fantastic players," said Mourinho. "I am here to help them. The most difficult thing is for them to have their talent, I am here to help them with the rest."