Sixteen years on, Jose Mourinho prefers his work to do the talking. In just 12 months the Spurs boss has transformed the north Londoners from mid-table underachievers to title contenders.
He has done it in half the time his successor, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, has been at Manchester United, on half the wage bill at bitter rivals Arsenal and on nowhere near the expenditure at Chelsea or Manchester City.
With his focus firmly on a title success that would silence his critics, however, Mourinho chooses not to display the bullishness that raised eyebrows when Chelsea first brought him into English football in 2004. “No.
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