TOTTENHAM stars are still being put through their paces under the watchful eye of manager Jose Mourinho with home workouts on Zoom.
Mourinho’s new daily routine consists of training his players via video and helping with food deliveries for Haringey Council to help in the coronavirus fight.
Tottenham players during a training session conducted on Zoom
Spurs players were all given exercise bikes for training at home
Tottenham players stretch out after a session
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Sky Sports followed the Spurs boss for a day and revealed the methods he is using to keep his players fit with the season having been suspended since March.
The Tottenham squad – including fit-again striker Harry Kane and captain Hugo Lloris – all clock in for work virtually before doing a series of training sessions.
Spurs stars can be seen taking orders from Mourinho and his team through their laptops.
And Mourinho revealed the club were prepared for the unprecedented measures as they supplied their players with exercise bikes and other equipment before Prime Minister Boris Johnson imposed a nationwide lockdown on March 23.
He said: “I’m just coordinating but so many people, in their houses, are doing amazing work.
“We are trying to give the players, even before the lockdown, (we) sought immediately to try and give the players the right conditions for a possible lockdown that appeared a few days or a couple of weeks later; equip their houses with equipment where they can train.
“The IT people organising everything in the training was hard work by everybody and I am really proud of the people and the players working really hard in very strange conditions.”
Despite Mourinho’s organised home workouts, he faced a police warning last month after conducting a training with Tottenham stars in a London park, despite the strict lockdown rules.
The 57-year-old later apologised, but to make matters worse Davinson Sanchez, Ryan Sessegnon, Serge Aurier and Moussa Sissoko have all been caught breaking coronavirus guidelines with club bosses forced to remind their staff about Covid-19 safety measures.
Mourinho is currently locked down with goalkeeping coach Nuno Santos, tactical analyst Ricardo Formosinho and Tottenham’s head of first-team performance Carlos Lalin in a rented house.
And the Spurs boss, who famously called old rival Arsene Wenger a ‘specialist in failure’, revealed: “We try our best, we don’t have our families with us but we are big friends and friends are family and we work a lot.
“Time flies and when it comes to cooking we try as simple as possible so I’m the fried egg specialist and the other guys, they are a bit better than I am.
“I miss football but I try not to be selfish — just balanced and human.
“I prefer to say I miss our world — football is part of that. But we have to be patient and fight our fight. I prefer to wait for better days.
“I’m so sorry for families destroyed by bad news.”
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Source: Soccer - thesun.co.uk
