Jose Mourinho

No, I always felt that the biggest investment Tottenham could do was what they did in previous seasons, which was to keep their best players.

That's the biggest investment you can do.

And some clubs, they can do both.

They can keep the best players and they can buy players.

other top players.

Some they don't and they have to make a choice.

Do we sell to rebuild the team or do we keep the top players that we had?

And I think they showed clearly that the group was fantastic.

Lots of young players, lots of English players.

You could feel from the outside great empathy between them.

Of course, they were very, very close to make history.

And in the beginning of this season, when we spoke for the first time and we had that funny joke where I was saying the four candidates are...

CTA, CTB, Tottenham and...

and Liverpool, I thought I was right.

I thought that Tottenham could, because once more they kept the best players, they got Dombele, they got Lo Celso, they made some readjustment in a crucial area of the team and I thought they would be ready for that jump.

I don't like to keep players that don't want to stay in the club.

I think it's always really, really difficult.

I'm not even thinking by the economical perspective of the cash in or don't cash in.

I feel by the motivational point of view.

You remember, we sold Robben to Real Madrid.