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Lucas Moura: Mourinho can lead Spurs to trophy glory

Lucas Moura is excited to be playing for new Tottenham manager Jose Mourinho.

Moura reckons Tottenham are ready to bully their way to their first piece of silverware for more than a decade, with Mourinho determined to convince them they are winners.

He said: “Now it's a big ­opportunity for us to learn with the new manager and we have everything we need – a very good coach who has a lot of experience and a lot to bring for us.

“I really believe we can win a trophy now.

“Each coach has a different mentality, he always talks to us, he tries to put in our ­mentality that we are strong, that we are a big club, that we are winners.

“He tries to put this ­mentality in us and then ­afterwards, tactically, step by step, his philosophy.

“But, especially, he wants to put this mentality – a strong mentality, that we are winners – in us and that we can win.

Burnley is the game we need to have as a reference.

“It was the best game with the new manager – from the first minute to the last we were aggressive – we didn't let Burnley play and that's the spirit we need to keep.

“We need to do it every game and if we do it – this aggressiveness, this concentration – then, with our quality we can go very far. We have a lot of things to improve on, but, step by step, at least this ­aggression and this intensity we need to show every game."

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