Tottenham boss Jose Mourinho has urged Troy Parrott to follow the example of Manchester United midfielder Scott McTominay.

Mourinho has given Parrott the same pep talk he gave McTominay before he blooded the Scottish midfielder in his first season in charge of Manchester United.

The manager said: "I told him before the [u23s] game, every time you play with the kids of your age, you have to show your colleagues why you are the privileged one.

"I was not worried about scoring goals or not scoring goals. I was worried about attitude. What he can do. The way the other kids look at him. He has to go there and to show his attitude and professionalism and how privileged he is. He cannot go there with discontent - contempt.

"Every time he was playing with the kids, he was playing with the mentality of 'I shouldn't be here'. Or, 'I am too good to be here'. Or, 'It's not here that I want to play.' And this is an educational process that comes."

McTominay, who made his Premier League debut in May 2017 against Arsenal, went through the same one en-route to becoming a key player at Old Trafford.

Mourinho said: "I had exactly the same words with Scott McTominay. He was not loved in his age group because he was not with the right frame of mind.

"The moment we started changing that, lots of things started changing for him. And every time he was going to the team, he was the best in everything - attitude, character.

"This is the way you work with kids and if, in these generations, kids, they have things too easy in life, I think it's part of the education to also see the other side.

"I think Troy will come even stronger and stronger when everything happens step by step. And not immediately. Because he is not ready for immediately. So it is a process.

"If he plays [against Norwich] and he scores the winning goal, and he is the back page of your newspapers, nothing changes. The next week he goes again to play for the U23s. Everything is a process."