Jose Mourinho revealed he told the Tottenham players on his appointment that he tried to buy some of them when he was manager for their rivals.
"I told the players that one of the reasons I decided to come was therm. I tried to buy some of them for different clubs and couldn't, some of them I didn't even try because it was impossible. I am not just saying that now, I have said for years.
"I want to respect the base of work that they have done for five years, it is an update not a change. I am here to try and understand why the results in the last year in the Premier League were not good. I am not here to make dramatic changes and create confusion in their brains.
"I am going to be very careful."
On what the team's playing style will be: "Very similar, that's what I keep saying. I will try to add some details and sometimes they can make the difference. Progressively we'll arrive to a fingerprint but the style of play should always be adapted - not to the club but to the players' qualities."
Mourinho also addressed whether sacked boss Mauricio Pochettino and Spurs struggled to recover from losing the Champions League final: "I don't know because I've never lost a Champions League final but I can imagine it's not easy. You reach one of the biggest moments you can achieve and you cannot do it.
"But Liverpool. One year they lost the Premier League by one point and the Champions League. Then the following season they're very strong in the Premier League and the season after they lost the Champions League final they won it."
