Former England international Danny Rose has revealed he sought legal advice after learning what he thought was a private conversation with Jose Mourinho at Tottenham had been filmed without his knowledge.
Rose claimed he was unaware then Spurs boss Mourinho had allowed Amazon Prime's 'All or Nothing' documentary makers to install cameras in the manager's office, unlike his predecessor Mauricio Pochettino.
'When Poch was there, there was no cameras in his office, he didn't allow that,' Rose told former Spurs and England teammate Kyle Walker on the BBC Podcast 'You'll Never Beat Kyle Walker'.
'So when I've gone to knock the door I'm assuming there's still no cameras in the office, but they've put one in now and I didn't know that.
'This chat is in December. I'd gone on loan to Newcastle in January, and I didn't then get notified by one of the lads until May, that they've got this and they're putting it in. So yeah, I weren't happy. I had to get legal advice.'
In one of the most memorable clips from the six-part series broadcast in August and September of 2020, Rose knocked on the door of Mourinho's office to ask why he wasn't in the team even though he was training well and saying he would rather train at home if he wasn't going to play.
Mourinho told him he had been selected for a game against Liverpool and not played well. Rose agreed but the conversation descended into a row with Rose promising to go and see chairman Daniel Levy.
'It's a completely normal conversation,' Rose told Walker. 'Any player who's not playing on a Saturday, the first thing you do, knock on the door.'
Rose, who won 29 England caps between 2016-19, never played for Tottenham again.
He left at the end of the 2020-21 season after 14 years at the club and joined Watford, for whom he made nine appearances before agreeing to cancel his contract in 2022.
Rose joins his former Spurs captain, Hugo Lloris, in becoming one of the former players to have spoken out at the club's decision to partake in the documentary.
In his new book, Hugo Lloris: Earning my Spurs, he explained: 'Tensions that would only grow following a decision by the club which would affect the team’s day-to-day lives; a decision made without the consent of either the squad or the manager: to install cameras everywhere for Amazon’s series about Spurs.
'In light of the sum mentioned – around ten million pounds – we wondered whether those whose season and activities would be affected, all those being asked to mic-up each day, would get a cut. The answer wasn’t slow in coming: no.
'So when the film crew placed little microphones on some of the canteen tables, we went and sat at other ones. We had to be careful all the time. The only place where we could speak freely was the training dressing room – we’d got them to agree that it would remain out of bounds.
'Otherwise, they had mics and cameras everywhere – even at some practice sessions, which was no small matter: it was a constraint and it had consequences'.
Danny Rose was speaking to former Spurs and England teammate Kyle Walker on the BBC Podcast 'You'll Never Beat Kyle Walker'