Mourinho became Chelsea boss in June 2004 and had a very successful time in charge which saw them win two Premier League titles, an FA Cup and two League Cups before he suddenly left in September 2007.<\/p>\n He came back for a second spell at Stamford Bridge in 2013 and while there was some success, his tenure came to a sorry end when he was sacked by the club in December 2015, the team were languishing in 16th place in the Premier League having won the title the season before.<\/p>\n The Portuguese will face Chelsea for the first time as Spurs boss but has played down any suggestion that he will be extra determined to get the three points because it\u2019s against a former club.<\/p>\n But Bent begs to differ and claims that he would always have a point to prove when playing against a former club and thinks Mourinho will feel the same.<\/p>\n Speaking on behalf of GentingBet, Bent said: \u201cI know Mourinho will say that playing his ex-team doesn\u2019t really mean anything but I can say as an ex-player that whenever I was playing against an old team, you always wanted to put one over on them.<\/p>\n \u201cWhether they let you go and you want to show them that they made the wrong decision or you decide to go because it\u2019s the best thing for your career and you want to show that you\u2019ve improved as a player. There\u2019s a lot riding on it.<\/p>\n \u201cIf he\u2019s going to say that this game doesn\u2019t mean anything to him then I think he\u2019s lying.\u201d<\/p>\n Spurs have undergone a mini-revival since Mourinho replaced Mauricio Pochettino last month.<\/p>\n They\u2019ve won four out of their last five Premier League matches and can actually leapfrog fourth-placed Chelsea with a win on Sunday.<\/p>\n Bent is backing his former club to seal a narrow victory, tipping 2-1 as the scoreline, and was full of praise for Mourinho\u2019s impact at the club.<\/p>\n He also believes there\u2019s no reason why they can\u2019t finish in the Champions League spots come May.<\/p>\n Bent said: \u201cThere was probably a time where no one would\u2019ve ever thought that Mourinho would in charge of Tottenham because the gulf between the two clubs was massive. Chelsea in the 00s were so dominant.<\/p>\n Tottenham\u2019s Premier League clash against Chelsea on Sunday means a lot more to Jose Mourinho than he\u2019s letting on. This is the view of former Spurs striker Darren Bent, who believes the \u2018Special One\u2019 will be eager to get one over on his former club. Spurs go into the game in much better form than […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":15733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6409],"tags":[8173,1911,169,5984,746,5579,405,4358,303,11973,499,267,7217,1935,9030,7419,723,10885,3954,594],"class_list":["post-17513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-bridge","tag-champions-league","tag-chelsea","tag-fa-cup","tag-feel","tag-gulf","tag-jose-mourinho","tag-mauricio-pochettino","tag-mourinho","tag-one","tag-pochettino","tag-premier-league","tag-sacked","tag-spurs","tag-success","tag-the-game","tag-tottenham","tag-victory","tag-will","tag-who"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17513"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51501,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17513\/revisions\/51501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Spurs](\"https:\/\/talksport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/12\/NINTCHDBPICT000546730085-e1576010226316.jpg?strip=all&w=960&quality=100\")
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