Troy Parrott: Tottenham fans do not know what striker even looks like, says Jose Mourinho

Jose Mourinho has said some of the Tottenham fans who are demanding Troy Parrott gets game time do not even know what he looks like.

Mourinho has come under big pressure to play the 18-year-old as Spurs are short of any other recognised strikers, with Harry Kane and Heung-Min Son out injured.

Parrott has been a prolific scorer at youth level and has already played for the Republic of Ireland, but has yet to play a full 90 minutes of senior football.

Mourinho is regularly repeating his message that Parrott is not ready to come in and replace Kane or Son, but that does not stop Spurs fans placing expectations at the teenager’s door.

„This is a world where lots of people, they don’t even know if Troy has long hair or short hair,“ Mourinho said.

„Or is blonde or is dark. They don’t even know that and speak about: Troy, Troy, Troy, Troy, he should play.

„There was a guy behind me on the bench the other day: Play Troy, play Troy. I don’t think he knows Troy.“

Mourinho did play Parrott that day, but only for three minutes in the 3-2 defeat to Wolves.

He was sent to play for the under-23s on Monday with a clear message to prove why he is ahead of his fellow team-mates, something he did with a goal in his 45-minute outing.

It is a message that Mourinho is finding himself repeating, having encountered a similar issue with Scott McTominay at Manchester United.

Mourinho sees similarities in the pair’s attitude and hopes the end result will be the same.

„I was so happy with the way he performed and I’m not speaking about the goal that he scored,“ Mourinho said of Parrott’s outing in the under-23s.

„I told him before the game, every time you play with the kids of your age, you have to show your colleagues why you are the privileged one.

„Why you are training in the first team every day and some of them are not – they are still in the group age. Because it was something that he was not doing.

„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.

„I have no problem to say because I know that he will confirm – I had exactly the same words with Scott McTominay.

„At the moment, he was not loved in his group age. 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.

„He was the best in everything, the best in attitude, the best in 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.

„So 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.“

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