BT Sport pundits Rio Ferdinand, Glenn Hoddle and Peter Crouch have hammered Jose Mourinho ahead of Tottenham's clash at RB Leipzig.
Spurs face the German side on the road in the second leg of the last 16 of the Champions League tonight, having lost the first leg 1-0 at home.
Manchester United legend Ferdinand, former England boss Hoddle and ex-Tottenham star Crouch are all in the BT Sport studio for the game and aired their views on Mourinho before the contest.
Mourinho has offered up plenty of interviews of late and discussed the amount of injuries he currently has with the likes of Harry Kane out and tiredness in the squad, while the Portuguese manager has also criticised some of his players publicly.
And these issues were heavily criticised by the BT Sport pundits fixture ahead of the clash.
"The manager's interviews after games will not fill them with confidence," Ferdinand told BT Sport.
"I don't think so (Mourinho's tiredness claim). There are a lot of excuses. He (Nuno Espirito Santo at Wolves) has not been coming up with that.
"Hammer me in the changing room but he's doing it publicly and losing people. He had players at Chelsea and Inter Milan who were hardened. John Terry and Frank Lampard, he could criticise them and get a reaction, though I'm not sure he would have done that publicly. Players in this generation might be different and you have to adapt."
Hoddle continued with the criticism of Mourinho by saying: "We have heard all of his excuses. Mourinho needs to come up with something.
"Communication has failed with (Tanguy) Ndombele. I think there is a player in there."
Crouch added: "He has given them excuses. Taking (Olivier) Skip and Ndombele off was not great. I don't think criticising as openly as he has done is great. We have seen players down tools in the past quite easily and they could just do that again."
