Hugo Lloris reveals Tottenham players' concerns over Amazon documentary: 'We had to be careful all the time'

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Hugo Lloris has revealed the concerns Tottenham Hotspur players had with the club’s decision to allow an all-access documentary to follow them during the 2019-20 season.

The six-part All or Nothing: Tottenham Hotspur followed the team for the duration of that campaign, a year where manager Mauricio Pochettino was sacked and replaced with Jose Mourinho.

It also covered the club’s first season at their new stadium and took in the shutting down of football entirely following the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Spurs had reached the Champions League final the previous season, a high-point of the hugely successful Pochettino era at the club.

Lloris has revealed in his newly-published autobiography that the squad struggled to recover from defeat to Liverpool in that final, a situation that the players felt was only made more difficult by the introduction of a film crew to document almost every aspect of their professional lives.

“Everything was hard after that, for Mauricio and for us,” he writes in Hugo Lloris: Earning my Spurs.

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“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,” he says adding that the training ground dressing room was the only area agreed to be out of bounds for filming.

“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.”

Lloris made 444 appearances for Tottenham in all competitions after arriving from Lyon in 2012. He was made club captain in 2015 and held the role until being replaced by Son Heung-min in August 2023 ahead of his departure in the following December.

The former France international joined LAFC in Major League Soccer and has gone to make 44 appearances, keeping 17 clean sheets. LAFC are next in action against Vancouver in the MLS Playoffs on Friday.

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