The Tottenham players were put through their paces in front of journalists as part of the Europa League final media day at Hotspur Way.
Even though it is still nine days until the final in Bilbao where Spurs will take on Manchester United, there was a full day of events at the club's Enfield training complex ahead of it. First the media were able to watch a full training session for more than an hour and a half before interviewing a string of Tottenham players before and after Ange Postecoglou's latest press conference - his fifth in six days.
Tottenham had secured their place in the showpiece event in Spain with a 5-1 aggregate victory over Bodo/Glimt in the semi-finals before a much-changed side lost 2-0 against Crystal Palace in the Premier League on Sunday at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. That meant the training session had two very distinct sides to it.
Here's everything we spotted going on during the session at Hotspur Way.
What they did
The training session was split into two very distinct groups with those who started or played a decent chunk of the match against Palace going through recovery work while those who didn't play in the game were put through their paces in a normal training session.
They started off with the usual warm-ups, stretches and ball drills before that latter group moved across to another pitch to do some passing work in teams, both defensively and attacking, with two sides, one in Europa League bibs and the other without.
What was on display was also the coaching method under Postecoglou where he gives his staff 15 minute sessions each in order to keep training fresh and the players constantly engaged and moving from one thing to the next as each coach looks to make their session all the more interesting and fruitful.
The whole thing is signed off by Postecoglou and the coaches go through a briefing meeting afterwards to discuss what worked and what didn't and which players impressed and which ones, if any, weren't at the levels required.
Who was missing
There was one key absentee from the training session and that was Dejan Kulusevski, with the Swede having gone off just 15 minutes into the match against Palace.
football.london asked Postecoglou in his press conference how the 25-year-old was doing just nine days before the final in Spain.
"We'll see. He was a bit sore this morning with his knee. It looks like a knock at this stage but we're going to let it settle for 24 hours then assess it. But the initial thing was it's more of a knock than anything more significant," said the Spurs boss.
Also missing from the session were the other injured players James Maddison, Lucas Bergvall and Radu Dragusin as well as Dane Scarlett, who has undergone surgery on his groin.
There were various U21 youngsters involved to make up the numbers with the non-starters from the Palace game.
Spotting injured players
While Kulusevski could not be seen around the training ground, other players could be seen at times during the media day.
James Maddison gave reporters a little wave from the gym window as he continues his rehabilitation following a knee injury that will keep him out until later in pre-season this summer, a better prognosis than some inside Spurs feared in the days after the midfielder suffered the injury in the first leg of the semi-finals against Bodo/Glimt.
Lucas Bergvall suffered an ankle injury in training the day before that match and could be seen at one point to be walking around the training ground in the sunshine beside Radu Dragusin, who is back running on his way back from an anterior cruciate ligament injury suffered in February, and goalkeeper Antonin Kinksy. Dane Scarlett could also be seen walking into the academy area during the day, with Yves Bissouma also making a trip into the academy gym at one point.
An unfortunate slip
There was one moment during the section of the training session being taken by Ryan Mason that brought a scare for Postecoglou and Spurs.
Cristian Romero slid to slip a pass through to Brennan Johnson down the right during a keep ball exercise, and his team-mate during the drill, Sergio Reguilon, rushed towards him only to slip on the grass right in front of Johnson and wipe out the Wales international.
In real time at the training ground, it looked to the media from their position a little way off that the Spaniard had slide tackled his team-mate and it was only on re-watching it up close on video that you could see Reguilon lose his footing.
It was a painful one for Johnson though who remained down for a while holding his left foot and even when he got back up he limped for a while before eventually being able to take part again in the exercise. Romero teased Reguilon about it while someone shouted 'red card Reggy' on the pitch.
Postecoglou joked about it in his press conference, saying: "We’ve got enough injuries! I’ll put them in cotton wool for the next ten days. Seriously, with the way things have gone this year, any extra curricular activities are going to be at a minimum. I don’t know if you saw training today but we had Reggy tackle Brennan and they are on the same team. That goes to show how we’re going!"
He told football.london: "It seems to be how our season has gone. You want to protect the integrity of training and you have to train at a certain level. There are the quirks of things that happen. Thankfully nothing too serious. You’ve just got to hope and pray that the football gods have run out of challenges to throw to us this year."
The accidental moment certainly sparked plenty of jokes on social media from Manchester United fans with Reguilon having played on loan there last season and many of their supporters joking that he was "Agent Reguilon" on a mission to help them win the final by injuring Spurs players.
A chat in the sunshine
Postecoglou also enjoyed a nice moment in the warm weather about 20 minutes into the session when he spotted Rodrigo Bentancur and Pedro Porro and went over to sit between the two Spanish-speakers for quite a long time.
It was put to the Australian in his press conference that seeing him out there chatting for so long seemed a world away from the kind of image that's built of him not enjoying small talk and not getting close to his players. So has he got closer to this squad than any other?
"No, I think as you get older, I mean a lot of that stuff references when I was a younger manager, but you know as you get older you mellow a bit and you understand also that the world's changing and people need connections these days, it's important," he said.
"So it was a nice day. It's not often you can sit out in the grass out there, mate, and have a chat with the boys. It was just a general chat and they're both great guys, not just good footballers, but great guys and it's always good to get some feedback from them as well. They obviously played a bit yesterday and could see where the group's at. So yeah it's a fairly common occurrence, mate."