Is the Danny Rose story true?


Is the Danny Rose story true?

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It seems a strange fee for Danny Rose being reported

Over on Twitter, @ParisUnited6 have reported that Tottenham Hotspur have set an obligatory £22.44 million (€25m) fee for England left-back Danny Rose.

Spurs chairman Daniel Levy is said to want a transfer or a season-long loan with an option to purchase after Mauricio Pochettino decided he is not totally committed to the Spurs project and can thus leave.

Rose was considering leaving the club before Pochettino arrived and the Argentinian told him he would turn him into an international left-back, which he did. He improved Rose's game immensely, but in no time at all, it seems the 28-year-old (29 next July) wants to go again.

I pointed out last season that his mentality was all wrong and sure enough, he subsequently came out in the press and talked about depression. It explained his going through the motions performances and the patient Ben Davies was the beneficiary, stepping into his shoes as our number one left-back.

The suggestion is that with the move has been given the go-ahead by the Sports Director of PSG Antero Henrique and his right-hand man Luis Ferrer.

Now if Daniel Levy was demanding at least £70 million (€78m) for Toby Alderweireld, sold Kyle Walker for £50 million (€55.71m), is asking £22.44 million (€25m) for Mousa Dembele with just one year left on his contract and quite rightly demands top prices for players, why would he let Danny Rose go for a pittance in today's market, just £22.44 million (€25m)?

He is under contract until 2021.

Aston Villa wanted £40 million (€44.57m) for just a Championship player!

Rose joined Spurs in 2007 from Leeds United for £1 million (€1.11m) and there is a 10% sell-on profit clause meaning Leeds United would get £2.14 million (€2.38m) from this sale reducing our element to £20.3 million (€22.62m).

It just doesn't sound Daniel Levy like.


Is Rose that much of an unsettling influence?

Are Spurs deciding he has given valued service and are pricing him so that he can get a move?

Does Mauricio Pochettino want him gone at all coats this summer?

Is the story true?

If we sell him then that is one less non-homegrown player we can name in our UEFA Champions League squad, it seems very strange that all the talk should be about him now.

Surely if we had decided to sell him there would have been a lot more in the press to keep his name in the frame earlier in the window.

If the story is true you have to wonder what he has said behind the scenes and whether he has waited until our window has shut so that time constraints would mean his price drops?

The issue raises so many questions we don't have the answers to.

It sounds to me that the French are feeding the press the figure they would like to pay rather than the one being asked for.

I'm very sceptical of this.

COYS

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