Andros Townsend told TalkSport (27/10/20 at 10am start) that Danny Rose has been wrongly perceived in Tottenham’s All or Nothing documentary.
The Crystal Palace winger believes Rose’s infamous confrontation with Jose Mourinho in his office seems to show that the discarded left-back is being ‘rude’ and ‘disrespectful’, but that’s far from the truth.
Rose was in and out, mainly out, of Tottenham’s squad for the first half of last season before being sent out to Newcastle on loan – he has since been frozen out and hasn’t been handed a squad number.
That Rose-Mourinho confrontation is something that happens on a regular occurrence, according to Townsend, who made it clear that his former teammate is ‘not a problem player’.
“I think people outside of football don’t really know what goes on inside the manager’s office or inside the dressing room,” Townsend told TalkSport.
“So, when they see that [Rose’s confrontation with Mourinho which was aired in the documentary] they think ‘Oh my God, Danny Rose, how rude, how this, how that and how disrespectful to the manager’. But us players watching that, we know these conversations happen every other day in the manager’s office. If the players not playing, he wants to find out why.
“So, for me, watching that. Danny’s not a problem player. It’s just Danny is unhappy that he’s not playing and he wants to know why, which is a daily occurrence in football.”
There has to be some serious magic done in North London for Rose to turn his situation around because it seems now it’s a case of seeing down his contract.
The arrival of Sergio Reguilon in the summer, added with Ben Davies, proves that Rose is now just making up the numbers, and not even that.
It’s a crying shame that his career has gone in the wrong direction during such a crucial period, but in truth, it was stagnating way before Mourinho walked through the Tottenham doors.
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