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da bet vitoria： Danny Rose has appeared to take a dig at Tottenham Hotspur chairman Daniel Levy, per The Guardian, and has confirmed he has not had a single conversation with manager Jose Mourinho.
What’s he said?
Asked after Spurs’ 3-1 Champions League defeat to Bayern Munich how it felt to have a manager such as the former Real Madrid boss in control, Rose is said to have replied: “Who said he’s in control of the club?”
Of course, the left-back almost left north London in the summer, even travelling to Watford’s training ground on deadline day.
He has previously said that he will not countenance the possibility of leaving in the summer and that he wants to see out his contract at the club, which expires at the end of next season.
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And he has confirmed that he has yet to sit down and chat with Mourinho about his future.
He said: “I’ve never had a conversation with him [Mourinho] and I don’t see why I need to.
“As I said before, I’m here for the next 18 months, so I don’t see why I need to have a conversation with the manager.
“I want to do as well as I possibly can, work as hard as I can to achieve what looked impossible a few weeks ago, and that is finishing in the top four [of the Premier League].”
Appalling attitude
Rose has history for this.
He has given tell-all interviews in the past, outlining his desires to leave Spurs and then to stay at Spurs and now he is admitting that he couldn’t care less about talking to his own manager.
The shot at Levy is unnecessary in the extreme; managers aren’t given full control when they take over, obviously, and to suggest they are would be imbecilic.
But to say he has no need to talk to Mourinho – maybe even to pick his brains about tactics – is an absolute nonsense.
Rose needs to do better and, while he is set on staying at the club, it doesn’t appear that he’ll be winning many friends while he does so.
Meanwhile, one Spurs ace was in terrible form against Bayern Munich.