A good section of the Tottenham fan base will probably be glad to see the back of Danny Rose on a permanent basis following his latest comments.
Rose looks to be preparing for a career as a loudmouth pundit as he continues to moan just about everything.
After his interview in 2017 where he criticised Spurs for their transfer business and their contract offers to their players, the Newcastle loanee has continuously run his mouth on issues outside of playing for his team.
After falling out of favour with Jose Mourinho at the Tottenham Stadium and earning a loan move to Newcastle United, one would think that he would keep his mouth shut and prove that he is a talented footballer.
However, his recent comments further cement the fact that he is just an average footballer who may have forgotten how to play the game and is simply looking to make noise and let others forget that he cannot actually play the game.
Speaking on the return to football training this week he said, as quoted by the Sheffield Gazette:
“I’m dying to get back to football, but just with the things that are happening right now, people are going through this coronavirus pandemic a lot worse than me, I don’t want to be complaining about everything,” said the 29-year-old.
“Just off the fact that people are suggesting we should go back to football, like we’re guinea pigs or lab rats. We’ve going to experiment this phase and see if it works or not. I can just imagine people at home saying ‘well, they earn that amount of money, so they should be going back’.
“For stuff like that, I think ‘is it worth the hassle?’. I could be potentially risking my health for people’s entertainment, and that’s not something I want to be involved in if I’m honest.”
And Rose did not stop there, he then went on to reveal a discussion he had with the Newcastle manager Steve Bruce, throwing confidentiality out of the window saying,
“I was having my breakfast the next day, and then I saw Steve Bruce coming up on my phone,” said Rose. “So I was like ‘oh no!’.
“I let it ring for about 30 seconds, and then I thought ‘I’d better answer this’. So I went in another room and I spoke to him, and he said I just need to word things a bit better if I’m going to do things like that.
“He explained the measures that they’re going to do to make things safe. Obviously, I’ve seen the headlines, and we, as footballers and people in the public, we have a platform.”
Rose added: “I know I maybe could have worded what I said a bit better, but six weeks ago (health secretary) Matt Hancock was saying that footballers need to half their wages.
“Now we’re needed to hopefully try to entertain people. People need to make their minds up.”
You tend to give certain players some wriggle room when they run their mouths off if they have been half decent on the field of play, Rose simply has not earned that right and is just another footballer with very limited talent that believes his voice is worth listening to.