Danny Rose left out of Tottenham's pre-season tour of Asia as he edges closer to departure
Danny Rose will not travel with the Tottenham Hotspur squad to Singapore on Wednesday for the club’s pre-season tour in Asia and instead the left-back will stay behind in England with a view to him being sold.
Rose, 29, is valued at around £25 million with two years left on his deal at Spurs and has been available since last summer although there is yet to be a committed buyer. The latest development, that for the time being will see him prepare for the new season without his team-mates, demonstrates that club and player both see this as potentially the end of their 12-year association.
Everton showed interest in Rose last summer although Lucas Digne, signed from Barcelona, has since been a success in Rose’s position. Rose has said that he favours a move back to the north, near where he grew up in South Yorkshire, and he was once a target for Manchester United although that is no longer a possibility. So too at Manchester City where the club have activated the buy-back clause on the Spanish left-back Angelino to sign him from PSV Eindhoven.
Rose’s impressive end to last season means that both parties are confident there should be interest in him. Should there be no offer that is acceptable to club and player then Rose will be part of Mauricio Pochettino’s first team squad for the start of next season. There has been no falling out between the player and club and he has been granted a longer break than many of his England international team-mates who also played in the Nations League last month.
Spurs travel first to Singapore where on Sunday they play Juventus, a club who have also looked at Rose in the past. The squad then travel on to Shanghai where they play Manchester United a week on Thursday. Those players who have represented their countries at the African Cup of Nations and Copa America, including Victor Wanyama, Serge Aurier and Davinson Sanchez, will also not be travelling. Eric Dier is undergoing rehabilitation from a medical procedure for a problem detected in pre-season assessments and will stay in London.
In May, Rose said that a club interested in signing him in the summer transfer window last year had expressed doubts because he has been open in the past about mental health issues. He said at the time “They [the potential buyers] said: ‘The club would like to meet you, just to check that you’re not crazy,’ because of what I’d said and what I’d been through.”
Spurs remain committed to the signing of Fulham 19-year-old Ryan Sessegnon whom they see as a long-term successor to Rose. Sessegnon has always preferred a move to Spurs and with one year remaining on his contract will have to be sold this summer by the Championship club.
