Tottenham have rejected a jaw-dropping £70million bid from Chelsea for left-back Danny Rose, according to Harry Hotspur.
The independent Spurs fan site has claimed that the Blues submitted the sensational offer for the 27-year-old on Wednesday morning, just four days before the two London clubs meet in the league.
However, the north London club’s chairman Daniel Levy is said to have emphatically knocked it back as his club are to avoid losing another of their key players after seeing Kyle Walker depart for Manchester City earlier in the summer.
Good move for Tottenham?
A sum of £70million is crazy even by the increasingly lunatic standards of this summer’s market. Rose is a fine player, at the peak of his powers and would be a huge loss to a team with genuine title pretensions. But he is not worth £70million, not in a million years. Nevertheless, Spurs chiefs are right to knock back the stunning offer, if indeed it is true. They cannot sell a second member of the league’s best back four in 2016-17 to a direct rival, whatever the price. Rose paved the way for an exit with his explosive interview last week but Spurs will hold firm and hang tight.
This Is Futbol rating: 5/10
Likely to happen?
Not really, as Spurs would lose huge credibility if they sold a key first-teamer to a bitter rival before the month is out. They can just about get away with losing Walker, whose lung-busting runs and speed do not quite compensate for a lack of consistency with his final ball. But Rose showed before he suffered a knee injury in February that he is operating at an even higher level than his fellow full-back. Tottenham might be a selling club, but it is hard to see them offloading such a crucial player to Chelsea.
This Is Futbol rating: 3/10