‘You can have the best house, but if the furniture isn’t the best, it’s irrelevant!’: Former Tottenham star Danny Rose DESTROYS his former side after Champions League knockout by AC Milan… but holds back to avoid being BANNED from using his training floor!
- Tottenham was knocked out of the Champions League against Italian AC Milan
- Former Spurs defender Danny Rose led the investigation while covering the second leg.
- But Rose had to bite his tongue a bit to avoid being sanctioned by the club.
Danny Rose demanded more responsibility at Tottenham when he tore his old team apart after their Champions League exit against AC Milan.
Spurs drew 0-0 in their round of 16 second leg and, having lost 1-0 at the San Siro, means a fifth elimination from the knockout phase since reaching the final in 2019.
Rose, who is currently a free agent after a spell at Watford, was totally taken aback by Wednesday night’s weak performance but had to bite his tongue a bit to avoid being banned from the club’s training ground.
“You say they have the best stadium…you can have the best house, but if the furniture isn’t the best on the inside, then it’s irrelevant,” Rose said while covering the game. sky sports.
“Going up the pecking order… I’m still looking to go to Spurs training ground so I’ll have to be careful what I say but I think everyone needs to be held accountable.”
Tottenham managed just two shots on goal on the night and it was a miserable night that leaves Antonio Conte’s future at the club up in the air.
Rose started against Liverpool in the 2019 Champions League final, but his former team now faces a 15th successive trophyless season.
In 2017, when he was playing for Tottenham, Rose criticized the recruitment and this led to a fine on his salary.
Fast forward to 2023 and Rose is again unconvinced by the quality of player the Spurs have brought.
“I heard something recently that the signings have not been good and it’s strange, since I’m sure I said something like that six years ago and they fined me two weeks’ salary, but here we are,” he added.
“Everyone needs to be held accountable and I think it will be interesting to see where they go from here until the end of the season.”
Tottenham, who sit fourth in the Premier League, lost to Championship team Sheffield United in the FA Cup fifth round and Nottingham Forest in the Carabao Cup third round earlier this season.
After Wednesday’s deadlock, Conte revealed that he fears he will be sacked by Tottenham before the end of the season.
“My contract expires in June,” Conte told Italian television after Wednesday’s goalless draw.
“We’ll see, they might fire me even before the end of the season, who knows, maybe they’ll be disappointed.”
Conte lamented Tottenham’s lack of cutting edge as they slipped feebly out of the Champions League.
“That’s the third game in a row that we couldn’t score,” Conte said.
‘The game was in the balance. I think we can do much better offensively. I’m talking about the whole team, not just those who play up front. We can do much better.’
And he added: ‘I can’t say anything negative about the commitment of the players.
“They gave everything from the beginning to the end. We finished the game with 10 men. But if I have to see a positive situation, it is that we had a step forward.
We played in the Europa Conference League last year and we couldn’t get past the group stage. Now we have taken a step forward but it is not enough and if we want to be competitive, we have to fight.’