Rose: Daniel Lee (Danny)

2006-2007 (Player Details)

Midfield

Born: Doncaster: 02-07-1990

Debut: None

Height&Weight: 5'8" 11st 11lb (2009)

Rose was a product of the Leeds Academy and after being a trainee signed professional forms on 1st July 2006. He was famously the subject of attempted poaching by Chelsea and while two Leeds players took the bait Rose snubbed Chelsea and chose to remain with Leeds. While Rose did not actually appear for United he was an unused substitute in the League Cup-tie at Elland Road against Chester City on 22nd August 2006 when only sixteen. It seemed as though it was just a matter of time before he made his first team debut. He was impressive for England Under-Seventeens in February 2007 when he started in two of the three games in the Algarve Tournament and then played all three games in the European Under-Seventeen Championship Elite qualifying rounds, scoring against Bosnia and Azerbaijan. He then played all five games in the European Championship Finals in Belgium in May as England were eventually beaten by Spain in the final. On such a stage it was inevitable that his talents would be noticed and sure enough Tottenham Hotspur beat off opposition from Liverpool to take Rose to White Hart Lane for a reported £1 million in July 2007, days after his seventeenth birthday. He joined other former United and England stars Paul Robinson (£1.5 million) in 2004 and Aaron Lennon (£1 million) in 2005, both of whom had proved bargains at such ridiculously low transfer fees. No doubt Rose will follow in their footsteps. A skilful, attacking midfielder, initially hampered by a shin injury, he impressed in reserve action and featured ten times for in his first season, scoring once. His performances earned a call into the first team squad and he was on the bench for the home game against Sunderland in January, 2008. A regular at England youth level, Danny was in England Under-Eighteen action in April, 2008. His progress was temporarily curtailed, however, by a serious knee injury in September 2008. In March 2009 Danny Rose went on loan to Watford for the remainder of the season. He made his debut in Watford's 2–1 away victory at Doncaster Rovers on 4th April 2009 and started three League games and came on as a substitute in four more. On 1st June 2009, he was called into the England Under-Twenty-one squad for the European Championships and made his debut with a substitute appearance in a 7-0 win over Azerbaijan in a friendly on 8th June 2009. QPR wanted Danny Rose on a season-long loan from Spurs after winger Lee Cook was to be out for four months. Former Leeds boss Kevin Blackwell tried to get Rose on a six-month loan for Sheffield United, as Harry Redknapp made it known that he was keen for Rose to get regular games. Redknapp gave him an eighteen minutes substitution at his home-town team Doncaster Rovers in the League Cup on 26th August 2009. On 29th September 2009, Rose turned down a chance to go to his hometown team when he opted to join Peterborough United on loan until January 2010. He went straight into the run on eleven the same day at home to Plymouth Argyle. He returned to Tottenham on 11th November 2009, having started four League games and being a substitute in two more. He made his full Spurs debut in the 2-2 draw with his former club, Leeds United in the F.A. Cup on 23rd January 2010 at White Hart Lane. He made his League debut against Arsenal, on 14th April 2010, scoring after just ten minutes. It was a goal that was acclaimed as the best of the season. At the end of the 2009-10 season his Tottenham Hotspur record stood at one goal in one League game, one start and two games from the bench in the F.A. Cup and one substitute appearance in the League Cup. He has scored twice in ten games for England Under-Seventeens, scored once in six Under-Nineteen games and once in eight games for England Under-Twenty-ones. He signed a contract extension which will keep him at Tottenham until 2013.