da aviator aposta： West Ham United would be wise to ignore calls from Irons icon Frank McAvennie to sign Tottenham Hotspur outcast Danny Rose.
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da bet7： Speaking with Football Insider, McAvennie has suggested Hammers boss David Moyes ought to look into signing Rose with the England international in the final year of his Spurs contract.
McAvennie feels Rose would offer Moyes much-need competition for places at left-back, having seen the defender’s future in north London thrust into further doubt by Jose Mourinho omitting the 29-year-old from his Premier League and Europa League squads.
Moyes has so far chosen to field Aaron Cresswell as his left-sided full-back once and trusted Arthur Masuaku in the role in four top-flight fixtures, while Rose has not featured in a Premier League game since the final day of last season when on loan with Newcastle United.
“He was a top player at Tottenham, but he seems to have fallen away recently,” McAvennie said. “A fantastic player on his day and he is not that old yet. I do not know if he would go to West Ham, but I always say it is good to have somebody pushing you.
“Cresswell is doing well at the moment but the team is doing well. He needs some competition to push him and Rose could do that.”
Rose, who earns £70,000-per-week with Spurs, snubbed a potential permanent move to Newcastle this summer following his half-season on loan in the North East, noting in August that he wished to play at least one more game for Tottenham.
Mourinho, however, overlooked the defender in Tottenham’s opening fixtures and will now no longer have the option of calling on Rose to feature in a league or European match until February at the earliest.
Moyes must ignore McAvennie
Like Mourinho, Moyes must overlook the prospect of calling on Rose to feature in his plans and ignore McAvennie’s suggestion to strike a deal for the 2021-free agent, as the Irons boss already has a better option in Masuaku.
Over his 23 Premier League appearances in the 2019/20 campaign – with both Tottenham and Newcastle – Rose only managed to record a mere 0.6 key balls, 0.4 accurate crosses, 0.7 successful dribbles and 1.7 tackles a game, per SofaScore. He also only managed to create just one big chance to score, never took a shot and committed two errors that led to goals.
Meanwhile, Masuaku has started the 2020/21 season in much stronger fashion with 1.5 key balls, 1.3 accurate crosses, 3.3 successful dribbles and 1.0 tackles a game. He has also already created two big chances to score and attempted 0.8 shots over his four appearances.
As well as Rose offering less in the Premier League last term than Masuaku has thus far this season, Mourinho’s comments on the outcast defender highlight further reasons why he would not aid Moyes in the way McAvennie has used to justify a swoop.
Speaking in September amid interest from the Serie A, Mourinho said of Rose via quotes by The Sun: “If Genoa get Danny Rose, they get a good player. If they get a good player in the last year of his contract, they’re in a privileged position to do a good deal.
“If Danny Rose goes there, I wish him all the best. It’s one of the things that was very clear from one of the Amazon bits is that Danny is the kind of guy who wants to play all the time.
“Some players are more adapted to belong to a squad with quality where competition is higher. Other players are only happy if they’re in a club where they play all the time.”
Rose falls into the latter category of wanting to play every game, but his form over recent years would not suggest he would be a certainty at the London Stadium.
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