The issue is not Danny Rose per se, it is the current free market of football. Forget for a moment the vastly inflated salaries of footballers and just imagine in any profession, would it be wrong to want to be at the top, achieve the honours and be paid the same as the other similar level members of the same profession? Isn't that called ambition? That is why I don't see what Rose has done wrong. The issue of whether I agree with footballers' wages is irrelevant because they are what they are and not likely to change soon. Btw David Pleat reminds me too much of darker times at Tottenham, we are in a much better place now, thanks to Poch, Danny Rose etc, so I have very little interest in his opinions. After all didn't he leave a smaller club to manage Spurs back in 1987?
I hope I am not taking your quote out of context. But, (per the bolded part), do you not see why people think Rose has done wrong here?
It's not a case of whether or not his opinions are right or wrong. They are his opinions and he has a right to hold them.
There is no argument that our players are underpaid compared to many of their peers.
There is little argument that we need probably 3 players into the squad this summer. There may be argument over whether they need to be "big names" (and what constitutes a "big name") versus decent squad players or younger players with development prospects.
There is no argument that our players want to win trophies. I'd be disappointed if they didn't.
But what Rose has done wrong (for many fans) is a) in his choice of how he has expressed these views publicly; and b) the timing.
The fact that it is the second time he has done it points clearly to an agenda. Many people, myself included, gave him the benefit of the doubt with the 5Live interview at the end of last season. Maybe we didn't want to believe there was any ulterior motive in what he was saying. It was an interview with his mate Jenas and he was just answering what he was asked (we thought).
This time he has made the effort to arrange a non-club authorised interview to speak out, not just about being underpaid, but to criticise his manager's transfer policy, to criticise the club's lack of ambition, to criticise the standard of his team-mates outside of our first 11.
It's looking at the whole of what he said, rather than each individual comment which on their own, may not seem too bad.
As for the timing, why this week? Why just before we start the season? How can it do anything other than draw all media pressure towards us and away from our rivals?
I also don't for one minute believe most of the players would be happy with the way he has gone about this.
I'm keen to see how this all pans out. He needs to stay this season, and earn his place. Otherwise speaking out against the club in the media could be seen as an easy way for any player to engineer a move. But that doesn't fit with Poch's attitude towards ill-discipline (which this could be viewed as being). I don't think we'll sell him this summer, but he has a huge amount of work to do to regain all the goodwill he has now lost. If he cares, of course.
It's a huge distraction that we don't need and has been stirred up totally unnecessarily.