Danny Rose has only had a few appearances to date in his Newcastle career, and while he may not have shown his quality on the pitch, he looks to have shown it in the dressing room.
If you’ve followed Rose’s career – especially his recent career – Rose’s impact on a dressing room hasn’t always come across as a good one.
For example, before Rose departed Spurs, the Sun’s Deputy Head of Sport Martin Lipton told talkSPORT that the club were “desperate to get rid”, and that “there are some players who feel that he has been destabilising this season”.
Whether these reports are true or not are hard to distinguish. Yet the way in which Steve Bruce has been talking about him suggests quite the opposite – which is encouraging for Newcastle fans, especially with recent reports suggesting that the club will sign him in the summer.
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The Newcastle manager has made it clear that this is a player he wants going into the future. Rose only has one-year left on his contract the time July 1 comes around – and Bruce has not hidden his desire to sign the defender on a permanent basis.
He told the Chronicle: “He is an established quality player.
“We managed to get him through the door and he will be great for the next three months. And hopefully longer after that.
“He is a great thinker to have in the dressing room.
“When he walked through the door gave everybody a lift. That is what a really good player does.
“He is what you call stick on quality. He was England’s left-back only last November.
“I am delighted with him. That is the quality we brought in and that is the quality we aspire to. That is what we need.”
His performances haven’t quite been there since arriving from Spurs – something which he has openly admitted himself – but he wasn’t really given the time to get his season up and running before the campaign was delayed with the coronavirus outbreak.
Thus far he has only played on five occasions in the Premier League for Toon and has played a part in three clean sheets from those games. Nevertheless, his statistics on WhoScored aren’t particularly great reading, with their algorithm only scoring him with an average of 6.29 from those five appearances.
However, while the performances are not there yet, you can see that the effect he has may run deeper than his individual performances on the pitch – and that can only be a positive going forward.