DANNY ROSE has claimed he never thought he would reach a Champions League final with Tottenham – as the Spurs squad jetted to Madrid for their clash with Liverpool.
The England left-back, 28, claimed he was so focused on domestic glory he failed to even consider European joy.
Rose famously slammed Spurs in 2017 in an exclusive interview with SunSport over the Tottenham's inability to compete.
But now he prepares to line-up at Madrid's Wanda Metropolitano for their monster Champions League final against five-time winners Liverpool.
And Rose revealed: “Since I’ve been at the club, being in a Champions League final has never ever entered my thought process.
“I wanted so much to win the Carabao Cup, the FA Cup and the Premier League.
“We’ve got to one final in the Carabao and two [FA Cup] semis, we’ve huffed and puffed in the league and ultimately never come close.
LEGENDS
“To think that we’re 90 minutes away from maybe lifting the Champions League, I never thought that could happen at Tottenham, it shows you anything can happen in football.
“Now I understand what [Pochettino] means – it wasn’t that I didn’t believe him, I just didn’t understand.
“Now I definitely understand, it shows that’s why he’s the manager and I’m the player.”
Rose went on to say the prospect of becoming a club legend is "amazing" – as he and his team-mates are just 90 minutes away from potentially realising that dream.
He added: “I’ve been here a long time. To think that we could become legends after 90 minutes is amazing, that’s got to be our motivation as well.
“No one expected us to be here at start of competition, no one expected us to be here after the quarters or the semis.
“We want to win for ourselves, the manager, the club, especially the fans. I don’t think we can think too much about, ‘if we win this, we’re going to be legends’.
“It’s the biggest competition in club football, we want to win. We want to show the world that the project the manager started five years ago is coming, it’s on its way
“We’ve got the stadium now, the training ground, we hope this is the first of many steps as long as the manager is here.”
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