Watford have bolstered their defensive ranks ahead of their return to the Premier League next season with the signing of Danny Rose.
Rose has put pen-to-paper on a two-year deal at the Hornets and will join the club as a free agent from Tottenham on July 1.
The deal sees the 30-year-old left back return to Vicarage Road, having spent a loan spell there during the latter part of the 2008-09 campaign – featuring seven times.
Former England international Rose came through the Leeds youth set-up before joining Tottenham in 2007 and went on to make 241 appearances, being a key part of Mauricio Pochettino’s team that challenged for honours over a number of seasons.
However, the experienced defender, who won 29 England caps, found himself out of favour under Jose Mourinho and spent the second half of the 2019-20 season on loan at Newcastle.
After vowing to allow his sizeable contract at Spurs to run down, Rose found himself banished to the Under 23s set-up and was not even registered in the club’s Premier League squad in 2020-21 – meaning his last appearance for the club came in 1-0 home defeat by Liverpool during the 2019-20 top flight.
Much of his plight under Mourinho was caught on camera in Amazon Prime Video’s All or Nothing documentary.
The defender was shown having a confrontation with the Portuguese coach about why he was not being selected, threatening to go and see chairman Daniel Levy about his plight over a perceived preferential treatment to other players.
