Rose understands Pochettino plan after reaching major European final

Danny Rose admits he never set his sights as high as winning the Champions League with Tottenham.

The defender was famously outspoken in his desire for Spurs to sign big-name players to take them to the next level but in his mind that was lifting a domestic cup. Boss Mauricio Poch et ti no, pictured, has always said, however, that winning the Pre - mier League or Champions League should be the aim.

People questioned the Argentine’ s in difference towards the FA Cup and Carabao Cup, but Spurs are 90 minutes away from glory as they take on Liverpool in Saturday’s Champions League final in Madrid.

Rose openly says the idea of winning the Champions League never entered his mind.

“Since I’ve been at the club, being in a Champions League final has never ever entered my thought process,” he said.

“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.

“To think that we’re 90 minutes away from maybe lifting the Champions League, I never thought that could happen at Totten ham. Now I understand what he [Pochettino] means, it wasn’t that I didn’t believe him, I just didn’t understand.

“It shows that’s why he’s the manager and I’m the player.”

Rose and his team-mates have already gone further in Europe’s premier cup competition than any other Tottenham side.

Rose added: “I’ve been here a long time. To think that we could become legends after 90 minutes is amazing. 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 comp e tition in club football, we want to win. We want to show the world that the project the manager star ted five years ago is coming. 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.”