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Danny Rose would 'love' to finish career at Tottenham Hotspur

Tottenham's longest-serving player Danny Rose says he wants to finish his career at the club and emulate club legend Ledley King.

England international Rose has made 126 appearances for Spurs and is into his 10th season at White Hart Lane, having joined from Leeds United as a teenager.

King, considered one of Tottenham's finest youth products, graduated from the club's academy and went on to make 323 appearances in all competitions before chronic knee problems forced him to retire in 2012.

Rose played alongside King for five years and he is full of admiration for his former teammate, who is now a club ambassador for Tottenham.

"I'm 26 now and starting to think about if I want to finish my career here and I'd love to do that," Rose told the club's official website. "There won't be many players able to say that they've been at a club for X amount of years.

"I'd love to be able to look back at the end of my career and think I'd been at a club for the whole of my career. That's the plan.

"You don't know what will happen in football but that's the plan, I want to be here for a long, long time and I hope while I'm here I get to win trophies as well."

He added: "Ledley is a legend. When you see him with the players, some will ask 'what was he like?' and there really are no words to describe how Ledley was as a player and as a man.

"He was quiet, but a leader. I saw the pain he had to go through to be out there on a Saturday. You wouldn't believe he'd missed most of the training sessions throughout the week and yet he'd be the best player on the pitch."