Manchester United and Manchester City both target Kyle Walker and Danny Rose in £60m transfer battle for Tottenham duo
The two marauding full-backs have only recently signed new deals at White Hart Lane, so it would take huge offers to snap them up
JOSE MOURINHO will take on Pep Guardiola in a bid to sign Spurs’ flying full-backs Kyle Walker and Danny Rose.
The Manchester United boss wants his club to push the boat out with a sensational £60million move for BOTH England internationals.
Walker and Rose, both 26, have been in outstanding form over the past 18 months and can operate effectively as wing-backs or in a flat back four. City have been keen on the duo since Guardiola’s move to the Etihad was first mooted two years ago.
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But Mourinho, whose United take on Hull in the first-leg of the EFL Cup semi-final at Old Trafford on Tuesday, is determined to put a spanner in his great rival’s works.
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Former Barcelona and Bayern Munich boss Guardiola knew it would take two summer transfer windows to re-build City in his own image.
And he had always planned to recruit full-backs this year with left-sided Rose his No 1 target.
Walker and Rose both signed new five-year deals at White Hart Lane worth around £70,000 per week early this season.
And neither has a release clause in their agreements — so either Manchester club would need to pay in excess of £30million per player to even tempt Tottenham.
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There appears little chance of Spurs chairman Daniel Levy selling both players in the same summer. But he might be willing to cash-in on one if there is a serious offer on the table.
Rose, who has 12 England caps, cost Spurs just £1m when he joined from Leeds in July 2007.
He was subject of a bid from Chelsea in the summer of 2015.
And French giants Paris Saint-Germain have had their scouts keeping an eye on his progress.
Right-sided Walker, who has played for his country 23 times, followed Rose to London in 2009 in a £9m deal from Sheffield United that also included fellow defender Kyle Naughton, who is now at Swansea.
