Former Tottenham owner Alan Sugar and Jermaine Jenas have clashed over the future of Danny Rose.

Linked with Manchester United, Rose upset Sugar when questioning Tottenham's ambition earlier this season.

On BBC Sport, Sugar said: "If you go back to the great Sir Alex Ferguson, if he had a player like Danny Rose make a statement like he did in the media, he would have been dead meat, gone."

Ex-Spurs midfielder Jenas, a fellow guest on the BBC show, retorted: "What he spoke was the truth.

"Yes, he shouldn't have said it and he shouldn't have done it in the way that he did. And I can understand why at the top end of a football club you would just say 'listen, get out mate, that's not how we go on'.

"But the only problem with that is at Manchester United, when you're dead and finished and kicked out the door, inevitably you go down. When you're at Tottenham and you're Danny Rose and you get kicked out the door, you go up. He'll go to Man City, or PSG… He can go to all of these places."

Sugar replied: "Not now, Jermaine, because we are a contender now. We came second last year. We are a big club now. We really are a big club."