Danny Rose has expressed his sadness at Tim Sherwood's Aston Villa departure and is hopeful the former Tottenham boss will be back in football soon.
Rose has established himself as Tottenham's first-choice left-back under Mauricio Pochettino despite the £10m signing of Ben Davies in the summer of 2014 and he credits Sherwood for keeping faith with him when he was struggling early in his Spurs career.
Rose, who along with team-mates Dele Alli and Kieran Trippier was present at White Hart Lane to re-launch the club's remembrance poppy wall, told Sky Sports News HQ: "It's not nice seeing any manager losing his job, especially Tim because I've known him a long time and he's very passionate about his job.
"I don't think anything surprises me now with how quick managers can lose their jobs. Reading about it in the media you could sense someone was going to lose their job sooner or later and I'm sorry it's Tim.
"I've known Tim since he came to the club in 2008 and he's been great for me. A couple of seasons ago when he was a manager here I wasn't playing that well and he stuck by me every game, played me every game that I was fit and gave me great advice.
"When I was on loan at Sunderland, whenever there was a game that was on TV Tim was the first person to text me and tell me I'd done well, so I've got a great relationship with him and I hope he comes back into football as soon as possible."