Yes he played for our academy and reserves, but that still doesn't put him in the same category as winks, king, Kane et al.
With regards to 'making him the player he is today' you could say that for a number of players in our squad. Don't forget that he spent a large part of his early career with us out on loan and this would have also influenced his development
He only had one big loan and that was to sunderland. Apart from that all of his development and re-traingin into a LB has been as part of the first team squad.... prior to that he was a bit part left winger who mostly played for the reserve team. It was only after Bale made LW/LF his own towards the end of Harry's tenure, that Redknapp talked about moving Danny to LB and it has been 4-5 years in the making to this point...
People forget but he is the longest serving player at spurs at the moment. He has spent more time here than a lot of academy graduates do in total so by now I would say that he is as invested in this club as anyone else coming up through the ranks.