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Cristian Romero

Muttley said:
I love the way that football fans get out of the box over "their" players heading away to play for their country.

For me, it is yet another RIP Football moment. The toxic broadcasting companies and their collaboration with the toxic Premier League have total thought control over fans nowadays. Money rules. These fans can't go back to being that 8 year old kid in the playground wanting to be Bobby Moore, Bryan Robson or Terry Butcher. I will never lose that, whether it is football, rugby, cricket or any other sport.

I have absolutely no gripe with Romero or any other player wanting to play for their country. It is the pinnacle of any sporting career. If Spurs are happy to play Romero in the games leading up to the international break then it's obvious that he needs to represent his country. They are World Cup qualifiers after all. What player wouldn't want to get an international cap?

Fans also forget the amount of times that players have used international breaks to get back to full fitness and form and the club has benefitted. Way more than where they pick up injuries. They forget about the mental health of players who get to the visit their home countries after months away in a foreign country. Having that quality time with best friends and family members, albeit briefly due to the international commitments.

One man's opinion.
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Agree with your point. But the reason why Romero gets on some people's nerves is because Romero seems to use Spurs to get his fitness up in preparation of playing for Argentina, not the other way round :D.....
 
He is good, but not for the epl. Can't win headers, often caught out of position and not sufficient leadership of the defence. I'd cash out and reinvest. Not like we're going to win anything soon, so let's continue rebuilding
P.D. said:
I don't think he's actually that good, quality passer but when I watch replays of goals conceded he is the chief culprit who's always out of position. Maybe it's just our general approach to defending but good defenders can still shine in bad teams. I'd rather someone like Guehi especially when Romero always seems to be injured.

We also have to consider that he's one of the few players we could get a decent fee for.
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Glenda's Legs said:
I would also hazard a guess that there is a not insubstantial crossover of fans who want us to be signing elite-level, ‘oven-ready’ players and fans who don’t want our players or accepting international call-ups. If that is the calibre of player we want/need, then international duty is part and parcel of the package.
Of course an injured player being called up is more of an issue - but if the above article is accurate and it is with the club’s agreement, then that is fair enough (assuming he is back playing by the time of the international break).
You are right also about the positive aspect of using these games to gain fitness and even if playing time is limited, he is still training at a high level.
Friendlies however I have more of a problem with.
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Yeah, I did go and look at the fixtures to see whether one or both were friendlies.

It does sound like the club were consulted before selection and even after they are still in a position where they can advise that he shouldn't go. Nobody really know until he kicks a ball in anger, hopefully on Thursday.

I was thinking as well that Argentina still have a dependency on the Otamendi / Romero axis. They don't seem blessed with loads of centre halves like England or France. You can't blame their manager for keeping a close eye on Romero's fitness and form. Perhaps a little like when we had Kane and he'd start the friendly as well as the competitive fixture. He was Southgate's captain and there was no way the player was going to settle for just being on the bench.
 
My daughter sent me this from a forum she goes on, thought it made more insight then the usual slagging off that Romero gets from some on here.

Argentina have played 58 games since June 2021. Romero has played 40. That's 69% of games.

Spurs have played 187 games in the same timeframe. Romero has played 112. That's 60% of games.

Fair enough, point proven, you might think.

I mean, it's not exactly on the level of, say, Darren Anderton, who, IIRC, played more minutes for England than he did for Spurs between June '95 and June '96, but, still, there's a fair old gap there.

However, up until the Chelsea game where he got injured, Spurs had played 167 games.

Romero's 112 at that point therefore gives us an availability of 67% of games.

And, frankly, the difference between 67% and 69% availability is not much more than a rounding error.

And certainly not enough to justify all the carping and bleating about Romero only ever being available for Argentina that I read on here for a good couple of years before that Chelsea game.

But, hey, never mind the facts.

No, let's instead let this utterly baseless, long-standing, pant-wetting hysteria about his availability infect the discourse of this thread so that, in the run-up to the squad being announced, there are several variations of 'fudging hell, I bet Romero will be fit for Argentina', just so everyone could shout 'boo, hiss, fudge it, sell him now' because, horror of horrors, an Argentine international has been called up by Argentina's national team.


For me, it's quite simple.

There are several reasons why top class players might want to leave Tottenham in its current state.

I'd rather that we didn't add 'chased out of the club in a fit of pique by a bunch of hysterics who failed remedial maths' to the list please.

Thanks.
 
I think it’s completely ridiculous that Romero gets the blame for his country having the audacity to call him up. I mean where in all that is it his fault that his country have identified him as one of their best players?! I very doubt he’s faking been injured the rest of the time. With the frequency at which Internationals come around, of course it’s always likely that he will be selected and travel to play, but that’s in recognition of just how good a player he is, and the type of player that we should be desperate to have at the club, not pushing away with fabricated narratives.
 
parklane1 said:
My daughter sent me this from a forum she goes on, thought it made more insight then the usual slagging off that Romero gets from some on here.

Argentina have played 58 games since June 2021. Romero has played 40. That's 69% of games.

Spurs have played 187 games in the same timeframe. Romero has played 112. That's 60% of games.

Fair enough, point proven, you might think.

I mean, it's not exactly on the level of, say, Darren Anderton, who, IIRC, played more minutes for England than he did for Spurs between June '95 and June '96, but, still, there's a fair old gap there.

However, up until the Chelsea game where he got injured, Spurs had played 167 games.

Romero's 112 at that point therefore gives us an availability of 67% of games.

And, frankly, the difference between 67% and 69% availability is not much more than a rounding error.

And certainly not enough to justify all the carping and bleating about Romero only ever being available for Argentina that I read on here for a good couple of years before that Chelsea game.

But, hey, never mind the facts.

No, let's instead let this utterly baseless, long-standing, pant-wetting hysteria about his availability infect the discourse of this thread so that, in the run-up to the squad being announced, there are several variations of 'fudging hell, I bet Romero will be fit for Argentina', just so everyone could shout 'boo, hiss, fudge it, sell him now' because, horror of horrors, an Argentine international has been called up by Argentina's national team.


For me, it's quite simple.

There are several reasons why top class players might want to leave Tottenham in its current state.

I'd rather that we didn't add 'chased out of the club in a fit of pique by a bunch of hysterics who failed remedial maths' to the list please.

Thanks.
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Well now had he been available for Spurs 69% of the time he would have played 15 more games for us.
 
johnola said:
Well now had he been available for Spurs 69% of the time he would have played 15 more games for us.
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It's a coincidence of scheduling. If there had been any international matches scheduled in the last 3 months he would have missed those too and his availability % for Argentina would have dropped significantly considering the small number of games they actually play. It's just that at the same time that he is returning to the team, the international matches are due to happen.
 
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