Tottenham Hotspur are reported to have rebuffed summer time enquiries from Manchester United, Actual Madrid and Paris Saint-Germain for vice-captain Cristian Romero.
The defender is into his fourth yr with Spurs, and although he has been criticised for on-field disciplinary points, he stays amongst their most constant performers.
Romero’s performances at worldwide stage with Argentina, significantly throughout their 2022 World Cup triumph, have led to the likes of Lionel Messi hailing him as the most effective defender on this planet.
TyC Sports activities journalist Gaston Edul claims Romero was courted by United, Madrid and PSG over the summer time, with all three asking Tottenham of his availability.
Nonetheless, Spurs knocked again these approaches and refused to even put a price ticket on the 26-year-old, such is his significance to go coach Ange Postecoglou.
Romero is shut pals with Argentina teammate Lisandro Martinez, whose membership United ended up bringing in two new centre-backs over the summer time – Lille’s Leny Yoro and Bayern Munich’s Matthijs de Ligt.
Madrid centered their summer time efforts on the free signing of Kylian Mbappe, whereas additionally they onboarded Brazil striker Endrick. Lengthy-term harm to David Alaba and the departure of captain Nacho Fernandez meant the European champions have been tipped to usher in defensive reinforcements, with Al Nassr’s Aymeric Laporte closely linked, however they didn’t add one other centre-back to their ranks.
PSG continued their recruitment drive centered on bringing youthful gamers with potential versus world superstars. Not like Madrid, they did signal a brand new centre-back regardless of their curiosity in Romero, welcoming 22-year-old Willian Pacho by way of the Parc des Princes doorways from Eintracht Frankfurt.
Romero is one in all solely three pure centre-backs nonetheless on the books at Tottenham alongside Micky van de Ven and Radu Dragusin, who have been each signed throughout the final yr. Left-back Ben Davies can be able to deputising within the center too.
