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Thomas Frank’s worrying reply as Tottenham boss grilled on Cristian Romero future

The Spurs gaffer remained coy when quizzed in regards to the Argentine’s future.

Cristian Romero’s future has been questioned in latest weeks (Picture: Getty)

Thomas Frank has confessed he has “no thought” if Cristian Romero will stay at Tottenham subsequent season, following the captain’s obvious frustration over the membership’s lack of signings within the winter switch window. The 27-year-old expressed his disappointment on Instagram shortly after the switch window shut this week, lamenting the scarcity of accessible gamers after he needed to be substituted at half-time throughout Spurs’ 2-2 draw with Manchester Metropolis as a result of sickness.

The Tottenham captain posted: “I needed to be accessible to assist them though I wasn’t feeling nicely, particularly since we solely had 11 gamers accessible – unbelievable however true and disgraceful.” Frank confirmed that regardless of Romero’s latest outburst, he would stay as captain and said that the membership had addressed the problem internally.

Romero, who has contributed six objectives and 4 assists amidst Tottenham’s struggles underneath Frank, is reportedly eager to depart this summer season in accordance with stories from his dwelling nation. This comes regardless of the World Cup-winning centre-back signing a four-year contract final August.

When questioned about whether or not he expects the Argentine worldwide to remain on the membership subsequent season, Frank admitted: “That is a query I do not know about. Proper now he’s the captain, he has a long-term contract and we signed a brand new contract with him.” Whereas not referring to Romero particularly, Frank said that any participant who may be sad ought to nonetheless be anticipated to fulfil their skilled duties.

“So long as everybody does their job, it’s honest sufficient. I’m fairly positive there are additionally some gamers who do not suppose I’m the most effective bloke or no matter it’s, however so long as they work laborious and do all the things they’ll on the pitch then I’m pleased,” he mentioned.

Cristian Romero is one in all Tottenham’s most necessary gamers (Picture: Getty)

“Is the sensation higher if everyone seems to be aligned and pleased and likes one another? In all probability. However it’s all in regards to the performances on the pitch. On the whole in his time right here, [Romero] has been distinctive [in my time here]. I feel he has had some unbelievably huge video games for us, not solely defensively however he has additionally scored some essential objectives. I feel there’s, generally, over time, there’s at all times one line you can not cross. For any participant, for me, for any workers members, for anybody,” admitted Frank.

Following final month’s loss at Bournemouth, Romero had posted about sure folks at Spurs who “solely present up when issues are going nicely, to inform a couple of lies”, earlier than eradicating the ultimate 5 phrases of that assertion. After that episode Frank had mentioned of Romero that “you can also make a mistake however do not make the identical mistake twice”.

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Now it appears Romero has repeated his actions and Frank was reminded of his earlier feedback. “I feel typically somebody makes multiple mistake. We’ve got handled it internally,” he said.

“Management is many issues. I am 52-years-old. I feel I am fairly good at management. Can I get higher each single day? Sure. Do I make errors? Possibly not each single day however in all probability weekly. Romero is 27. Is he nonetheless going to make errors going ahead as a frontrunner? Sure. Does he do a number of good issues? Sure.”

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