{"id":13594,"date":"2025-03-25T20:03:21","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T21:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/?p=13594"},"modified":"2025-03-25T21:35:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T21:35:52","slug":"ange-postecoglou-faces-losing-tottenham-favourite-amid-atletico-madrid-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/25\/ange-postecoglou-faces-losing-tottenham-favourite-amid-atletico-madrid-interest\/","title":{"rendered":"Ange Postecoglou faces losing Tottenham favourite amid Atletico Madrid interest"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ange Postecoglou will want to keep hold of Cristian Romero this summer (Picture: Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Atletico Madrid<\/a> are considering a summer move for Tottenham<\/a> defender Cristian Romero, in what would be a blow for manager Ange Postecoglou<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Argentina international has had an injury-hit season, making just 14 Premier League<\/a> appearances, thanks largely to a hamstring problem.<\/p>\n

However, he is fit again and has been in action with Argentina in the current international break, starting against Uruguay on Saturday.<\/p>\n

He will be back in the Tottenham starting XI when they go to Chelsea next week, but he may not be at the club much longer.<\/p>\n

Sky Sports<\/a> report that Atletico Madrid are very interested in signing the centre-back and have a decent chance of getting the 26-year-old in the next transfer window.<\/p>\n

The former Atalanta defender is out of contract in 2027, meaning Spurs will soon start running out of time to cash in on him, unless he signs a new deal with the club.<\/p>\n

With the north Londoners struggling in 14th in the Premier League table, the club may well struggle to convince him to sign a new contract, unless they can fight their way back into the Champions League by winning the Europa League this season.<\/p>\n

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Cristian Romero joined Tottenham from Atalanta in 2021 (Picture: Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Romero was a substantial investment at \u00a343m and this summer could be Tottenham’s only chance to make a profit on the tough-tackling centre-back.<\/p>\n

The Argentine may well be tempted to make the step up to Atletico Madrid and work with his countryman Diego Simeone at a club which is regularly in the Champions League and challenges for La Liga titles.<\/p>\n

He has already voiced his frustrations with the way Tottenham is run, pointing out that the club struggles to strengthen the squad on a regular enough basis to compete with the biggest teams in the land.<\/p>\n

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It is little surprise that Diego Simeone lacks Cristian Romero’s style (Picture: Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Speaking earlier this season Romero told Telemundo Deportes: ‘Manchester City competes every year, you see how Liverpool strengthens its squad, Chelsea strengthens their squad, doesn’t do well, strengthens again, and now they’re seeing results.<\/p>\n

‘Those are the things to imitate. You have to realise that something is going wrong, hopefully, they (the board) realise it.<\/p>\n

‘The last few years, it’s always the same – first the players, then the coaching staff changes, and it’s always the same people responsible.<\/p>\n

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Romero has been in international action for Argentina (Picture: Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

‘Hopefully they realise who the true responsible ones are and we move forward because it’s a beautiful club that, with the structure it has, could easily be competing for the title every year.’<\/p>\n

Postecoglou did not entirely condemn Romero for his words, but said he spoke to him about them and his defender apologised for the way he went about things.<\/p>\n

Speaking in December, the Australian said: ‘He realises that a lot of what he said was good but some wasn’t the right way of dealing with it. The same way I wouldn’t criticise a player publicly.<\/p>\n

‘I’ve spoken to Cristian about it and he’s apologised for it. It wasn’t the right way to do it. It shows he cares. There’s a way to do it and this wasn’t it.’<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ange Postecoglou will want to keep hold of Cristian Romero this summer (Picture: Getty Images) Atletico Madrid are considering a summer move for Tottenham defender Cristian Romero, in what would be a blow for manager Ange Postecoglou. The Argentina international has had an injury-hit season, making just 14 Premier League appearances, thanks largely to a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13596,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13594"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13594"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13601,"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13594\/revisions\/13601"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}