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Tottenham captain Cristian Romero has received a response from Thomas Frank to his public outburst - while he's also been linked with an exit.
Cristian Romero has been in the Tottenham headlines, yet again, after a very busy week on and off the pitch. It started very well for the Spurs captain as he was named player of the match for the 2-0 Champions League win over Eintracht Frankfurt, but it certainly did not end that way.
More injury problems saw Archie Gray at wing-back, with Joao Palhinha and Radu Dragusin joining Romero in the back three against Manchester City, but the latter was taken off at half-time with his side 2-0 down. Thomas Frank later revealed that he was ill and could not continue with Romero addressing that in an Instagram post.
Later on in the caption of that social media update, he also took aim at the club's hierarchy, once again, labelling the fact Spurs only had 11 senior players fit as disgraceful. In the wake of that, transfer rumours surrounding Romero have emerged with Frank providing a response in his latest press conference.
With all of that being said, football.london has rounded up the latest updates on Romero ahead of the Premier League clash against Man Utd - which Frank has confirmed he will be available for - with the incident handled internally.
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Atletico U-turn and transfer latest
Less than 24 hours on from his Instagram post, Argentine journalist Gaston Edul stated that Romero will be leaving Tottenham in the summer. He also claimed that one club came close to making a formal offer with interest present from Spain and another league.
Atletico Madrid have been strongly linked to signing Romero over these last 12 months, before the La Liga giants instead signed David Hancko.
However, perhaps sensing an opportunity, Diego Simeone's side have placed Romero back on their transfer radar, and are ready to pounce should he be available at the end of the season.
Fresh Instagram outburst
Romero took to Instagram following the 2-2 drew against Man City to pay a tribute to his teammates, but also criticise the club.
He said: "Great effort from all my teammates yesterday, they were incredible.
"I wanted to be available to help them even though I wasn't feeling well, especially since we only had 11 players available - unbelievable, but true and disgraceful.
"We’ll keep showing up and taking responsibility to turn this around, working hard and staying together.All that’s left is to thank all of you for being there and for always supporting us, the fans."
This is not the first time Romero has aimed thinly-veiled digs at the club with the defender urging others at the club to take responsibility for poor results.
After the 3-2 defeat to Bournemouth, he said: "Apologies to all fans of you who follow us everywhere, who are always there and will continue to be. We are responsible, there’s no doubt about that .I am the first.
"But we will keep facing up to it and trying to turn the situation around, for ourselves and for the club.At times like this, it should be other people coming out to speak, but they don’t — as has been happening for several years now. They only show up when things are going well.
"We’ll stay here, working, sticking together and giving our all to turn things around. Especially at times like this, keeping quiet, working harder and moving forward all together ,is part of football."
Frank response to social media comments
Unsurprisingly, Frank's Thursday press conference was dominated by Romero.
The first question was regarding what Frank thought he meant by those comments, to which he said: "If you want to know what he meant, you of course will need to ask him. That's the right way to take that question. Cuti's a very passionate character and player who wants to leave everything on the pitch and is very ambitious.
"He wants to win every single time. Sometimes when you are like that, sometimes there can be an outburst. It happened this time and it's something we of course dealt with and dealt with internally."
On how he feels about it, Frank added: "I think I said to you again, there are a lot of ways of doing things. Cuti has been very good for us this season and the past seasons. That's very important to be aware of. I wouldn't have done it. That is my message."
When asked if all the things Romero said were true, the Spurs boss replied: "I think the beauty of written text is that you can read a lot into it and nobody really knows what was the purpose of it except Cuti or the guys who have spoken to him. And everything is dealt with internally.
"I think it shows that Cuti is extremely passionate, he wants to win, he wants to do everything he can together with his teammates to achieve great things, but you need to ask him next time you speak to him."
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