Romero Calls Out Tottenham Hierarchy After Spurs’ Latest Defeat

‎Cristian Romero seemed to criticise Tottenham’s board for remaining silent during the club’s difficulties.

‎After Wednesday’s 3-2 loss to Bournemouth, the captain posted a strongly worded message that initially accused the hierarchy of telling “lies,” but that line was later edited out.

‎What stayed on Romero’s Instagram post, however, was an apparent appeal for the Spurs directors to speak up.

‎After another loss, Tottenham sit on five points from their last six games, with three defeats in that span, and fans are directing abuse at the players.

‎“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,” Romero’s post said.

‎“They only show up when things are going well.”

‎In the initial post, the second sentence had read, “They only show up when things are going well, to tell a few lies.”

‎Since Daniel Levy, who rarely spoke publicly, was ousted from his Spurs chairmanship in early September, a new leadership structure has been in place.

‎Peter Charrington, appointed to the board in March, moved into a newly created post as non-executive chair. Vinai Venkatesham has served as chief executive since June.

‎The club is run by the Lewis family through a family trust, connected to Joe Lewis, the British businessman and former Spurs owner.

‎The head coach, Thomas Frank, said he and the co-sporting director, Johan Lange, had spoken to Romero on Thursday. “A lot of the things he’s done well on and off the pitch, I’m happy with,” Frank said.

‎“But also, when you’re a young leader, sometimes you make a mistake. Of course, it’s good to keep it internally. Johan and I had a good conversation with him this morning about everything, which we of course keep internally.”

‎Romero had also posted, “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.”

‎His message concluded: “Especially at times like this, keeping quiet, working harder and moving forward all together, is part of football. All together, it will be easier.”

‎The Spurs striker Richarlison responded to Romero’s message with a hand-clapping emoji and another teammate, Pedro Porro, posted a response that began: “Amen.”

‎Frank, under growing pressure with Spurs 14th in the Premier League, said Mohammed Kudus was not expected to return from injury until April. Frank was pictured at Bournemouth holding an Arsenal-branded cup after Spurs’ arch rivals played at the stadium last weekend.

“I definitely did not notice it,” he said.

‎“It’s fair to say not winning every single football match, it would be absolutely stupid of me to [intentionally] take an Arsenal cup.”

‎Tottenham host Aston Villa in the ​FA Cup third round on Saturday.