He punched Steve Kerr in practice!
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Player Cristian Romero
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Come the champ lge games, Romero will play well and not get sent off. Same for the World Cup. When he thinks it’s a meaningless game he just seems to lose.it
Wish he was playing on Sunday though.
The cut off for ten yellow cards is the 32nd league game . So he has 3 games before that so just avoid a booking in two of those and he’s ok. Games are Liverpool A. ForestH. Sunderland A. Not sure if he can manage that. Have Forest got a Brazilian centre forward.
The Roy Keane example is neither here nor there - the game was completely different - if he was playing like that in the modern game he would get booked or sent off every single game and have to completely change the way he was playing.
Yes
However I also think he’ll subconsciously reign it in under Tudor, he clearly never respected Frank (no serious person would tbf) and Tudor would command exactly that.
He was on the end of the Jordan Rules Detroit Pistons, there’s ZERO chance he survived and won as much as he did without learning how to get away with hurting people physically.
He threw punches and poked eyeballs against Reggie Miller and Bill Laimbeer.
It’s only in today’s over sanitized sports that Romero is even considered dirty. He would’ve been tame compared to the 90’s
Sorry, I meant to add in practice, but then another poster says he punched someone.
The major difference with those two though was they were at the absolute top of their game, often carried the team and rarely put in a shit performance.
I’m not sure the same can be said for Romero.
Romero is direct opposite to Keane, he would have eaten Romero alive if he only showed up on the big days. Keane is still an icon 20 years after he retired because he had standards like no one else, everytime he trained or played it was 100% focus and 100% effort. Yes, he frightened people but people also craved his respect because it was such a rare accolade, Keane's respect probably meant as much to some players as winning player of the year award.
He was hugely respected.
He was also lucky enough to be playing the game when a two footed, head-high tackle only warranted a talking to, or a yellow card if it was your 5th one in a game. I can't imagine he'd have been the same player with VAR.
Cos theyre all dead ardCan anyone tell me why we are comparing Romero with Roy Keane and Michael Jordan?
Then why isn't Bryan Gil in the conversation?
When a trophy was on the line, did Romero not show up???
Keane also walked out on his country before a World Cup. Amazing how that gets glossed over.
Also didn’t Man Utd effectively cancel his contract for publicly trashing his teammates on the clubs in-house channel?
Did Keane only show up when a trophy was on the line?!
Roy Keane references are so passe.... None of his shtick on the pitch or in the locker room would translate to this era.
I am. It can't.
Like the manager before the last one, there is a perverse mystique about somebody nowhere as good as some believe.
To even put Romero into any kind of discussion alongside Keane and even more so Jordan is completely incomprehensible.
It just shows the disconnect between reality and perception.
No it isn't.
Of course the physical and intimidation aspects wouldn’t, but there was much more to his game than that.
He was a bloody good footballer that always gave 100%, that inspired those around him to raise their games.