From today's presser:
He spoke with the medical staff. Together they decided to go to Argentina to complete the rehab with the Argentinean medical staff. We spoke last week. With me he showed always his desire to stay with us. He is injured. I'm not stupid. If I understand there is any player who thinks for himself before the club, I can't be the same Roberto. But with Cuti Romero I can't say nothing because with me he has been correct from when I started until now.
Roberto De Zerbi if he understands why Spurs fans are so unhappy with Cristian Romero and he said "100%."
He also said on the Spurs skipper: "Not all leaders are the same. Ben Davies spoke with me and he asked to stay today with us and he wants to stay with the team in the Lodge in the hotel with his team-mates, but Romero is preparing for the World Cup.
RDZ started off with a polite comment but obviously he is drawing quite a clear comparison with Ben. A player who actually has the right character to captain this club.
The quote on Davies is extremely revealing. "Not all leaders are the same" is pretty much as much of a mug off he can say about Romero without directly laying into him. He's obviously being as diplomatic as possible, but pretty clear RDZ is not impressed with Romero wanting to go back to Argentina.
Anyone blaming the club for this is way out of line here. It is all on Romero and his priorities and his character.
Absolutely nobody with any sense of responsibility as a leader would even ask to go back to Argentina at this time. Let alone a captain. It beggars belief really.
The reality is that Romero shouldn't have even engaged in discussion about returning to Argentina, injured or not. He should have turned around and said no chance, I am here with my teammates. He could have even delivered a rousing speech to the team as captains can do. There are millions things he could have done, but what is not on, is him fucking off to Argentina.
He could have literally gone on Monday after the game. But no, he obviously wants to go back for the cup final in Argentina. He's very clearly turned around and said I don't really care about Spurs.
He's a cunt end of.
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