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Cristian Romero has 'reached agreement' to leave

mawspurs

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Spanish journalist Ruben Uria has said on his Twitch stream that Romero has given his agreement to a five-year deal at Atletico Madrid, with publication AS claiming that the defender will push for a move at the end of the season.

Source: Four Four Two
 

chico

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Romero talented, and at his best he is fab. However, he's a bit injury prone, and reckless discipline wise. Sell him and buy Guehi? Nice trade if we could do it.
Fancy Levy will want a fancy price.
 

aliyid

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Levy rubbing his hands when he hears there's already an agreement in place.

"So you've committed yourself to the player have you? Looks like the price has gone up an extra £20m if you want him"
 

WorcesterTHFC

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He can agree all he wants with Atletico, agreeing with Daniel isn’t going to be as easy
His current contract expires on June 30, 2027. From the following day, he'd be a free agent and would be allowed to agree a deal with any club he fancies, but he's a Spurs player unless and until Levy says otherwise.
 

Dunc2610

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If he wants to go (clear he does) I hope we get a deal done quickly so the we can reinvest the money!
 

Japhet

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Romero talented, and at his best he is fab. However, he's a bit injury prone, and reckless discipline wise. Sell him and buy Guehi? Nice trade if we could do it.
Fancy Levy will want a fancy price.

We won't get anywhere near Guehi.
 

TOLBINY

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His current contract expires on June 30, 2027. From the following day, he'd be a free agent and would be allowed to agree a deal with any club he fancies, but he's a Spurs player unless and until Levy says otherwise.
Kane / City repeating itself. If we want more than AM are prepared to pay then there will be no deal. If Romero stays he most likely won't sign an new deal, so his value diminishes month by month. I say get as much as we can this summer.

Seeing Cuti play under Simeone's instructions could be fun!
 

Neon_Knight_

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I wasn't aware that players could "agree" to join a new club before the final six months of their contract. If Atletico has been in talks with Romero, they've just given Levy extra leverage in negotiations that are already in his favour (well within contract - check, highly thought of World Cup winner - check, proven in more than one of the top leagues - check, experienced but still has his best years ahead of him - check). I'm honestly not sure Levy will let him go for a price that they can afford. I'm thinking the >£80m, which would be their record signing if they hadn't overpaid so heavily for Felix 5 years ago (they made a 60% loss on him).
 

TonyK

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Romero talented, and at his best he is fab. However, he's a bit injury prone, and reckless discipline wise. Sell him and buy Guehi? Nice trade if we could do it.
Fancy Levy will want a fancy price.
That's exactly what we should do Chico - replace Romero with another quality player such as Marc Guehi. The problem is that Levy will think that he can get away with spending 20m of any fee received to directly replace Romero. And then the rest of the fee will then be spent buying cheaper / younger / lower quality Levy punts that will only further dilute the quality of our squad. See how the Gareth Bale and HK fees have been spent rather than buying direct replacements. This is why we are where we are now.
 

JUSTINSIGNAL

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That's exactly what we should do Chico - replace Romero with another quality player such as Marc Guehi. The problem is that Levy will think that he can get away with spending 20m of any fee received to directly replace Romero. And then the rest of the fee will then be spent buying cheaper / younger / lower quality Levy punts that will only further dilute the quality of our squad. See how the Gareth Bale and HK fees have been spent rather than buying direct replacements. This is why we are where we are now.

You reckon? So how did we end up spending £45m on VDV and £50m on Romero himself, if Levy only wants to spend £20m on starting centre backs?
 

jakuba

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They'll do the usual 'We're Spanish and impoverished' bullshit.
That won’t get this lot so far when they paid £70m+ on Alvarez last summer and a £35m on Gallagher in the last year of his contract.

Atletico are flush and everyone knows it. They’re one only clubs I’d be confident of getting a decent fee from in fact. We’ve done fairly straightforward business with them before too with getting £20m+ out of them for Trippier who had been stinking the gaff out that season.

It’s actually the likelihood of reinvestment I’m more concerned about than actually getting a decent fee.
 

Gassin's finest

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Dillspur

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Romero and Spurs has always felt like a marriage of convenience. I've never really felt he was 100% "in" and that he always had an eye on his next club.
 

yiddopaul

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Apparently a 'world class player'. He may very well be world class for Argentina, but he has never been world class for us. Very good player in patches, but too many injuries, and poor discipline (though that side had gotten better).
 

Huddlebone

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Paratici is back and all of a sudden roumers comes out to put Real in that All in spot ;)
 
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