Ange Postecoglou shares if Cristian Romero is actually set for punishment after slamming Tottenham's spending

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Tottenham Hotspur centre-back Cristian Romero has recently been in the headlines.

Cristian Romero was critical of Tottenham, urging them to imitate clubs such as Manchester City, Liverpool and Chelsea in terms of how well consistently they invest into signing new players every season.

The Spurs colossus said via BBC Sport: “Manchester City competes every year, you see how Liverpool strengthens its squad, Chelsea strengthens their squad, doesn’t do well, strengthens again, and now they’re seeing results. Those are the things to imitate.”

“You have to realise that something is going wrong, hopefully, they [the board] realise it.”

The Tottenham defender claimed that due to the club’s lack of ambition in the transfer market, they are stuck in a vicious cycle where there is little to no stability due to constantly offloading coaches and players.

“The last few years, it’s always the same, first, the players, then the coaching staff changes and it’s always the same people responsible.”

“Hopefully, they realise who the true responsible ones are and we move forward because it’s a beautiful club that, with the structure it has, could easily be competing for the title every year.”

So far, Romero does not have much to fear about regarding the repetitiveness surrounding Spurs as Ange Postecoglou’s job at Tottenham is safe, as per a revelation on Friday.

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Ange Postecoglou confirms no Cristian Romero punishment despite comments

In his latest press conference ahead of the North London side’s clash against Rangers, Postecoglou confirmed that the World Cup winner will not get punished despite his statement.

The Tottenham boss revealed via HaytersTV: “I just think you deal with these things internally. I know people get really salacious about punishments and stuff or that sort of thing, I think I’m pretty consistent in saying, I don’t think that’s important.”

Ange Postecouglou also disclosed that Romero has apologised for airing out his complaints publicly.

“What’s more important is an understanding of how we should deal with these things and deal with them better and already spoken to Cristian [Romero] about it and like I said, he’s apologised about it, for the way he said it, particularly in the public sense wasn’t the right way to go about things.”

“He is a human being, he got emotional and he expressed probably in the wrong way. He does care, I think it would’ve been easy not to say anything, he does care. But like I said, there’s a way to do things and the way to express yourself and the way he did it wasn’t the right way.”

Romero is currently injured and it seems like now, his focus will shift towards becoming fully-fit once again.

Tottenham sit in 11th place in the Premier League table, having already lost seven games this season.

Spurs’ collapse from being two goals up against Chelsea to eventually losing 4-3 summed up the disappointing season they are having.

Jamie Carragher slammed Romero against Chelsea after backheeling the ball inside his own box, which he felt lead to his injury.

Postecoglou agrees with Romero that Tottenham should aspire to be like Man City, Liverpool and Chelsea

During his press conference, where Ange Postecoglou agreed with Romero is that Tottenham should aspire to be as successful as Manchester City, Liverpool and Chelsea season upon season.

The former Celtic boss initially said: “Look, it depends kind of on, you know in what respect I think. We know there are things we can compete, I don’t think it’s, like I said, I don’t think it’s just about finances.”

“Yes, finances, where the club sits, we kind of know there’s a gap but not between just us and most clubs and some of those clubs. But within that context, I don’t think it doesn’t mean you can’t be competitive in your own way.”

“I think what Cristian [Romero] was kind of talking about and it’s kind of what I believe as well is we should aim to think like those clubs and try to be successful every year.”

Tottenham fans will be content with the fact that the controversy surrounding Romero’s comments seems to have died down after Ange Postecoglou’s reaction to it.

Spurs supporters will hope that the Argentine is back on the pitch soon enough and is ready to help the club turn their stagnating campaign around.