The veteran Premier League manager believes that Spurs must make a ruthless decision regarding one defender at the club.
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Ex Premier League manager Sam Allardyce has called on Tottenham Hotspur interim boss Igor Tudor to make the ruthless call of dropping centre-back Cristian Romero after Thomas Frank failed to get control of the centre-back.
Tudor has been appointed in charge of the side until the end of the season following the sacking of Frank and will look to guide the club away from the threat of relegation. Spurs sit 16th in the Premier League and just five points above a resurgent West Ham in 18th.
One player who may have ultimately cost Frank his job is Cristian Romero. The Argentina international made the headlines for all the wrong reasons during the manager’s final week in the post.
Sam Allardyce slams ‘irrational’ Cristian Romero
Romero lashed out at the club’s ‘disgraceful’ injury crisis and had been defended publicly by Frank, the manager insisting that the issue had been handled internally. The defender then went flying into a tackle against Manchester United and saw a straight red card, picking up a four match ban and costing his side the chance of a result against the Red Devils.
For Allardyce, stripping the player of captaincy and leaving him out the side may be the best call for Tudor. He told the No Tippy Tappy Football podcast: “Cristian Romero is one of those typical players who just doesn’t learn. He’s got so much talent, but so many flaws which he hasn’t eradicated. He’s still making the same mistakes as when he first signed for Tottenham.
“Either he gets stripped of the captaincy, or someone says to him, ‘stay on your feet, I don’t want you to go to ground when you tackle anymore’, and if he continues to do it, then take him out of the side. He’s giving his managers a bad reputation for not being able to control him.
“If you’re a centre-half, your first priority is being a defender, not how good you are with the ball – that’s only an added bonus. Romero is just so irrational, which is alright when you first join a club, but he should have been nailed by Thomas Frank for it and he wasn’t.”
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