{"id":591406,"date":"2026-08-12T23:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T23:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/591406\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T23:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T23:08:08","slug":"tottenham-transfer-news-atletico-madrid-agree-deal-for-tottenhams-cristian-romero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/591406\/","title":{"rendered":"Tottenham transfer news: Atletico Madrid agree deal for Tottenham’s Cristian Romero"},"content":{"rendered":"

Atletico Madrid have agreed a \u00a334.2m (40m euros) fee to sign Cristian Romero from Tottenham<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The 28-year-old is set to become Atletico’s fourth signing of the summer, while Spurs will also retain a 15 per cent sell-on clause as part of the deal.<\/p>\n

Argentina international Romero was the subject of interest from Premier League champions Arsenal in recent days,<\/a> but Tottenham<\/a> did not want to sell their captain to their north London rivals.<\/p>\n

He leaves Tottenham<\/a> after five seasons, having made 156 appearances for them, scoring 13 times, following an initial campaign on loan from Atalanta in 2021.<\/p>\n

The centre-back played for Argentina during their run to the World Cup final this summer, missing just one game.<\/p>\n

Romero was scheduled to return to pre-season with Spurs in the coming week after being given extra time off following the tournament in North America. <\/p>\n

He captained the side last season as Tottenham<\/a> narrowly avoided relegation from the Premier League.<\/p>\n

Having signed permanently from Atalanta in a \u00a342.5m deal, Romero became a key figure in their defence.<\/p>\n

The news will be a blow to Spurs fans who are also set to lose Djed Spence to Inter Milan<\/a>, who are in advanced talks to sign the England full-back in a \u00a325.6m (30m euros) deal.<\/p>\n

With the additions of midfielders Kang-in Lee and Morten Hjulmand and left-back Alejandro Grimaldo, Atletico are set to take their transfer spending over \u00a3100m this summer should they complete the Romero deal.<\/p>\n

Head coach Diego Simeone is aiming to strengthen his squad after they finished fourth in La Liga last season, with Villarreal beating them to third place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Atletico Madrid have agreed a \u00a334.2m (40m euros) fee to sign Cristian Romero from Tottenham. The 28-year-old is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":591407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-591406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}