{"id":577816,"date":"2026-08-07T18:52:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T18:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/577816\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T18:52:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T18:52:12","slug":"tottenham-and-atletico-in-talks-over-romero-with-van-de-ven-set-to-sign-new-deal-transfer-window","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/577816\/","title":{"rendered":"Tottenham and Atl\u00e9tico in talks over Romero with Van de Ven set to sign new deal | Transfer window"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Tottenham are in talks with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/atleticomadrid\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Atl\u00e9tico Madrid<\/a> over the sale of Cristian Romero after categorically rejecting Arsenal\u2019s approach for the Argentina defender and are expected to agree a new five-year deal with Micky van de Ven.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Romero has made no secret of his desire to leave Spurs despite signing a new four-year contract at the start of last season and had looked set to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/jul\/26\/inter-enter-talks-with-tottenham-over-signing-captain-cristian-romero-transfer-window\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">join Inter for a fee of around \u00a335m<\/a>. But Atl\u00e9tico are long-term suitors of the 28-year-old and are thought to be his preferred destination, with Diego Simeone\u2019s side understood to be prepared to match Inter\u2019s bid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Reports in Spain on Friday suggested that personal terms have already been agreed with Romero, although his move may have to wait for Atl\u00e9tico to free up space in their squad before they can complete the transfer. Nahuel Molina, Romero\u2019s Argentina teammate, is expected to join Roma while Aston Villa are hoping to sign Matteo Ruggeri.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Arsenal had also made their interest known as they search for a replacement for William Saliba, with the Frenchman out for an extended period due to a back issue. However, Tottenham \u2013 who have signed defenders <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/jun\/18\/tottenham-52m-van-hecke-de-zerbi-defence\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jan Paul van Hecke<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/may\/25\/roberto-de-zerbi-spurs-saved-disaster-james-maddison-senesi-robertson\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marcos Senesi this summer<\/a> \u2013 insisted that they did not want to sell to another Premier League club, least of all their north London rivals. Arsenal are also interested in Villa\u2019s Ezri Konsa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">It is understood that Van de Ven had been considering his future in north London at the start of the summer after Tottenham narrowly avoided relegation last season. But the impact of the new manager, Roberto De Zerbi, has persuaded the Netherlands international to commit his future to the club after talks with his representatives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Tottenham have already spent more than \u00a3200m on six new players this summer and are still in the market for a new attacker. Last week, De Zerbi said that they had \u201ccompleted 60% of our project in the transfer market\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tottenham are in talks with Atl\u00e9tico Madrid over the sale of Cristian Romero after categorically rejecting Arsenal\u2019s approach&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":577817,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-577816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/577817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}