{"id":529369,"date":"2026-04-13T23:43:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T23:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/529369\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T23:43:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T23:43:07","slug":"tottenhams-relegation-fears-deepen-with-cristian-romero-out-for-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/529369\/","title":{"rendered":"Tottenham\u2019s relegation fears deepen with Cristian Romero out for season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Romero left the Stadium of Light pitch in tears on Sunday, no doubt aware he may not play for Spurs again and could face a race to make the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Telegraph Sport reported last month that Romero is one of several players <a class=\"ck-custom-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/football\/2026\/03\/09\/cristian-romero-future-doubt-tottenham-plan-summer-sales\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">who could leave Tottenham this summer<\/a> as part of a planned overhaul of the squad \u2013 whether or not the club are relegated to the Championship.<\/p>\n<p>The Argentine\u2019s father claimed Romero has a \u201cvery high\u201d release clause in the contract he signed last summer, although Tottenham\u2019s bargaining power could be dictated by which division the club are in.<\/p>\n<p>Tottenham will be forced into a fire sale of some of their star players, of which captain Romero is the highest earner, if they go down, while they will need to sell players to help fund a squad overhaul if they remain in the Premier League.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Romero left the Stadium of Light pitch in tears on Sunday, no doubt aware he may not play&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":529370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[183385,172288,218,59,221,217,101,5438,8287,56,54,55,157732],"class_list":["post-529369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-argentina-football-team","tag-fifa-world-cup-2026","tag-football","tag-gb","tag-premier-league","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-standard","tag-tottenham-hotspur-fc","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-us-content"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}