{"id":812273,"date":"2026-08-13T13:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T13:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/812273\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T13:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T13:00:09","slug":"tottenham-transfer-news-live-savinho-boost-folarin-balogun-move-61m-deals-agreed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/812273\/","title":{"rendered":"Tottenham transfer news LIVE: Savinho boost, Folarin Balogun move, \u00a361m deals agreed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paul Scholes believes Manchester United<\/a> should attempt to hijack a move for Cristian Romero.<\/p>\n

The Spurs centre-half is believed to be closing in on a move to Atletico Madrid, but Scholes reckons United should make a play for the Argentinian.<\/p>\n

Scholes said on The Good, The Bad and The Football podcast: “You might laugh at this. I’ll get a lot of stick for this. A centre-half I’d go and get now… Cristian Romero from Tottenham<\/a>. I know he’s a nutter. I know he’s got disciplinary issues.<\/p>\n

“But I just think he can be a very good centre-half and I think someone like Michael [Carrick] could really calm him down. And you’re talking 30 or 40 million quid. This is a fella who’s played centre half and won the World Cup. Now, like I said, I know he’s got issues, disciplinary issues.<\/p>\n

“I’d go and get Romero. I actually think he’ll go to Atletico Madrid, but, you know you talk about ‘mavericks’? And I know he’s a centre half, but do you know what I mean? He’s got that bit of an idiot about him. It’s not a very nice thing to say, you know, a bit like [Eric] Cantona did.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Cristian<\/p>\n

Cristian Romero has been linked with several clubs(Image: Harry Langer\/DeFodi Images\/DeFodi via Getty Images)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paul Scholes believes Manchester United should attempt to hijack a move for Cristian Romero. The Spurs centre-half is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":812274,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99,17654,101132],"class_list":["post-812273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-spurs","tag-tottenham-transfer-rumours"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=812273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/812274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}