{"id":102354,"date":"2026-01-09T03:02:53","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T07:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/frank-backs-romero-after-social-media-controversy-and-injuries-at-tottenham\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T03:02:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T07:02:53","slug":"frank-backs-romero-after-social-media-controversy-and-injuries-at-tottenham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/frank-backs-romero-after-social-media-controversy-and-injuries-at-tottenham\/","title":{"rendered":"Frank backs Romero after social media controversy and injuries at Tottenham"},"content":{"rendered":"Tottenham Hotspur&#8217;s coach, Thomas Frank, has defended his captain, Cristian Romero, following a social media post that sparked controversy.\n\nThe post, in which Romero apologized to the fans and which was subsequently modified, came after Tottenham&#8217;s 3-2 defeat to Bournemouth.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Sometimes, it should be other people who speak, but they don&#8217;t, as has been happening for several years.<\/p><cite>Cristian Romero<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nIn his original post, Romero had also written: &#8220;They only appear when things are going well, to tell some lies&#8221;.\n\nAhead of Tottenham&#8217;s FA Cup clash against Aston Villa, Frank defended his captain, although he admitted the post was a &#8220;mistake&#8221;.\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a2.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2026%2F0108%2Fr1597998_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"Cristian Romero\" title=\"\"><figcaption>Cristian Romero se disculp\u00f3 con los fan\u00e1ticos de los Spurs en las redes sociales.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\nFrank praised Romero&#8217;s performance as captain, highlighting his leadership on the field.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I think after Romero became captain he has done many good things. I said when I named him captain that, despite being an experienced player, he has tried a lot, he is still a young leader.<\/p><cite>Thomas Frank<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nFrank also mentioned that he had a conversation with Romero and sporting director Johan Lange about the incident, keeping the details of the conversation internal.\n\nRegarding the team&#8217;s injuries, Frank reported on the situation of several players.\n\nThey are still waiting to know the severity of the injuries of Rodrigo Bentancur and Lucas Bergvall, who were injured against Bournemouth.\n\nRegarding Mohammed Kudus, Frank indicated that his tendon and quadriceps injury is more serious, and he is not expected to return until after the March international break.\n\nRegarding Dejan Kulusevski, Frank explained that his injury is complicated and it will be known in a few weeks if the injection he received has worked for his recovery.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tottenham Hotspur&#8217;s coach, Thomas Frank, has defended his captain, Cristian Romero, following a social media post that sparked controversy. The post, in which Romero apologized to the fans and which was subsequently modified, came after Tottenham&#8217;s 3-2 defeat to Bournemouth. Sometimes, it should be other people who speak, but they don&#8217;t, as has been happening [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":102355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[7201,7741,355,949],"class_list":{"0":"post-102354","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-cristian-romero","9":"tag-frank","10":"tag-injuries","11":"tag-tottenham"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}