It has taken until August for Cristian Romero to find a new team, as Tottenham Hotspur are struggling to find a suitor willing to spend a significant transfer fee on Romero while the player himself is also struggling to find a team willing to take on his wages. Romero is at a point where he may need to facilitate a wage cut to join the team most interested in him, Serie A giants Inter Milan.
Even prior to the last summer transfer window, Romero was bloviating publicly about a dream move to La Liga, and while Atletico Madrid were interested then and still are now, they do not exactly seem to be rushing to sign him. Most of the offers Tottenham are getting are around 40 million euros or even less when Spurs were expecting to exceed 50 million euros after his excellent World Cup campaign for finalists Argentina.
Cristian Romero is not a marquee transfer target
But the former World Cup, Copa America, and Europa League winner made a brutal miscalculation. While he may look at these trophies and see himself as a winner, the top clubs in European football are not exactly emptying their pocket books for him because they do not see him as a winner. He may have had a great World Cup, but the sourness of his poor 2025/26 Premier League season in which he nearly captained Spurs to relegation - and in which Spurs survived without his presence - looms large for these clubs.
Because what a player does for his club still matters more than the brief period of time at international tournaments when a player like Cristian Romero is expected to dominate most of the other countries. Romero is not a priority transfer target at the center back position after accusations that he didn't try his hardest for the club, which are honestly backed up by the eye test on film, including plays when he did not run back in defense or made lazy challenges when Spurs were sliding further into relegation.
Romero did not act like a true captain last season, and the same reason why Tottenham Hotspur do not want him is the same reason why the big boys in Europe like Barcelona and Real Madrid have zero interest while the second tier of big clubs like Inter Milan and Atletico Madrid are merely bargain hunting here. Now, Romero has to readjust his expectations, meanwhile Tottenham feel even less bad about letting their mercurial center back walk.
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