Tottenham Hotspur should be in a state of crisis right now, and anyone pretending as if everything happening at the club is acceptable right now is really just an enemy of the organization, rather than someone simply trying to keep the peace.
With the money and status Spurs have, as well as their diehard fan base, they should be one of the biggest and most successful teams in all of European football. Instead, Tottenham, already in the new year, are sitting in the bottom half of the Premier League table and look nowhere near coming back up - let alone competing for the top four, which is where they should be every year.
And it feels like cowardice has permeated every level of the football club. Johan Lange goes after random kids instead of trying to compete with the biggest clubs in Europe for true difference makers on the transfer market. Thomas Frank sets up his team like he is still at Brentford and can't even outplay the Bees head to head. And then the players are too busy yeling at their own fans instead of trying to win some dang footballgames.
Cristian Romero is the voice of bravery
Yet amidst the sea of cowardice and a culture lacking basic accountability, Tottenham Hotspur supporters have come to realize that they can rely upon new club captain and superstar center back Cristian Romero to call out the club's hierarchy for their myriad of issues.
Romero took the club's brass to task publicly in a statement posted on Instagram, dropping this golden nugget on their heads:
"Apologies to all fans of you who follow us everywhere, who are always there and will continue to be. We are responsible, there's no doubt about that. But we will keep facing up to it and trying to turn the situation around, for ourselves and for the club. At times like this, it should be other people coming out to speak, but they don't - as has been happening for several years now. They only show up when things are going well, to tell a few lies."
Every Tottenham fan has been calling out Johan Lange and the others for their woeful mismanagement of the club, and with Daniel Levy gone, they are not seeing any progress, perhaps even regression since many Spurs supporters feel that Levy would have at least fired Thomas Frank by now.
Romero is not calling out anyone directly, but after another horrible loss and knowing that Romero always favored Ange Postecoglou, this feels like a shot at Frank, too, because it is a shot at the board for not running the club right. And it was the board who fired Ange after winning the Europa League, brought in Frank, and then have sat idly by watching Frank lose game after game with tactics that are so antithetical to what Spurs are about.