Cristian Romero is done for the rest of the season, joining a laundry list of Tottenham Hotspur stars who can no longer aid the club in their efforts to avoid relegation from the Premier League. Mohammed Kudus, Dejan Kulusevski, and Xavi Simons are the others, while James Maddison is still working his way back from a torn ACL.
But there is one more top player at Tottenham who was supposed to write himself in the books as a nailed on, world class player this season who is actually healthy. Romero's center back partner Micky van de Ven is the best player remaining on the team who has not been struck down by injury, yet Spurs supporters won't see him as one of the best on the grounds of how poor his form has been this season.
No single player has been as disappointing during the heat of the relegation battle these last couple of months than Van de Ven. His inconsistency, ill discipline, and genuine regression in play, though he was honestly not as great as some fans hyped him up last season, have been hallmarks of Spurs overall struggles as a squad in 2025/26.
Micky van de Ven has been poor this season
With the season ending on May 24 against Everton, the Tottenham Hotspur defender has exactly one month left to rewrite the narrative of his 2025/26 season - one that will be measured both by his own efforts in these final, crucial games, as well as Spurs overall performance as a team and ability to avoid relegation to the EFL Championship.
Calling Micky van de Ven's current campaign anything other than a humiliation would be all too complimentary of his work this season. He has been more of a mistake machine than anything else, badly exposing his own lack of progression on the mental aspects of the game and an overreliance on speed and athleticism.
It is surprising, then, that Van de Ven continues to be linked with clubs as ballyhooed as Liverpool, Barcelona, and even the mighty Real Madrid in the summer transfer window. Imagine a Real Madrid side already mired in ego and dysfunction being interested in a player who just cost his team relegation - and a club as big as the very Spurs side that gave them Luka Modric and Gareth Bale, no less.
Van de Ven has that riding on his resume. The last thing the young Dutch center back wants is to be forever known as one of the chief architects of Spurs demise in 2025/26. The clock is ticking.
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