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International teammates hail £42m Tottenham player as best in the world after international display

Brogan Clasper
Brogan Clasper

Tottenham Hotspur have now returned to Hotspur Way to begin their pre-season efforts ahead of the new campaign.

However, Ange Postecoglou remains wꦍithout some o♓f his top players who have been involved in the two major international tournaments this summer.

Tottenham‘s 2023/24 campaign offered a lot of optimism for things to come under the Australian manager and the feeling is seemingly shared by Daniel Levy.

The Spurs chairman has been fairly busy in the opening weeks of the transfer wꦚindow with a number of unwanted players moved on.

One new face has been brought in the form of Archie Gray this month with Spurs ne𒈔eding to bolster their squad for a season of Europa League f🦂ootball.

But they remain without one player, in parti🍨cular, who has been receiving some b🎉ig praise following a recent international display.

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Tottenham player hailed as best in the world following international display

Spurs did see a decrease in th๊e number of players representing their nations at this summer’s Euros.

Only Radu Dragusin, Micky van de Ven, Guglielmo Vicario and Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg were selected fo��r th𒊎eir respective nations this summer.

The likes of James Maddison have been⭕ able to enjoy their summer break following♋ a difficult season hindered by injury.

However, there are still some players who remain in action despite pre-season beginning back in north London and one of them has been hailed as the best 🐷in the world in his position.

Defender Cristian Romero boo🍎ked his place in the Copa America final with Argentina on Tuesday night after theirᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ victory over Canada.

Tottenham’s vice-captain will be looking to make it back-to-back Copa A🐼merica 🦋titles and shared his delight on Instagram after the match.

And his social media post saw two of his international and Premier League colleagues wax l💃yrical about his performance.

Aston Villa’s Emiliano Martinez hailed the 26-yea🎶r-old as ‘the best centre-ba💙ck in the world’.

Whilst Manchester United’s Lisandro Martinez added ‘whaไt a pleasure to ♌play with you brother’.

Cristian Romero statistics vs Canada

The Spurs centre𒅌-back hܫas established himself as one of the most dominant defenders about when playing for his country.

Lionel Messi has previously hailed th✃e 26-y⛎ear-old as ‘extraordinary’ during the Netflix documentary .

And that ༺is exactly what he was on Tuesday night in their semi-final victory over Jesse Marsch’s Canada.

  • 90 minutes played
  • 3 clearances
  • 2 tackles
  • 1 interception
  • 1 blocked shot
  • 0x dribbled past
  • 0 fouls
  • 91% pass accuracy

Having si๊gned for S📖purs for a fee in the region of , Romero has turned out to be a shrewd piece of business for the Lilywhites.