Igor Tudor Should Retain Romero As Tottenham Captain – Redknapp

Former Tottenham Hotspur manager Harry Redknapp has told new Spurs coach Igor Tudor how he can avoid relegation this season. He recently had his say while speaking to the press, and fans have been reacting.

According to him, Tudor must quickly get the squad onside with a pat on the back, and he should not make the mistake of stripping Romero of the captain’s armband.

Redknapp added that making Tottenham players more confident will be the biggest task for the club’s interim manager.

His words, “With belief, anything is possible. And injecting Tottenham’s players with much-needed confidence will be the biggest task for interim boss Igor Tudor when he walks through the doors to meet his squad.

The message for Tudor now is similar to the one that I used when I arrived at White Hart Lane in 2008.

We had fantastic players whose confidence was on the floor having not won any of their first eight league games.

So the first thing I did was to lift the spirits of Luka Modric and Gareth Bale and remind them just how good they were, the quality they had and what they could do to the opposition.

I had to make Modric truly believe there was no one better than him in the Premier League at that time. And everything flowed from belief.

The players cannot be embarrassed to work, run after every ball and, when you lose it, keep chasing and pushing.

There are still a few players Tudor will need to deal with and none more so than the captain Cristian Romero.

You cannot take the armband away from him, as much as that would seem an easy fix. Strip Romero of the captaincy and then you have lost him from day one.

For the short term, you need him on your side and with you – but there needs to be a frank conversation about his lack of discipline.

A fine example for Romero and the rest of the squad to follow is 19-year-old midfielder Archie Gray. He was Tottenham’s player of the year for me last season and delivers whenever or wherever you play him.

Gray is a future Tottenham captain and everyone should be looking to him. He puts on a performance and shows commitment and desire whether at right-back, centre-back or in midfield.

The kids at Tottenham, both Gray and Lucas Bergvall, have been showing up the leaders for far too long and it is time the more senior figures followed their lead.”

WOW.