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'It’s not a matter of money' Daniel Levy goes face-to-face and a second meeting is now scheduled

Originally posted on the Boy Hotspur | By The Boy | Last updated Jul 5, 2025 10:45 AM ET

Daniel Levy’s video of his chat with Vinai Venkatesham was quite the tape. The THFC CEO provided fans with fascinating insights into how two Tottenham Hotspur executives were able to riff off each other.

A mutual love of wine (one can presume it’s not the £10 a bottle us plebs are weighing up in the supermarket on a Friday afternoon, not to mention shared ambitions for Spurs.

Timing is everything in football, and after Ange Postecoglou was binned, despite winning the first piece of silverware in the last 17 years, the Spurs’ supremo was defiant.

“We want to win the Premier League. We want to win the Champions League.”

However, it appears that not everyone involved is quite as ‘on message’.

Charla con @fczyz: “El ‘Cuti’ volverá a entrenarse con el Tottenham, pero Romero tiene intención de jugar en la Liga y más concretamente, en el Atlético de Madrid. No pedirá el ‘transfer request’, pero quiere una salida elegante de Londres y jugar en el Atleti”. #ClubUria

“El Tottenham pidió 80M€. Simeone cree que el ‘Cuti’ es un salto de calidad para la defensa. El Atleti ofreció 55 M€+10 M€ en bonus. Además, hay que salvar la fuerte carga de impuestos”. #ClubUria

— Rubén Uría (@rubenuria) July 4, 2025

What Rubén is saying here is that for now, centre back Cristian Romero will return to training with Tottenham, but Romero fully intends to play in La Liga and, more specifically, at Atlético de Madrid.

Romero will have a second meeting with Daniel Levy. In person. Over the phone, Levy tried to make Romero the highest-paid in the squad. ‘Cuti’ said no, that this is not about money and that his new challenge is called Atlético de Madrid, according to this source.

The absolute pillar of our backline is looking not to request a ‘transfer‘, rather he wants a graceful exit from N17 and ultimately to play for Atlético.

For absolute clarity, Cuti wishes for Levy to treat him with respect and agree on a fee with the Spanish side, as opposed to going to war with each other.

Quite how this works out is anyone’s guess. Levy has always routinely sold our best players, and Tottenham owe significant sums of money for transfers.

Romero has made several statements on social media that do not indicate that he has a desire to stay in the Lilywhite.

This second meeting sounds like it may not be fun.

This article first appeared on the Boy Hotspur and was syndicated with permission.

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