The club's dismal Premier League form continued with a 3-2 loss at Bournemouth on Wednesday (07.01.26) and the Argentine defender stated in a since-deleted Instagram post that "other people" should be coming out to speak and added that they "only show up when things are going well, to tell a few lies".

The Spurs captain has since deleted the post and uploaded a nearly identical statement that omits the part about senior figures at the club telling "lies".

Romero wrote on the social media platform: "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.

"We'll stay here, working, sticking together and giving our all to turn things around. Especially at times like this, keeping quiet, working harder and moving forward all together, is part of football."

Spurs were beaten by an injury-time goal from Bournemouth's departing forward Antoine Semenyo and under-pressure manager Thomas Frank admits that the result was hard to take.

The coach told Match of the Day: "That's football unfortunately. It's extremely painful to be on the Tottenham side after the game. We put everything into the game, the boys worked really hard, the staff worked hard to come down here and try to get a result.

"We went 1-0 up, conceded two second-phase goals - especially the second one, we have to do much better. Then in the second half, the character and mentality, the focus to stay in the game and keep going against a difficult counter-attacking team, was very pleasing to see.

"I thought we were closer to winning than Bournemouth were."