Cristian Romero

The Tottenham Hotspur defender made a big impact at the World Cup in Qatar and now faces a time to develop under Antonio Conte.

"About Romero I can tell you that for him, if I ask the possibility to play with one leg, he wants to play with one leg,” Conte confirmed last month. If you want to have ambition, I think you have to think only to get three points and the draw is half a loss for me. Also your character has to be strong and you have to understand very well the difference between a win, a draw and a loss. If you want to be competitive, to have ambition to fight for something important you have to improve in many aspects. "Cristian Romero is a good player, and he has to be focused in every moment of the game," said Conte. "If he is focused in every moment of the game, with the ball, without the ball, he is really good player with a lot of space for improvement. "I think that in every situation, it's important to have a hot heart and a cold mind. He wants his players to be his embodiment on the pitch though, becoming tougher, aggressive and that little bit nastier and willing to do anything within the rules to get the result. VAR referee Mike Dean did not deem it to be a violent act within the rules but afterwards admitted that he should have told Taylor to look at the incident himself on his pitchside monitor in order to make his own mind up. If he’s good, he’s good to be focused from the start, from the first second to the last second of the game. He has to have the desire, the will, to continue to improve, and to ask himself much more. He likes to leave on his mark on his opponent and you can imagine him once being that youngster in the playground who would enjoy kicking ankles and shins as he played football.