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Spurs keen to try “new places” as he cast doubt over future in north London

Eyes on Spain: Cristian Romero revealed his desire to play in La Liga

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Tottenham defender Cristian Romero says he is open to leaving the club at the end of the season and would "love to play in La Liga".

Romero, who is Spurs' vice-captain, will have two years left on his contract at the end of the campaign and is a reported target for Spanish giants Atletico Madrid.

Asked by Argentine journalist Gastón Edul on his TV show 'Los Edu' about his future, Romero said: "I’d love to play La Liga. I’d love to, honestly.

"It depends on a lot of things. We’ll see after the [English] championship is over. The truth is, I haven’t spoken to my agent yet, but I’m open to anything. My goal is always to grow and go to new places to continue developing."

Romero also said he would one day return to his first club, Club Atlético Belgrano, where he began his career before moving to Europe with Genoa in 2016.

Quizzed on whether he had thought about returning to Argentina or was now settled away from his home country, he replied: "Yeah, both to be honest. In life I don’t know, because it’s going to be a family decision, and in football I would love to play again for Belgrano, I would love to play again in Argentina.

"Yeah, I will go back to Belgrano and live there because all my family are there in Cordoba."

Spurs slumped to a 18th league defeat of the season at home to Nottingham Forest on Monday to leave Ange Postecoglou's side 16th in the league table.

But they are preparing for next month's Europa League semi-final against Norwegian side Bodo/Glimt and could still finish the season with a first trophy since 2008 and a place in the Champions League, if they win the competition.

Cristian Romero is eyeing Europa League success with Tottenham

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"Above all else, I try to take one day at a time," added Romero. "There are two months left until the end of the season and I'm always thinking about performing at my best. We're in the Europa League semi-finals. It's an important step for the club which hasn't reached this stage for so many years. I'd like to win it."

Romero and his centre-half partner Micky van de Ven were both withdrawn at the interval against Forest with Spurs trailing 2-0 to early goals from Elliot Anderson and Chris Wood, with Postecoglou saying the changes were "pre-planned".

Spurs rallied from 2-0 down and Richarlison halved the deficit with three minutes of the 90 remaining.

The head coach said: "I thought [Romero and van de Ven] needed to play some minutes tonight because it becomes 10 days leading into Liverpool [next Sunday].

"With both of them we've got them in a really good place physically now and I just want to keep them ticking over.

"I felt that there was no need to play more than 45 minutes today and we needed to get a couple of others game time. I just felt that if it was Sunday we probably wouldn't have played them, but on a Monday, especially for Micky because he's been playing just one game a week, we need to build him up because he's in a really good place at the moment so I thought 45 minutes for both of them would be beneficial."