Don Fabio Latest Update (still with the club)
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Johnny J
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Levy's words fill me with confidence.
Glad Paratici is still working with us. Fantastic record with signings so far. We need quality now to fill out the depth in the squad.
Ghost Hardware
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Excellent news, hope it’s true. Curious to see what his dynamic with Lange will be.
The Scarecrow
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That's a great Christmas present if true.
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Farcical that he's allowed to be involved at all but hey...if the authorities aren't going to crack down on the likes of City and Chelsea we may as well do what we can to even the playing field.
McFlash
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- Oct 19, 2005
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He's just a "consultant", it's all above board, honest guv.
To be fair though, everybody else bend the rules, or downright breaks them so if we can get round the fact that his ban was more because he was a scapegoat for Juve, I'm all for it.
He's improved our recruitment beyond all recognition and it's nice to have someone like him in Levy's circle of trust.
Levy always likes to have the ear of someone who knows the game, like Pleat for example so if Fab is that man currently, that's a good thing.
Westmorlandspur
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Guess who signed Dragusin for Juve at 18yrs old.
Ghost Hardware
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I think it’s pretty likely at this point that he will return full time once his ban has finished. Just a question of what capacit/position he will hold.
Bluto Blutarsky
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That article in full…
Fabio Paratici will continue to assist Tottenham Hotspur in the January transfer window, despite the arrivals of Scott Munn as chief football officer and sporting director Johanne Lange.
Head coach Ange Postecoglou ideally wants a new centre-back, a winger and a midfielder, while Spurs will also look to offload some players this month.
Paratici resigned from his job as managing director of football last April after being banned from working within football for his role in alleged false accounting at his former club Juventus.
But the Italian was able to continue to advise Tottenham on a consultancy basis during last summer’s transfer window, before Munn and Lange had started in their jobs, after elements of Paratici’s ban were lifted.
It is understood that Paratici has been used on an ad-hoc consultancy basis when required by Tottenham and that he will continue to be so during the January transfer window.
His assistance is said to have no impact on Munn’s position at the club and Paratici liaises with Lange over Tottenham’s transfer targets and outgoing business.
Lange arrived at Tottenham as the club’s sporting director last October, while Munn officially started in his role, overseeing Spurs’ football operation, towards the end of September after his start date was delayed.
Rob Mackenzie has also rejoined the club as chief scout since Parartici’s resignation after Leonardo Gabbanini, who was hired by Paratici, was sacked.
Since resigning from his position, Paratici has continued to be a regular visitor at Tottenham matches and often watches from one of the plush corporate boxes inside the stadium. He has also visited away games this season.
Paratici was credited as being the driving force behind Tottenham’s signing of left-back Destiny Udogie, who has been one of the club’s star performers during the first half of the season after spending a campaign on loan in Italy.
Tottenham have also had recent success in the Italian market by signing goalkeeper Guglielmo Vicario from Empoli and are in negotiations with Genoa over a deal to try to sign central defender Radu Dragusin this month.
Midfielder Pape Matar Sarr, who is in line for a new contract and has been a revelation under Postecoglou, is another player whose signing from French club Metz was strongly influenced by Paratici.
Paratici’s former club Juventus are among the clubs who have taken an interest in Tottenham midfielder Pierre-Emile Hojbejrg. Should they sell Hojbjerg, then Spurs could rekindle their interest in Chelsea’s Conor Gallagher.
yido_number1
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With hindsight it's funny people questioned his impact at Juventus when we brought him in.
Clearly knows the game, only concern is with Lange coming in how will they interact without stepping on each others toes. Seems to be a lot of chefs in the kitchen.
fishhhandaricecake
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Don Fabio has excellent scalf game.
Frozen_Waffles
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I'm probably going a bit over the top with this, but he has almost single handedly turned the club around, what an excellent appointment by Levy.
The rebuild has been done by Paratici and it's not too far away from being completed.
Just take a look at our squad when he joined and now. These are the players currently in our squad from when he arrived...
Davies (back up)
Dier (reserve) to be released
Sess (?)
Hoijberg (back up) to be sold
Skipp (reserve)
GLC (back up)
Son
So, discounting Dier, 5 first team squad players and only one starter (when everyone is fit). Quite a few out on loan as well.
Vicario, Foster, Emerson, Porro, Romero, VDV, Udogie, Sarr, Bentancur, Bissouma, Maddison, Gil, Johnson, Peresic, Soloman, Richarlison, Kulusevski, Veliz. 18 players, that's a squad right there.
Out of 18 Gil, Veliz and Soloman are the only ones that have not made an impact so far (and there's still time). If they were all fit, I'd expect almost all of them to be part of the match day squad.
That is nothing short of spectacular in 2 and a half years. Also if you remove the free transfers of Forster and Peresic most of the signings are under 27.
Statue time, everything he touches turns to gold.
The rebuild has been done by Paratici and it's not too far away from being completed.
Just take a look at our squad when he joined and now. These are the players currently in our squad from when he arrived...
Davies (back up)
Dier (reserve) to be released
Sess (?)
Hoijberg (back up) to be sold
Skipp (reserve)
GLC (back up)
Son
So, discounting Dier, 5 first team squad players and only one starter (when everyone is fit). Quite a few out on loan as well.
Vicario, Foster, Emerson, Porro, Romero, VDV, Udogie, Sarr, Bentancur, Bissouma, Maddison, Gil, Johnson, Peresic, Soloman, Richarlison, Kulusevski, Veliz. 18 players, that's a squad right there.
Out of 18 Gil, Veliz and Soloman are the only ones that have not made an impact so far (and there's still time). If they were all fit, I'd expect almost all of them to be part of the match day squad.
That is nothing short of spectacular in 2 and a half years. Also if you remove the free transfers of Forster and Peresic most of the signings are under 27.
Statue time, everything he touches turns to gold.
fishhhandaricecake
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Recruitment wise yes fantastic, but let’s not forget he pulled the plug on Fonseca who’d have been a good fit for us and went instead for Nuno, he then brought Conte who was overall a disaster and a terrible fit, both moves messed us up for a few years.
So yes overall the player recruitment transformation has been fantastic but ‘build him a statue’
come off it.As Roy Keane would say “he’s just doing his job that he’s paid to do’.
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