Managing Director Football: Fabio Paratici

[Russ1201]

you can smell it from a mile away; we’re going to panic buy and overpay for some bang average winger who will maybe score 3 goals over the next season and a half and we’ll be trying to shift him on ridiculous wages for the next 5 windows

Your optimistic looking a signing ?

 

[13VanDerBale13]

Wouldn’t surprise me if he’s given the boot after the Summer

 

[wizgell]

"So Fab, you've been here around half a season yet you haven't turned us into Champions League regulars yet. Your position has now become untenable and therefore you must go. Arrivederci Signore" ?

We are approaching match thread levels of people spouting shite in here today. The 'make 3 subs after 15 minutes' brigade out in full force.

I used the word untenable so I'll assume I'm part of the spouting shite brigade.

I'm interested to know what indications you have seen that this bloke is any good at his job in his current context.

 

[fishhhandaricecake]

Wouldn’t surprise me if he’s given the boot after the Summer

Why all the knee jerking about Paratici today?

I do have my reservations about him but surely we should wait until end of next summer to properly judge him?

Having targets stolen by Barca and Liverpool is nothing shocking or new really, we are only just starting to fish in their ponds.

Paratici when interviewed said he was brought in to build something long term and he stays at clubs for 5+ years, so far I don’t think he’s been an unmitigated disaster.

Pros:
-Romero signing
-Persuading Conte mid season and acting before Man.U
-Sarr supposed to be a big talent has been signed to join in summer

Cons:
-Gil looks poor so far albeit raw
-Gollini looks poor albeit only on Loan as a back/up gk so not end of the world
-Emerson looks ok and is only 22 I think but was signed as a RB not a RWB

Neutral:
-Has seemingly from the outside been outmanoeuvred by Barca and Lpool on two main targets but still 3 days left of the window where most activity is done so let’s see how we end up.

 

[fishhhandaricecake]

Wouldn’t surprise me if he’s given the boot after the Summer

He has a relationship with Conte so unless he falls out with Conte and fucks up the summer window then he is going nowhere.

I completely get peoples concerns about him but I still think we need to wait until the end of this window to see who we end up with and also to the start of next season to see what we do next summer.

No one knew Diaz was on our radar until 2 days ago, we could/should well have a fair few other plates spinning which we can move on to.

 

[Yantino]

I don't know because i don't work at Spurs or have any insight at all, but it seems to me that he has not been empowered to do his job. He's a glorified scout if Levy continues to oversee it every deal.

 

[0-Tibsy-0]

His first thee major tests;

Manager hunt - was an absolute nonsense in the summer. A complete farce.
Summer transfer window - pretty poor, Romero aside.
January transfer window - what appears to be a confused scattergun approach

I'd certainly say that if our starting 11 isnt stronger by the end of Monday then the jury should most definitely be out. A very important few days for FP.

 

[kieranfitchett]

Paratici is cooking and there’s a funny smell coming from the kitchen

 

[Harrier]

 

[Ruffinthepuffin]

Please, no.

 

[Harrier]

Please, no.

Could do worse as a backup on a 6th month loan.

 

[Wick3d]

This made me chuckle, how true it is I dunno. Be interesting to know if this is fairly common, how does one even find out who represents who these days? Seems so confusing

 

[snakehipsspurs]

This made me chuckle, how true it is I dunno. Be interesting to know if this is fairly common, how does one even find out who represents who these days? Seems so confusing

Been seeing O’Keefe tweet stuff like this all day. Really odd but he clearly has a massive problem with Paratici.

Comes across a bit petty and childish rather than informed criticism tbh…

 

[DarwinSpur]

It's not exactly going swimmingly is it?

 

[Wick3d]

Been seeing O’Keefe tweet stuff like this all day. Really odd but he clearly has a massive problem with Paratici.

Comes across a bit petty and childish rather than informed criticism tbh…

Yeah ever since the Adama deal went sour, I have noticed a lot of people going in hard at Paratici.

 

[snakehipsspurs]

Yeah ever since the Adama deal went sour, I have noticed a lot of people going in hard at Paratici.

Yeah it’s easy for these twitter ITKs to pile on when something’s gone wrong, but if Paratici is so bad and they’ve known for so long, why are they only piping up now?

O’Keefe clearly gets some stuff from the agents side and gets the odd bit right, but he mixes in so much opinion too it’s hard to tell what’s true or not.

 

[Harrier]

This made me chuckle, how true it is I dunno. Be interesting to know if this is fairly common, how does one even find out who represents who these days? Seems so confusing

I’ve done something similar when juggling two women on Plenty of Fish! ?

 

[spursfan77]

Wouldn’t surprise me if he’s given the boot after the Summer

All the spurs journos now coming out criticising the club and paratici in particular. Two examples here.

 

[JCRD]

This is quite funny - I was wondering what I was going to do this weekend but now I know - read twitter and this forum - because its gonna be hilarious. Ill get drunk too

 

[fishhhandaricecake]

All the spurs journos now coming out criticising the club and paratici in particular. Two examples here.

Just creating drama and stories.

Lets see how we end up at end of the Window and more importantly when we start next season.