Co-sporting director to go after January transfer window
Paratici returned full-time to Spurs in mid-October
Fabio Paratici will leave his post as Tottenham’s joint sporting director after the closure of the January transfer window to take up a similar recruitment job at Fiorentina.
The Italian came back to Spurs on a full-time basis in mid-October to work alongside Johan Lange, who was promoted from his role of technical director. Paratici had been Spurs’s managing director of football between 2021 and 2023 before resigning after a Fifa ban for alleged financial malpractice during his time at Juventus. After an appeal, he was allowed to act for Spurs on a consultancy basis.
Paratici will return to Italy, partly because of a change to his personal circumstances, and try to help Fiorentina out of the Serie A relegation places. The 53-year-old’s departure has been well trailed, with eyebrows raised at the beginning of January when the Spurs winger Manor Solomon cut short his loan at Villarreal to switch to Fiorentina, also on loan.
