Managing Director Football: Fabio Paratici

[dtxspurs]

I’ll sound like a broken record if I list off all of Paratici’s mistakes so far but the headlines are:
1. He chased a sexual, homophobic tosser and only ditched the deal when fans kicked off.
2. He convinced Levy to appoint Nuno despite Levy having serious reservations.
3. He signed 5 players in the summer and only improved one player in our first XI who may yet decide that Tottenham isn’t for him because he is here on a loan.
4. He allowed Bale and Vinicius to leave and didn’t replace them
5. He failed to sign a back up striker for Kane despite the clear need for one.

I don’t see how some fans are able to defend him if I’m honest.

Emerson is better than Aurier in a back 4, IMO.

We ended up with Conte so who gives a fuck about Nuno or this Summer.

As I said I get the attacker stuff but who's to say Levy & Lewis gave him any money to work with. We're putting all the blame on one guy in a role that we've historically not given a ton of power/freedom/backing.

 

[rossdapep]

I’ll sound like a broken record if I list off all of Paratici’s mistakes so far but the headlines are:
1. He chased a sexual, homophobic tosser and only ditched the deal when fans kicked off.
2. He convinced Levy to appoint Nuno despite Levy having serious reservations.
3. He signed 5 players in the summer and only improved one player in our first XI who may yet decide that Tottenham isn’t for him because he is here on a loan.
4. He allowed Bale and Vinicius to leave and didn’t replace them
5. He failed to sign a back up striker for Kane despite the clear need for one.

I don’t see how some fans are able to defend him if I’m honest.

1 & 2 His first choice was always Conte. He only fell back to those options when it became clear he has very very limited choices. He also arrived in June with little time

3. Again, he came into the club late. They needed the summer to assess the squad and they were never going to back Nuno. Let's see how he does fully backing his main choice.

4. He didn't let them leave. Benfica wanted us to pay for him so we walked away. Bale didn't want to come back.

5. Yes, this is one criticism but even then it's clear the club were anticipating the Kane money and we had our eyes on Vlahovic and Martinez. He can't go out and sign a quality striker if the club aren't giving him the money.

 

[SargeantMeatCurtains]

Emerson is better than Aurier in a back 4, IMO.

We ended up with Conte so who gives a fuck about Nuno or this Summer.

As I said I get the attacker stuff but who's to say Levy & Lewis gave him any money to work with. We're putting all the blame on one guy in a role that we've historically not given a ton of power/freedom/backing.

Honestly I’ve seen nothing yet from Emerson which suggests he’s better than Aurier in any formation. FWIW Aurier would be awesome in this Conte system.

I care about the summer. I don’t respect how Paratici does his business. He sold Fonseca up the river for that fat turd Gattuso.

If Lewis/Levy didn’t supply Paratici with a considerable amount of funds, why did he feel the need to give Sevilla £20m + Lamela for a kid who is nowhere near ready for our first XI?

 

[dtxspurs]

Honestly I’ve seen nothing yet from Emerson which suggests he’s better than Aurier in any formation. FWIW Aurier would be awesome in this Conte system.

I care about the summer. I don’t respect how Paratici does his business. He sold Fonseca up the river for that fat turd Gattuso.

If Lewis/Levy didn’t supply Paratici with a considerable amount of funds, why did he feel the need to give Sevilla £20m + Lamela for a kid who is nowhere near ready for our first XI?

Aurier would not be good in this formation because he wouldn't track back at all on defense. He didn't have the stamina/determination to play this role.

I could give a rats ass about Fonseca/Gattuso dilemma because we have who he actually wanted which was Conte.

I'd love to see which player went for 20mil this summer that could have walked into our first 11.

 

[Ginola+Tonic]

What a fraud this guy is.

Not one successful signing (Romero still could be and probably will be if signed permanently)

appointed Nuno

Swapped Bale, Lanela and Vinicius for just a very raw Bryan Gil

Wanted Gattuso

The jury is very much out

 

[Ghost Hardware]

I certainly have questions markers over him, but I had question marks over his time at Juve. Romero I feel was an excellent signing, I know we haven’t seen what he can do here, but at Atlanta he was exceptional and I was really excited that we signed him. Gil, who knows, he has potential but he’s going to need to play. Could go ether way but I feel he’s a talent if nurtured well. After that it sort of goes sideways. I never rated Royal and didn’t want us to get him regardless what formation we were planning to play and Giolini was a disaster.

Going forward I can’t say I’m not concerned about the players we are being linked with. I don’t particularly rate Kessie, Lingard or Traore. None of them raise our level, serviceable sure, but improving us, im not so sure. Certainly to the level we require. Vlahovic is the one player we have been linked to so far that I see raising our level.

 

[evoid]

Paratici is a fall guy for levy, that’s it, we couldn’t hire a sporting director that’s further away from what we want to achieve than this guy, but here we are. Be interesting to see where the blame goes in the summer ?

 

[SargeantMeatCurtains]

Aurier would not be good in this formation because he wouldn't track back at all on defense. He didn't have the stamina/determination to play this role.

I could give a rats ass about Fonseca/Gattuso dilemma because we have who he actually wanted which was Conte.

I'd love to see which player went for 20mil this summer that could have walked into our first 11.

Aurier would not be good in this formation because he wouldn't track back at all on defense. He didn't have the stamina/determination to play this role.
With all due respect, this is utter nonsense. He did both jobs in a back 4. People will remember the mistakes he’d occasionally make but he was mostly good. He would thrive in a back 3 under Conte.

I could give a rats ass about Fonseca/Gattuso dilemma because we have who he actually wanted which was Conte.
If you have no issue with Paratici chasing a guy with a history of homophobia and sexism, then that’s on you.

I'd love to see which player went for 20mil this summer that could have walked into our first 11.

Michael Olise - £8m.
Patson Daka - £23m
Emmanuel Dennis - £3.6m
Nico Gonzalez - £21m
Teun Koopmeiners - £12m
Denzel Dumfries - £12m

 

[barry]

Is he another fraud ?

He's not really appreciated on the Juve forum. They claim he likes to make a deal but he doesn't always buy players of most urgent need to the squad. They actually say that was Morata's strength.
They also say, much like ourselves, he's lumbered them with high salary players who are gonna be hard to get rid of.
I personally think it's an embittered view, that's based on hindsight.
I mean It's easy for them to say now. When he took over Juve were pissing the league every season, were covered pretty much everywhere, and his goal was to make them a champions league winning team.
Sure he failed but he tried, and the players he bought on paper were all very decent.
I don't know if he's the messiah, but I'm prepared to give him a few windows to prove himself.
I personally like Gil, and Romero, think Emerson's ok, and at worst could be got rid of for an ok sum, and Golini is absolute dog shit, but it's only a loan.

 

[dtxspurs]

Aurier would not be good in this formation because he wouldn't track back at all on defense. He didn't have the stamina/determination to play this role.
With all due respect, this is utter nonsense. He did both jobs in a back 4. People will remember the mistakes he’d occasionally make but he was mostly good. He would thrive in a back 3 under Conte.

I could give a rats ass about Fonseca/Gattuso dilemma because we have who he actually wanted which was Conte.
If you have no issue with Paratici chasing a guy with a history of homophobia and sexism, then that’s on you.

I'd love to see which player went for 20mil this summer that could have walked into our first 11.

Michael Olise - £8m.
Patson Daka - £23m
Emmanuel Dennis - £3.6m
Nico Gonzalez - £21m
Teun Koopmeiners - £12m
Denzel Dumfries - £12m

Michael Olise - doesn't start for Palace
Patson Daka - doesn't start for Leicester
Emmanuel Dennis - I'll give you that one (people would have thrown a fit if we signed an attacker for 3.6mil)
Nico Gonzalez - Started 11/16 games for Fiorentina with 2 goals and 4 assists. Not convinced at all he'd start over Lucas.
Teun Koopmeiners - started 10/18 games for Atalanta, hardly convincing he'd come here and won a starting job.
Denzel Dumfries - correct, he would start for us.

On Gattuso, whatever it didn't end up happening. I'm sure there's not a single player/manager/worker in the team that's never said anything remotely sexist or homophobic either... (not condoning any of it what-so-ever)

 

[Aphex]

I don’t like the sound of the Gattuso Mendes Paratici stuff.

Especially that we are also heavily dealing with Mendes too at Spurs.

 

[CoopsieDeadpool]

I don’t like the sound of the Gattuso Mendes Paratici stuff.

Especially that we are also heavily dealing with Mendes too at Spurs.

Don't listen to it then ?‍

 

[SUIYHA]

Clear success: None

Jury still out - promising so far: Conte, Romero

Jury still out: Gil, Sarr

Jury still out - underwhelming so far: Gollini

Clear flop: Royal, Nuno


I'm judging this not on their "ability" but on their success of them being signed for Tottenham Hotspur when they were. I'm not really sure why I'm sparing Gollini the bottom category other than a few good saves last night and remembering how many howlers Lloris dropped in the two years before lockdown but he could well go in there.

 

[DiVaio]

Michael Olise - doesn't start for Palace
Patson Daka - doesn't start for Leicester
Emmanuel Dennis - I'll give you that one (people would have thrown a fit if we signed an attacker for 3.6mil)
Nico Gonzalez - Started 11/16 games for Fiorentina with 2 goals and 4 assists. Not convinced at all he'd start over Lucas.
Teun Koopmeiners - started 10/18 games for Atalanta, hardly convincing he'd come here and won a starting job.
Denzel Dumfries - correct, he would start for us.

On Gattuso, whatever it didn't end up happening. I'm sure there's not a single player/manager/worker in the team that's never said anything remotely sexist or homophobic either... (not condoning any of it what-so-ever)

Worth to add that Dumfries started performing really well only after game against Roma at the start of december, until then he was really bad and benched by Matteo Darmian... Similar to Emerson, is definitely more physical than technical and saw a lot of Inter fans moaning about his crossing. And definitely worse as a defender.

And the fact Dennis is on the list shows sometimes how random transfer is.

 

[Cochise]

I'm not calling Emerson a flop. He's a solid defender and will likely improve in his offensive play, he's just not suited to being a RWB.

 

[spids]

This summer will be decisive. There are a lot of free transfers for top quality, experienced, international players. It will also be the first window Paratic has been shopping for Conte's 3-4-3/3-5-2.

Some free transfers we might be interested in:

Kessie
Romagnoli
Brozovic
Eriksen
Dybala
Rudiger
Dembele
Zakaria
Pogba
Lingard
Ginter
Perisic

Add to that the ground work Paratici has undoubtedly been putting in on Vlahovic. And that Sarr is coming to us from Metz. We coudl have a totally different first team come August.

 

[spids]

I'm not calling Emerson a flop. He's a solid defender and will likely improve in his offensive play, he's just not suited to being a RWB.

I'd like to see him trie as a RCB when Romoero is injured. Cannot be worse than Tanganga.

 

[dtxspurs]

This summer will be decisive. There are a lot of free transfers for top quality, experienced, international players. It will also be the first window Paratic has been shopping for Conte's 3-4-3/3-5-2.

Some free transfers we might be interested in:

Kessie
Romagnoli
Brozovic
Eriksen
Dybala
Rudiger
Dembele
Zakaria
Pogba
Lingard
Ginter
Perisic

Add to that the ground work Paratici has undoubtedly been putting in on Vlahovic. And that Sarr is coming to us from Metz. We coudl have a totally different first team come August.

Kessie, Rudiger, Dybala makes our team a lot better. Replacing PEH, Lucas & Davies would be big time.

 

[The Scarecrow]

Paratici is a fall guy for levy, that’s it, we couldn’t hire a sporting director that’s further away from what we want to achieve than this guy, but here we are. Be interesting to see where the blame goes in the summer ?

Not easy to be Levy here, is it. If Paratici does well, he gets all the credit. If Paratici does badly, he's just a fall guy for Levy.

If we follow the narrative that Levy is a penny pincher who only has thoughts for the bottom line, it makes absolutely no sense for him to bring in a DOF who makes bad decisions as a "fall guy". Nothing is more expensive for the club than signings who flop.

If we follow your narrative here, that Levy doesn't give a shit about the club's success and only hired Paratici to take the blame off himself, he clearly doesn't care about money at all. Not only will that lower the market value of the company that he has a significant amount of shares in, he will also have to supply Paratici with funds that he can spend on awful players, which hurts the bottom line (which will also lower the market value over time).

Pick one.

 

[dontcallme]

He definitely has a lot to prove.

It's way too early to call his signings a success or a failure. I definitely see potential in Romero and Gil but time will tell.

I feel we have the right manager now and hope he stays for a good few years.

January is a difficult month to buy in but not impossible. Identifying targets of the right quality from clubs who are open to selling midseason is the challenge. We don't appear to have done this. Traore at the moment is looking like the only obtainable player but time will tell on Wolves' asking price.

This summer is simply huge for us.