Tottenham Hotspur will soon officially wave goodbye to executive Fabio Paratici, who will, at the end of the current January transfer window, transition to a new role at a new club. Paratici will become the Director of Football at Fiorentina in February, returning to Serie A and leaving Johan Lange and the rest of the incompetent troup behind him at the N17.
It is a sad way for Paratici to end his time at Tottenham, as he was a popular figure around the club and had only just returned again after suspension to help Spurs secure a decent loan signing in Randal Kolo Muani to close the summer 2025 transfer window.
But Paratici started to develop some pretty wild ideas towards the end of his Tottenham tenure, including a plan to replace Thomas Frank with a manager who would somehow be even worse - Italian mid table specialist Igor Tudor.
Fabio Paratici knew it all along
Then again, Paratici was ultimately right about the most important thing, and that is what he told Tottenham NOT to do during the summer transfer window back when he was in more of an advisory role at the club.
According to a report from The Athletic's Jack Pitt-Brooke, all along Fabio Paratici was telling key decision makers at Tottenham Hotspur that Thomas Frank was not the right man for the job and that Spurs should not hire the Danish manager to replace Ange Postecoglou. He insisted that Spurs hire someone else, though this report does not specify who he had in mind (it likely was not Tudor, who was already hooked up with Juventus at the time).
Paratici may be slowly going off the rails now, but he was quite prescient about Frank in the summer while the rest of us were swept up in the Brentford Moneyball craze. Frank has since gone on to prove Paratici very right and everyone else at Tottenham very wrong.
Tottenham are a demonstrably worse team in the 2025/26 season with Frank as manager, which is wild considering Spurs were a lowly 17th in the Premier League under Big Ange. Firing Postecoglou was not necessarily the wrong option, but hiring Frank has proven to be a calamity, much to the delight of rivals Arsenal and Chelsea who teed off on Spurs in head to head games. Had Spurs heeded Paratici's warning abotu Frank, perhaps the club would be in a very different situation now with a young nucleus that is honestly much better than Frank makes them look.