Tottenham Hotspur know that in a matter of days, Fabio Paratici will leave to become the Director of Football at Fiorentina. That hardly says anything great about Spurs right now, because if Paratici is leaving the Lilywhites for the literal worst team in Serie A and the biggest flops of the 2025/26 season in all of Europe, then he must not be too keen on the vision shared by Thomas Frank and the new management structure.
Still, Fiorentina is a huge club, and Paratici did fine work in Italy, his home country, as the main man in charge at Juventus before coming to Tottenham. Every Spurs fan will wish him well, and even in his brief return to the club, he still helped out by bringing in Randal Kolo Muani on loan from PSG after a nifty stint in Turin.
Even on his way out, though, Paratici is delivering an unexpected gift to Tottenham in the form of an exit, which has received the fabled "Here We Go" from Fabrizio Romano even before the more expected departure of Paratici himself and the potential sale of Brennan Johnson to London rivals Crystal Palace.
The first 'Here We Go' drops
Per Fab, right around the time that Fiorentina are set to announce the signing of Fabio Paratici, they have reached a "verbal agreement" to sign Tottenham Hotspur forward Manor Solomon. The player is currently on loan from Spurs to Villarreal, having sealed that move last summer after spending the 2024/25 campaign on loan with Leeds United in the Championship.
Solomon has predictably done nothing for Villarreal this season and shown that his level is far below their club. But given Fiorentina are the worst team in Serie A right now, Solomon, who does have a knack for finding the back of the net from the left wing position, he can only help the Viola's situation.
Paratici must like the familiarity Solomon brings and knows that he needs supplemental goals from the wing, above all else. Romano says that this is going to be a reset loan deal, so Solomon's loan will simply be switched from Villarreal to Fiorentina for the rest of the season.