Two days ago, we covered claims from Italy that Fiorentina are working on taking Fabio Paratici away from Tottenham Hotspur.
On Sunday, the UK press explained Spurs haven’t been approached for their sporting director. The Italian media now bring more on Paratici.
Calciomercato give an insight into why Fiorentina decided to bet on the Tottenham man.
The Serie A side are currently bottom of the table, five points behind 17th placed Parma. They registered their first league win of this season against Udinese on Sunday.
La Viola want to bring in the Tottenham director as their head of football and give him full control. After internally agreeing on this, the Italian club contacted the 53-year-old.
He ‘immediately expressed openness’ for further talks. Therefore, La Viola officials travelled to England to hold talks with Paratici, and the negotiations took off.
Firenze Viola report the Tottenham director has ‘already given his approval’ to Fiorentina, after receiving necessary guarantees. They add he could bring in former Spurs scout Leonardo Gabbanini to help him.
Over at TuttoMercatoWeb, they claim Paratici is getting closer to joining the Italian club.
He returned to the north London club in October. Therefore, La Viola have to agree terms with the Europa League winners.
TMW state: ‘The deadlines for finalising his agreement with Spurs must be respected, and there is still uncertainty as to when this will happen, but Fiorentina’s choice has been made.’
To sum it up, Fiorentina are working on finding an agreement with Spurs after Paratici said yes to them.