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Apparently this just got over the line today.
Juventus won the league 9 times in a row with Paratici as Chief Football Officer - and yet you found nothing to say he did a good job signing players? ......It's got nothing to do with some made-up "defeatist Spurs attitude".
I checked out Paratici's CV hoping to find someone who could massively improve the quality of our player recruitment and find the next Berbatovs, Modrics, Bales, before they are global superstars demanding wages we are never going to pay.
And I found nothing, nada, zero in Paratici's CV suggesting he's a good fit for us. Maybe for Conte's "project" of buying established, expensive players for mega-money. But Levy wanted no part of Conte's approach. And I certainly don't see him sanctioning signing injury-prone players on free transfers for £400k pw. Look how careful he was with Bale's loan contract.
But for the sake of argument, maybe there's a different side to Paratici. Maybe he can identify & sign the next Luka Modric or even Christian Eriksen for a competitive transfer.
And because I believe To Dare Is To Do, I genuinely hope Paratici can deliver this.
But no one has presented any evidence that Paratici has made this type of signing when he was at Juventus.
Only giving your sporting director a 3 year deal? Really sets them up to engage in long term thinking.
I'm tellin' ya, we've hired this guy to be the fixer and deal finder, not the man in charge.
Is that true?Or - he's been given the standard three year contract that every executive gets - and you're just trying to spin a positive into a negative - now who would have expected that?
Is that true?
I mean isn't being an executive like having a real job with an indefinite term?
I don't presume to know what directors of football contracts normally look like, I'm just pointing out that everybody on this board has been jizzing themselves at the notion of building on a longer time horizon than 3 years.
These are two completely different things!Nearly all jobs are based on term contracts, that just common sense, the vast majority of executive jobs have automatic renewal, ergo a 2/3 year contract automatically renews on the same terms every year.
Why? you asked why no 10 year contract - the answer is because most executives have 2/3 year rolling contracts ... how is that different?These are two completely different things!
A 2/3 year contract and a rolling contract are two totally different things.Why? you asked why no 10 year contract - the answer is because most executives have 2/3 year rolling contracts ... how is that different?
A 2/3 year contract and a rolling contract are two totally different things.
Is there a fixed term or isn't there?
You were the one who brought up a 10 year deal. I was just commenting that a 3-year deal seems weird for someone who is in theory practicing long term oversight.
But honestly, fuck off with the whole "you keyboard jockeys are being so UNREASONABLE and INCONSISTENT in your complaints about this laughable chaotic shambles" tone. Who are you kidding?
Depending on how you want to count them, he's anywhere from ENIC's fourth to seventh DoF. And that's assuming this hire happens and is what it has been reported to be, which remains deeply unclear.finally signing a DoF
Depending on how you want to count them, he's anywhere from ENIC's fourth to seventh DoF. And that's assuming this hire happens and is what it has been reported to be, which remains deeply unclear.
I am more positive on Paratici's qualifications than the people braying about Rangnick and Campos because they've read those names on Twitter and like their Wikipedia pages, I'll say that much. But this is Spurs, Daniel Levy is our Director of Absolutely Every Last Thing.
I'd have stopped at Brazilian CB. It's a misnomer.I'd defend Arnesen on that one.
His name was Rodrigo Defendi. Defendi. DEFENDI !!!
How could that possibly go wrong?
Where do you sit?That would make the £1200 season ticket money well spent.
Where do you sit?
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Has he started yet? We need this guy in his office last week. Because Levy and co are a steaming pile of shit he needs to hit the ground running and basically scrape the barrell of the work he was doing for Juventus because most of the targets he has for them would be below the ambition of our board.