{"id":368610,"date":"2025-12-24T09:55:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T09:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/368610\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T09:55:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T09:55:06","slug":"tottenham-thomas-frank-discusses-fabio-paratici-exit-as-fiorentina-push-to-sign-sporting-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/368610\/","title":{"rendered":"Tottenham: Thomas Frank discusses Fabio Paratici exit as Fiorentina push to sign sporting director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/thomas-frank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Thomas Frank;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Thomas Frank<\/a> would not be drawn on rumours linking sporting director <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/fabio-paratici\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Fabio Paratici;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Fabio Paratici<\/a> with Fiorentina.<\/p>\n<p>Standard Sport understands that Paratici has been approached by Fiorentina to become their sporting director on a five-year deal, just two months after he rejoined Spurs as a co-sporting director alongside Johan Lange.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>There has, as yet, been no formal approach from Fiorentina to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/tottenham\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Tottenham;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Tottenham<\/a>, but Paratici is thought to be keen on joining the Serie A side.<\/p>\n<p>Paratici\u2019s potential departure would be a huge blow for Spurs, with the January <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/transfer-window\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:transfer window;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">transfer window<\/a> opening next week.<\/p>\n<p>Spurs are expected to be busy next month, and Paratici is due to play a major role in setting out the club\u2019s strategy in the market.<\/p>\n<p>On Paratici, Frank was guarded about addressing rumours of his departure, and said Tottenham were preparing for January as normal, with Lange and Paratici involved in the process.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think, first and foremost, it&#8217;s not the first rumour I need to speak about. If it&#8217;s a staff director or player, in general, I&#8217;m not speaking about that. I just try to focus on the Crystal Palace game and probably also something for someone higher up in the club,\u201d Frank said in his pre-match press conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s one of these where there\u2019s a lot of rumours out there which I\u2019m not really commenting on, players, staff, directors, it\u2019s not for me to have a decision on.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight now, Fabio and Johan are here, that\u2019s what I relate to, and that\u2019s what I\u2019m focusing on.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thomas Frank would not be drawn on rumours linking sporting director Fabio Paratici with Fiorentina. Standard Sport understands&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368611,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,10195,160028,199761,596,199763,199766,199762,85,24942,199765,199764,29761],"class_list":["post-368610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-crystal-palace","tag-fabio-paratici","tag-fiorentina","tag-football","tag-johan-lange","tag-paratici","tag-sporting-director","tag-sports","tag-spurs","tag-staff-director","tag-standard-sport","tag-thomas-frank"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}