relayed by Napoli Magazine<\/a>. The Italian newspaper reports that Giuntoli is set to return to football after leaving Juventus last summer.<\/p>\nThe 54-year-old is out of work after leaving Juventus last year following two years as their sporting director. He had also previously been Napoli\u2019s sporting director from 2015-2023 and sporting director at Carpi between 2009 and 2015.<\/p>\n
Il Giornale now report that he\u2019s ready to return to work and \u2018reclaim the spotlight\u2019. The fact he has now been spotted in London, at Tottenham, is a \u2018clear sign\u2019 that Spurs are seriously exploring the possibility of hiring him.<\/p>\n
Free agent director of football<\/p>\n
While reports have stated he was simply at the game against Crystal Palace to support Igor Tudor, who he appointed at Juventus, the Italian newspaper says otherwise.<\/p>\n
As far as they\u2019re concerned, he\u2019s a serious candidate to fill Spurs\u2019 vacant sporting director role. If they do move, though, they\u2019ll have to do so before Roma.<\/p>\n
The path to the Italian capital is becoming increasingly concrete. There has been recent internal friction between manager Gian Piero Gasperini and Frederic Massara, their sporting director.<\/p>\n
That could lead to a reshuffle and the \u2018profound respect\u2019 for Giuntoli could provide the impetus to get a deal done. Tottenham then, need to be wary. Perhaps that is why the Italian was already in London this week.<\/p>\n
Paratici harm<\/p>\n
The question is whether Tottenham want another Italian sporting director following the high impact but chaotic reign of Fabio Paratici.<\/p>\n
While he modernised the squad with several big successful signings, there was plenty of high-cost, low-impact signings in their as well. And the current squad, which includes many of those signings, is now fighting against relegation.<\/p>\n
Indeed, some would argue Paratici\u2019s time in charge is part of the reason Tottenham currently find themselves in this situation.<\/p>\n
Those scars could become worse in the coming months, perhaps enough for another Italian like Giuntoli to not be considered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cristiano Giuntoli\u2019s recent appearance at Tottenham Hotspur was a \u2018clear sign\u2019 that Spurs are \u2018seriously exploring\u2019 the possibility…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":510150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-510149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}