Fabio Paratici was meant to be Tottenham's transfer messiah, but his signings have backfired and he spent most of January dithering... the Italian chief shackles teams with poor decisions and his methods are NOT suited to the English game

Let's face it, Tottenham don't have the best history when it comes to the director of football hot seat.

There was Frank Arnesen - whose first manager in Jacques Santini left after three months and then ran off to Chelsea. His successor Damien Comolli fell out with coach Martin Jol for signing a number of flops without his approval - including Kevin Prince-Boateng, David Bentley and Gilberto - and he was sacked after three years.

Then the club looked for success with famed former Real Madrid and Roma director Franco Baldini, who oversaw a wasteful splurge on the infamous not-so-magnificent seven players brought in to replace Gareth Bale in 2013.