Tottenham sporting director Fabio Paratici is under pressure to deliver after an underwhelming start at the club and the sudden departure of chief scout Steve Hitchen, who resigned this week after feeling sidelined since the Italian’s arrival last summer.
Paratici has made five permanent signings in two full transfer windows at Spurs, three of which came from his former club Juventus, as well as on-loan midfielder Dejan Kulusevski, who signed until the end of the season on deadline day.
Of the five permanent arrivals, Pape Sarr and Bryan Gil have been sent out on loan without making a Premier League start, leaving Brazilian defender Emerson Royal as the only player who was not recruited from Juventus to have made any impact at Tottenham since Paratici joined.