Fiorentina market, Fabio Paratici against the crisis: contract already ready

Fiorentina soccer market: Fabio Paratici to try to lift the Viola from a standings situation that is gradually turning from dramatic to tragic. Precisely, the former Juventus and Tottenham executive is expected to move to the banks of the Arno to take on the role of director of the technical area. First goal: a salvation this season, which sees the team currently under Paolo Vanoli wistfully last in Serie A. Then proceed to rebuilding. And in fact, the contract in question would run for as many as four and a half seasons. Proof that the plans would be not only in the’immediate, but also in the short and long term.

Marco Enzo Venturini

Paratici, before the start of the season, already seemed close to a return to Serie A. To Milan, for example, which, however, has since preferred him to Igli Tare. Then he had been hired as sporting director at a club for which he had already worked: Tottenham. “I am happy to return to a club that I love – he had said -In the last few months I have been working, as a consultant, with Johan, Vinai Venkatesham and Thomas Frank, I am looking forward to returning to London to join the team full time”. Yet, in the meantime, his yes would have already come to the proposal Fiorentina has made to him.

Born in 1972, a former midfielder for Piacenza, Fiorenzuola, Pavia, Novara, Palermo, Giugliano and Brindisi, among others, Fabio Paratici embarked on his career as sporting director, at the end of his playing career, at Sampdoria, under the guidance of the then Blucerchiato general manager Beppe Marotta, whom he would also follow to Juventus. Paratici remained at the Bianconeri until 2021, to move to England. As a result of a sanction imposed by the Italian Football Federation and also extended abroad, the executive left Spurs in 2023, to return as said in the summer of 2025.

A lot of catches he would find at Fiorentina, and not only for the team&#8217s performance and the eventual fate of coach Paolo Vanoli. In fact, there are several players who could change air as early as January, starting with bigwigs Moise Kean, in the crosshairs of Barcelona among others, and Albert Gudmundsson, requested by Gian Piero Gasperini at Roma.

In the meantime, an Edin Dzeko case has also opened. The Bosnian, captain in the Conference League against Lausanne, has also become one of the team’s staples and spokesman even in the face of fan protests. Yet he could in turn leave Fiorentina: former teammate Daniele De Rossi wants him at Genoa, but there are also the hypotheses Cagliari and Pisa.