These fans are sincerely pleased to see a director of football back in place at Tottenham and feel that the Italian’s influence has all powerful, not just in respect of the players that the club has acquired, but in completing the puzzle at board level and playing a part in securing the services of the right manager to match the ambitions of the supporters.
I take a view that this optimism and window dressing to one side, we are still staring at a squad that that remains wafer thin on a number of fronts, and not because Fabio Paratici is either brilliant or terrible at his job; this is all still under Daniel Levy’s direction. The crying gaps where a replacement for Christian Eriksen ought to be still remains, and asking Harry Kane to carry on as the Spurs’ only designated striker is pretty shameful.
The Don was allowed to cook, but one has to ask if he was provided with a decent kitchen, or was holding his pan over a camping stove?