With so much time in the transfer window left, there’s no need to panic if your club haven’t bought anyone yet.
After all, the likes of Tottenham have only recently brought in their new manager, so plans need to be drawn and targets need to be acquired.
Still, the use of a director of football does help when it comes to creating a general picture of what the future might look like, and Fabio Paratici, who arrived before Nuno Espirito Santo, appears to have his own mind map.
Already doing the very same job at Juventus, the Italian will have had a list of players he has wanted to work with, among which can be found Joaquin Correa, currently at Lazio.
The Argentine is one of the few players the Serie A side are expected to part ways with this summer following the arrival of Maurizio Sarri, and two clubs have been labelled as interested.
Tottenham are one of them, with the other being Paris Saint-Germain, who are reportedly ready to offer Pablo Sarabia as a counterpart.
The general consensus is that Claudio Lotito, Lazio’s owner, would prefer cash only for his man, which is where Spurs could come in.
Corriere dello Sport explain that the Italian businessman is ‘hoping that Paratici’s Tottenham come forward’, as ‘the English could offer €30m’ in cash money.
That hasn’t happened yet, with Spurs currently focusing on Takehiro Tomiyasu, but once the Japan international’s transfer gets done, perhaps their director of football will switch his attention to the Argentine forward?
