Paulo Fonseca will not be the new manager of Tottenham Hotspur after all. According to transfer expert Fabrizio Romano, the Portuguese’s move to London is ‘one hundred percent off’ for fiscal reasons, despite it seemed in recent days that only the last folds needed to be ironed out. Romano writes that the contracts had already been drawn up and that they only had to be signed.
Fonseca enjoyed tax benefits in Italy, where he had coached AS Roma for the past two years, but these do not apply in Britain. The talks were subsequently discontinued. Fabio Paratici, the new football affairs director at Tottenham, had actually set his sights on Antonio Conte. The Spurs However, they did not come to an agreement with the coach who left Internazionale, after which the transfer was made and contact was sought with Fonseca.
According to Romano, Tottenham Hotspur are now in talks with Gennato Gattuso, who left Fiorentina on Thursday after just 22 days. The reason for the lightning-quick departure from Florence is the difference in transfer understanding between Gattuso and his agent Jorge Mendes on the one hand and the club management on the other. Gattuso spent the past two years at Napoli, with whom he finished fifth in Serie A in the past year. President Aurelio De Laurentiis – with whom Gattuso was reportedly already at odds – decided not to renew his expiring contract.
Two days after it was announced that Gattuso would not remain at Napoli, he was presented at Fiorentina as Giuseppe Iachini’s successor. He was employed as interim coach for exactly two months after the departure of Cesare Prandelli. Gattuso signed a contract until mid-2023 and would officially start working for Fiorentina on July 1, but before he is well inside the club, his departure is already a fact. “Fiorentina and Gattuso have decided in mutual consultation not to start the new season together,” the club wrote in a statement.
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