Simon Jordan has told talkSPORT that Daniel Levy won’t allow Tottenham’s new rumoured director of football, Fabio Paratici, to decide whether Harry Kane is sold or not.
Whilst Tottenham continue to search for a new manager, despite it being 51 days since Jose Mourinho was handed his P45.
It does seem as though a new face is set to arrive in the boardroom, with ex-Juventus man, Paratici, seemingly headed to North London.
Levy has always been known to be a tough negotiator and someone who has held a lot of power at Spurs.
But it does seem as though the tide will be changing slightly with Paratici, with the Italian having to jump straight into the deep end if he does indeed arrive.
One of those tasks awaiting Paratici will be Kane’s future, but ex-Crystal Palace owner, Jordan, who knows Levy very well, doesn’t think he will hand all the power to the soon-to-be director of football.
“Daniel may well be sitting there saying ‘I have got fish to fry (because of what has happened at Tottenham in recent months, i.e. European Super League),” said Jordan. “And probably what I need to do is put somebody in that’s football-facing from dawn until dusk.
“He has the credentials, the juice and the capability of doing the things that I want. Let him deal with that. And I will be hands-off a little bit.
“Daniel won’t be hands-off when it comes to selling players. He will still hold the ideals of what they want to spend and how they want to spend it. But if he has got real resonance in this appointment then he will devolve budgets to a certain level on spend.
“But on control, I suspect, on re-couping money when they are selling players, i.e, it will not be this director of football that flogs Harry Kane. If he’s flogged, it will be Daniel.”
Paratici’s first job upon his potential arrival will be to appoint a new manager because Levy hasn’t been able to muster up the right man since Mourinho’s exit in April.
Whether or not he can use his own links to attract a bigger name than what’s been rumoured about remains to be seen.
But one thing is for sure, given the frustrations with the Tottenham fans because of the season they just produced and the goings-on at the club, this new face needs to lift the gloom around the area.
If he doesn’t do that then it won’t be the start to the summer Spurs fans are hoping for.
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