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Tottenham have been told to take control of the “crisis” engulfing the club by its supporters’ trust.
Spurs’ season was thrown into further chaos on Wednesday when it was revealed managing director of football Fabio Paratici’s ban in Italy had been extended worldwide.
Paratici was handed a two-and-a-half-year ban from the game in January after his former club Juventus, where he worked for 11 years, were found guilty by an Italian court of false accounting.
While Paratici’s suspension initially only prevented him from working in Italy, FIFA’s extension of the Italian Football Association’s ban will restrict him from fulfilling his duties at Tottenham.
This comes just days after the departure of Antonio Conte and the board has been urged to show leadership by trust member Martin Buhagiar, who said: “It is one drama after another, one mess and one crisis after another.
“It is really worrying because the lack of leadership there is becoming a real concern for Spurs fans now.
“For me it shows really poor forward planning and that is the issue at Spurs.
“We have no first-team coach, no women’s coach, our director of football has been suspended and just before his suspension is endorsed worldwide by FIFA, they get him to send out a video talking about Antonio Conte.
“The club should have kept him [Paratici] in the background or put him on gardening leave [in January] to take him away from the firing line.
“I think there is a complete disillusion about the way the club is being run and I think this is the worst it has been.
“Something has to change. Either the club has to change its strategy and the way it communicates with fans or something more severe needs to happen.
“The stadium is great, but there is no point having a brilliant stadium if you haven’t got a footballing team you can be proud of.”
