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Leeds should also expect handsome returns on goalkeeper Illan Meslier, signed for £5million from French club Lorient, and Wilfried Gnonto, purchased for an even smaller fee from Zurich.

Raphinha was instrumental in keeping Leeds United in the top flight before he was sold to Barcelona (Photo: Alex Davidson/Getty Images) His eye for young talent drew praise, most notably identifying Ben White as a young centre-half of huge potential, and he also recruited the Brazilian winger Raphinha from Rennes for £17million ($21.2m) - the player was sold for more than triple that sum to Barcelona two years later. He was credited as the man who persuaded Marcelo Bielsa to join Leeds United in the summer of 2018 and as Leeds pursued transfer targets in the Premier League, Orta’s every flight and meeting became the source of breathless tracking on social media. Take, for example, Victor Orta at Leeds United, who became one of the most talked-about sporting directors in English football. Yet the evidence of the past couple of years complicates this theory. Clubs with prominent sporting directors have often been venerated, credited with having a plan, a structure and a long-term mission that brings stability. Variations of directors of football, football directors, technical directors, sporting directors, heads of recruitment and sporting advisors have appeared across the sport, some of whom have developed highly inflated public profiles, often with ever-broadening mythologies surrounding their talents and achievements. Recent times have seen a dramatic rise of football’s technocrats.

Amid all that, Tottenham parted company with Paratici, who had been hired to bring Juventus standards to Tottenham, but instead of silverware, he transplanted from Turin the stain of investigations into financial malpractice. A chain of events then transpired in which Tottenham hired and fired Antonio Conte, before, on Paratici’s recommendation, instilling Conte’s understudy Cristian Stellini as an interim manager, before Stellini turned out to be so inadequate he required an interim replacement of his own in Ryan Mason. Spurs lost 3-0 at Palace that day, the first of a run of five defeats in seven Premier League games which resulted in Nuno’s sacking. On social media, some supporters even started referring to him as “Don Fabio”. The majority of this sentence may now read as an illusion but Tottenham had won their first three games of the season under a manager named Nuno Espirito Santo, without conceding a goal, and supporters were excited by signings such as Cristian Romero, Bryan Gil, Emerson Royal, Pape Matar Sarr and Pierluigi Gollini.

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