TOTTENHAM’S management is in turmoil following director of football Fabio Paratici’s two-and-half-year ban from Italian football for his involvement in Turin club Juventus’s transfer scams.

Paratici is a close ally of Spurs manager Antonio Conte and took over as the north London club’s transfer chief in 2021.

The Italian soccer federation is seeking a wider recognition of the ban, which could rule Paratici out of involvement in football in Europe — and worldwide.

Juventus were slapped with a season-trashing 15-point penalty for false accounting on Friday after an appeal hearing at the Italian FA, and former president Andrea Agnelli and former club chief executive Maurizio Arrivabene were each banned from football for two years.

Though Juventus are likely to appeal against the judgement and there is no suggestion that anything similar has occurred at Spurs, Paratici’s lengthy ban marks him out as a prime mover in the fiddle, which involved inflating selling fees over three seasons.