Tottenham Hotspur could be facing a serious blow with managing director Fabio Paratici facing a 16-month ban from football.
That is the punishment investigators in Italy are seeking for the Spurs chief as part of a capital gains fraud trial. It comes as Tottenham manager Antonio Conte has been tipped to replace Harry Kane with Chelsea forward Romelu Lukaku should the England captain leave the club at the end of the season.
And Conte has implemented the same ban on Swedish winger Dejan Kulusevski as he did on Belgian striker Lukaku while they worked together at Serie A side Inter Milan.