{"id":85532,"date":"2025-05-08T20:35:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T20:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/85532\/"},"modified":"2025-05-08T20:35:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T20:35:11","slug":"roberto-de-zerbi-lined-up-for-premier-league-return-12-months-after-brighton-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/85532\/","title":{"rendered":"Roberto De Zerbi lined up for Premier League return – 12 months after Brighton exit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fabio Paratici has recommended Roberto De Zerbi to Tottenham Hotspur as a potential Ange Postecoglou replacement, talkSPORT understands.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Former Brighton boss De Zerbi<\/a>, now at Marseille in Ligue 1, is believed to be open to a return to the Premier League.<\/p>\n

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De Zerbi is on the radar at Spurs ahead of the summerCredit: Getty<\/p>\n

As reported last week, ex-Spurs managing director Paratici has held talks<\/a> over returning to the club after serving his FIFA ban.<\/p>\n

The Italian stood down<\/a> in April 2023 and was handed a worldwide ban after being found guilty of financial malpractice at Juventus.<\/p>\n

Paratici now appears to have suggested his compatriot De Zerbi’s name for the Spurs<\/a> hotseat should Postecoglou leave.<\/p>\n

De Zerbi joined Brighton<\/a> from Shakhtar Donetsk in 2022 and was the successor to Graham Potter, who moved to Chelsea.<\/p>\n

The 45-year-old guided the Seagulls to European qualification for the first time in the club’s history at the end of his first season.<\/p>\n

Brighton reached the last-16 of the Europa League, but were knocked out by Roma.<\/p>\n

De Zerbi spent a second season at the club, however it was announced ahead of the final day that he would leave.<\/p>\n

He then moved to France last summer by joining Marseille, who are second in Ligue 1 behind champions Paris Saint-Germain.<\/p>\n

Manchester United were also linked with De Zerbi, who reportedly showed his Marseille players his offer<\/a> from the Old Trafford side.<\/p>\n

The Italian could be set to return to the Premier League<\/a> after just one year away should Spurs make a managerial change.<\/p>\n

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De Zerbi could return to England after just one year awayCredit: GettyJamie O’Hara believes Tottenham have had a better season than Arsenal if these two things happen<\/p>\n

talkSPORT reported in March that the north London side have a list of potential replacements<\/a> if they part ways with Postecoglou.<\/p>\n

Sources claim that Bournemouth boss Andoni Iraola would be Spurs chairman Daniel Levy’s top target.<\/p>\n

Marco Silva and Thomas Frank of Fulham and Brentford respectively are other targets for Spurs.<\/p>\n

However, both have hefty release clauses in their current contracts.<\/p>\n

Postecoglou has endured a difficult second season at Spurs as they sit 16th in the Premier League with only 11 wins.<\/p>\n

However, they could be set to reach the Europa League final, with the second leg against Bodo\/Glimt live on talkSPORT 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fabio Paratici has recommended Roberto De Zerbi to Tottenham Hotspur as a potential Ange Postecoglou replacement, talkSPORT understands.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85533,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[1169,94,101,20074,79,2358,1368,201,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-85532","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-brighton","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-premier-league","11":"tag-roberto-de-zerbi","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-spurs","14":"tag-tottenham","15":"tag-tottenham-hotspur","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114474131369338347","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}