Director of Football

I would also have a scouting director, financial director, pr director and hr director. This would be the board. Each with their own manager. This would be the management team.

CEO would obviously be Staveley.

 

Do you work for the NHS?

 

Ha ha no I’m an accountant. Working in a trust but in all the establishments I have worked in the best ones have the right structure in place.

 

I was only jesting.

Too many cooks spoil the broth.

My mum used to be an area manager for the NHS and she said that they literally have a manager for every individual task and that one person could literally do the job of 8.

 

Yes you can have to many. That’s why I say 5 at board level including the ceo. And 4 on the management team. They then run their separate areas independent of each department in the main. But they also take responsibility for what has been agreed at board level.

 

It would work as a mattix management team interacting with the board. The board make the decisions. The board members relay the decisions to their own managers as to what they have to do. Then the managers meet to discuss how they are going to do it. And feed back etc.
Meanwhile the club staff under have clear guidance as to what should be done.

 

This is no lie, I know that in one trust someone a friend of mine knows was the cutlery manager. Literally sole job to manage the cutlery

 

I reckon we have got a ready made board on this errr board. My job is cash management so I've got the job of making sure the 300 billion is looked after properly sorted

 

Wtf was that wor penfold?

 

And Jak is the banker...no, don’t think that’s what Chippy said. But it definitely sounded like banker...err...

 

Its a high pressure role that- one mistake and the knives are out.

 

The term Director of Football suggests that he is on the board of directors.

The board appoints the managers, who change more often than the directors.

 

Yep. And you can get forked with your excuses too

 

everyone going to have opinions on things, but tbh they can do wtf they like..

 

It's obviously a sentimental slant but I'd like to see KK come back in some upstairs role - recruitment / ambassador /local pundit. He can be a very positive character, and connects with fans, but obviously business doesn't often include characters from the distant past.

 

Dabizas fancies it

 

For clubs that are investing £££ into players a DoF makes sense, as a change in manager generally has seen a change in style and therefore a change in players. A DofF can should be able to control some of that investment and make it smoother.

As a scaled down example, Rafa had a decent pot to spend in the Championship compared to other teams. He invested and built a good squad with the odd strange signing or two (Lazaar / Gamez), but once we had achieved the objective of promotion, we were stuck with a squad full of players that weren't necessarily the right players for the next objective of Premier league competitiveness.

For me a DofF may have controlled some of the investment and then worked with the manager to sell-on / rebuild.

As for who it should/could be not a clue.
Does a good manager necessarily make a good DofF, in the same way good player doesn't equate to good manager?

 

The reason we were stuck though was the owner got greedy

 

We're looking at Niko Dabizas.

 

Dabizas is an interesting one. As previous posters have stated. We should not appoint based on sentiment but rather on their ability to do the job.