This is exactly how the Knapper project should work, as he has said before the ethos/project remains while all other aspects/staff/players are interchangeable pieces including himself. The recruitment strategy and targets remain the same no matter the manager. It is not Manning or Thorups recruitment, they are Head Coaches. The manager may help sway the players decision to join, but the targeted players will be from Knapper and the recruitment teams plans not the demands of a manager. This way we can hopefully have a squad that fits the project and then recruit managers that fit within that vision, rather than a Man Utd style mess of that seems to lurch between stylistic changes, recruitment to fit the manager, only for the manager to be sacked and a new managaer to be left with the remnants of the last 3 or 4 iterations of a plan. Medic for example is apparently a player that has been watched for over 2 years by the club - prior to him joining Ajax.
