Quote Originally Posted by mellowmiller View Post
Certainly food for thought but autocracies aren't renowned for devolving executive authority so re-creating a Director of Football role is unlikely to be high on the list of priorities.
Also you can't help but wonder if SE insisted on a free reign before he agreed to come back which would have inevitably meant the end of the DoF appointment.
I agree with that assessment, SE is all about him and his enormous ego. In my opinion, the idea for him of having people between him and TS and others setting recruitment strategy isn't something he can accept. If I recall the reason they state that he left the first time was related to disagreement about how the club goes forward regarding players etc.

At the moment it looks to me as if SE has too much influence and the outcome is failure, in regards to targets that he himself set. NEVER OUT OF THE BOTTOM HALF ALL SEASON