Whats involved in the Director Role?

Maybe..

Scouting for players,
Link between manager and board.
Building relationships around the world with other clubs
Implementing youth policy

Purely a guess. Comolli's a good DOF I think? Gets a lot of stick but brought in some good players at Spurs because he's got the knowledge and contacts established for a while now. Zola i doubt would.

Usually a director of football is responsible for buying/selling players, negotiating contracts etc.

usually they work with a head coach as opposed to a manager. it's the continental way of doing things, rather than the traditional british way, whereby the manager is responsible for both roles.

Well I don't know about other clubs, but at Chelsea the director aka Frank Arnesen used to stand outside Fulham Broadway, and direct people to the ground.

That, as far as I can tell, is all he ever did for us

usually they work with a head coach as opposed to a manager. it's the continental way of doing things, rather than the traditional british way, whereby the manager is responsible for both roles.

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Exactly. That´s how all clubs do it in the Bundesliga for example.

I feel this approach works well because the manager is not a manager as such, he is a head coach who´s responsibility is to simply coach the team, select the players and choose the tactics for every game.

Of course the head coach gets a say in transfers but transfers, contracts, scouting etc comes under the responsibility of the Director of Football.

I personally like this style of management because it divides up the work load, pressure and responsibility of the Head Coach.

The director of football is the man who is in charge of the direction your football team is taking. So primarily they will be in charge of signing the younger players as well as basically running the youth setup.

Director of football is very important, especially for a team like us. You see, we've had so many different managers playing different styles that is has ruined some of the youths development because one regime they are trying to be moulded to play one way, then the next is completely different. The DOF would give them stability.

Basically a manager cannot just come in and get the previous regime's players to play like Barcelona, the DOF will be gradually shaping the team to play that way.

While Fergie and Wenger are practically DOF's themselves, Chelsea and probably City are the only other premier league teams that would benefit from such a position because it requires the club to have a level of stability in order to achieve their goals.

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Well said .

If you are referring to Emanalo's new role - I read he was going to be Sports Director - whether this is the same as Director of Football - I do not know

Maybe he's actually going into retail & is going to be a Manager of a Sports Direct branch for that nice Mr Ashley in the north east