Is there a successful English side with a Sporting Director?

[terry ball]

what about a poll to see who wants to keep gp in his roll or let a manager have full control

Here you go mate, perhaps this will be of some interest to you



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[Goddard]

Here you go mate, perhaps this will be of some interest to you



http://www.wearetherangersboys.com/f...ad.php?t=44411

What do fans know though??

A dammed sight more about football than our owner does, that's for sure.

I think it boils down to Flavio Briatore not having the balls to trust anyone from outside his comfort zone... like a football manager.
And a Director of Football is his version of a trusted henchman.

[qblockpete]

Think Nottingham Forest have a director of football

[Quaz]

Think Nottingham Forest have a director of football

cannot see one on their staff list unless David Pleat's consultant to the club role is the same.

[Goddard]

Think Nottingham Forest have a director of football

No.

To repeat:
David Pleat is a "football consultant" there.

And it's not something that Billy Davies is exactly doing cartwheels about:


In a quiet office at Forest's slightly chaotic academy complex, a mile from the City Ground, Davies reflects on what he has achieved. The conversation confirms the passion and excitement exuded by his jack-in-the-box pitch-side demeanour. Yet it reveals the potential for Forest's progress to be undermined.

It is a question about David Pleat that brings this to the surface. Pleat, the former Spurs manager turned media sage, is Forest's "football consultant", a role that gives him the ear of the club's multi-millionaire owner, the venture capitalist, Nigel Doughty, who is reckoned to have funnelled £50 million into the club.

Pleat's presence would be a source of discomfort for most managers, and rumours of spats with Davies have never been far away. Central to these was Pleat's place on Forest's transfer acquisitions committee, to which Davies must go if he wants to sign a new player.
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How long before that little arrangement causes a problem at Forest too?

[paulmason]

yes but she did the buying manager gaver her the targets

Thats not what we have so why mention it ?

[sirpiechucker]

Nope.

And I agree with Goddard. Doesn't matter who the sporting director is I still would not like the role.

Ultimately who was making decisions at Portsmouth Grant or Hart? If Grant was doing a good job then it just compromises the manager and if the manager is doing a good job then why have a Sporting Director?

[qpr48]

It never works in this country, it is a completely farcical position usually created to make room for someones ego until they fail miserably and get driven out of the club!

Except ours.