Hmmmm. As I understand it, the manager has always had the final say on players the recruitment team had identified - not the other way round. I know what's been said, and maybe it's the way journos are reporting things ("Brighton are interested in XXX, a player Robert De Zerbi has long admired...
Is De Zerbi now identifying the players he wants and telling the recruitment team he wants them? - instead of the recruitment team (and the algorithms) identifying players and offering the manager the final say yay or nay. Hope not - if that is the case and leads to a clash it isn't going to end...