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By time wasting I mean that there are other people in the organisation that can do all the legwork. SH may well have given DB a list of players, so DB goes off and investigates them all (I would hazard a guess that getting Tex was a result of this). SH does not need to do that. If we cannot get...

Selling isn't an issue if you already have the replacements either in the squad or already lined up. The best people in the transfer market always sell when they receive offers that were more than the player was worth (in their eyes), but then they usually had replacements in place. We don't...

And what happens if the players that the manager wants to recruit are unaffordable, unavailable or do not want to come to the club? Please see Oscar's january list as a good example. There seems to be an assumption by many on here that because a manager chooses a player, we can automatically...

Answering your question about when his time got stretched. So I have posted his responsibilities for you so that you can determine for yourself what he does all day. Hope it helps.

Head of Football OperationsBrighton and Hove Albion Football ClubJanuary 2012 – Present (2 years 11 months)The Amex StadiumManaging the football aspects of the Club,on behalf of the Chairman working closely with the head coach and CEO, including: Player and transfer negotiation. Player budget...

Possibly. We know he does have input though. It is a continental set up so perhaps Ernest has it right by saying that British managers will not work with this system, hence we have recruited a continental manager again? Edit: Just seen Chaileyjem's post, so forget that last sentence!

But our current manager said when he joined that he was happy to leave recruitment to someone else as he had never been involved in it before. I agree with other that I am sure that it is constantly under review, but I do not believe that he will change the process, just perhaps the people...