Paul Barber: “Paul [Winstanley] and his player recruitment and analysis team will report to Dan, but importantly their roles and responsibilities will not change. Paul will continue to head up this area, while continuing to work very closely with Chris, Tony and myself, as he has done for several years now.”
Uh oh. This is an organisational fudge, and, imo, likely to lead to one of PW or Dan leaving in the 1-3 year timescale.
Either, PW reports to Dan, in which case why is PB already limiting the changes that Dan can make to his team before the man has even started work, and why is he saying that PW will continue to work very closely with Tony, CH and himself?
Or, there’s in effect no change to PW’s reporting relationships and standing in the club, in which case why have him report to Dan?
A fudge, and one that will end in tears for one of the two men. You read it here first.
Could be to reduce Barber's direct span of control - not sure how many direct reports he has, but poss too many.