After Manchester United's farcical transfer window, which saw the Old Trafford side reportedly bid for no less than nine midfield players - and recruit just one - Marouane Fellaini - Damien Comolli has led calls for United to appoint a director of football to ease the pressure on manager David Moyes and executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward.
Comolli told BBC Radio 5 Live: ‘If there was a club in need of a director of football to ease the process for both individuals it was Manchester United. David [Moyes] only joined on 1 July which was quite late.
'The issue for Manchester United is that the two most important people at the club in Sir Alex Ferguson and David Gill left their positions and new people came in for their first transfer window.
‘For some reason the club weren’t prepared or they didn’t think it would be that difficult and they ended up in a difficult situation.’
The director of football model has long been popular on the continent, but English football has remained suspicious, anxious that it can compromise the power and responsibility of the manager.
But increasingly, Premier League clubs are beginning to buy into the two-tiered structure, and the model is implemented in some fashion by at least 10 top-flight clubs.
Indeed, the most coherent approaches to the transfer market this summer appear to have come from the likes of Tottenham and Manchester City, with a perfectly balanced and harmonious relationship between a Director of Football, the manager and the money-men.
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