Malky and Adams - It could be made to work.

[CanaryFrom1979 0]

Here''s how

Malky is Head Coach, appoints Assistant Coaches and First Team Coaches, is responsible for First Team Scouting, Matches and Recruitment.

Adams is Director of Football, responsible for promoting a Norwich Philosophy (which by his track record he already has bought into) for Academy, U21/B Teams, scouting and recruitment of Coaches, Players and Staff (inc Sports Sciences, an area where clubs can make useful performance gains), the Director of Football would be accountable to the CEO and board, this way could ensure a continuity of philosophy at the club.

As long as the CEO and board made it contractually clear that the Head Coach was responsible for the First Team and the Dir of Football for everything else I would suggest we have the best of both worlds.

This way Norwich City could have a clear identity in coaching and playing football bought into by coaches and players (how better to recruit players than by showing them that at NCFC they have a fair chance of making the first team), alongside this an experience Head Coach and his staff.

FFP and the Prem Lg has irrevocably changed football, NCFC should be an early adopter of new ideas and build upon our status as a Cat 1 and debt free club.

How about it?

[Norfolk Mustard 94]

In that scenario, Neil Adams as Director of Football would need to interview and assess whether Malky does indeed embrace the ''Norwich Philosophy''.

That would be an interesting exercise.

And should zero applicants buy-in to NA''s ethos, I guess NA would just carry on doing the first team job himself?

 

[CanaryFrom1979 0]

Not so

Adams would not have any jurisdiction with regards to the first team, it would be unconnected to his role which would be about longer term strategy rather than first team coaching and recruitment. It would be good if they had a shared vision, but if not and in the possibility that Malky or whoever was Head Coach failed the continuity of coaching and the development of players would continue.

The role of Head Coach would be solely concentrated on the First Team and he would be accountable to the CEO and board (much as it is today).

The title Director of Football is used here to describe the function (it could just as easily be called Director of Strategy), what Dirs of F have done at other clubs is not a set model to be copied.