It's an interesting one with Sporting Directors isn't it? I think possibly we overthink it, looking back on events here for example, and over the park. You can have the same guy sat in an ineffective sinecure under one structure (Edwards under Ayre with Rogers), then see it become best of breed under a different structure (Ayre leaves, Klopp arrives, the process dovetails for a while). Then at Everton you see a number of heads of scouting or sporting Zeligs arrive and it never works at all - Marcel Brands, Steve Walsh... whoever it is, Moshiri still just picks up the phone and buys whoever he wants.
