Alex Ferguson has concerns that board rooms are holding too much power over player decisions instead of managers.
Jurgen Klopp was hired by Liverpool and he has to work with the club's transfer committee.
“If you don’t trust your manager, why have him there? You’ve got to trust your coach,” he said. “Here’s the man that should be deciding which kind of player he wants, the type of player, position he wants, his character he wants. It’s the manager who knows more than anyone about what he needs as a coach.
“And I think that, there’s a lot of this happening in the game now, these Moneyball ideas about looking at statistics of players and bypassing the manager’s thoughts, and I think it’s wrong.
“Why give him a job if he can’t do it? When they’re sitting around that table to appoint a manager, do they say, well: ‘He can be part of the committee?’ That’s wrong, and I don’t think Jürgen Klopp will accept that.”
Via The Guardian