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The key is for the club to insulate itself against a manager leaving by having a strong support team that stays in place regardless of who the head coach/manager is. This worked well when Lowe left and in theory should have worked with the Foster appointment.

There are problems with this approach however. Firstly it might limit the type of head coach you can attract if they don’t have control over areas of recruitment and playing style. Secondly if things go wrong it’s hard for the director of football to survive more than one poor managerial appointment, meaning you end up tearing it up and starting from scratch again anyway.

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