Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho is said to have predicted the club's decision to appoint its first director of football, with the Red Devils having reportedly long held plans to install a transfer figurehead.
Tensions among the United hierarchy this summer led to a disjointed transfer window, and Ciaran Kelly of the Manchester Evening News said it's a decision that was "a long time coming" for executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward.
Kelly also included quotes from Mourinho, who teased someone else taking the club's lead over transfers moving forward, just two days before it emerged an appointment was in the works: "I think football is changing and managers should be called head coaches.