Narcis Pelach is a "football nut" who works harder than anyone to try and get his vision across, according to someone who has seen him in action.
The Spaniard spent nearly three years coaching at Huddersfield Town, where David Fox, ex-Premier League player and son of former Potters keeper Peter, was working as a scout and loan manager.
Fox - who attended his first City game at the Victoria Ground aged just two weeks old - told BBC Radio Stoke: "I worked with him at Huddersfield for a couple of years. Narcis always wanted to be a manager - you could tell he had this end game of being a manager somewhere.