That probably is another case of a Director of Football having the control over how the team wants to play then. The guy at City played most of his career in the same Barcelona team as Guardiola. No surprise that they are on the same page on how they want to play and which players can do it, and City have the finances to go and get Guardiola once he became available.City's DOF is Txiki Begiristain, and he more or less runs the football operations for them, which includes recruitment.
Liverpool has some guy named Michael Edwards as their DOF. I have no idea how much of the club that he controls.
Maybe what we need then is a head of recruitment.
I get that the English footballing culture is still clinging on to the notion of the manager or chairman doing everything, but that setup is quickly dying and Spurs needs to adapt with the times.
I guess that is the way to make sure there is no fight between the Director of Football and the manager. Poch always said he was the coach not the manager, so you do wonder who was making more strategic decisions. I guess that is what Levy means when he says attacking football is in our DNA ... the next set up whatever it is will be based on that as a strategy. I'm sure we will find a way to fuck it up but it sort of makes sense.