Brian Clough would have told Nottingham Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis to "calm down" if 22 summer signings were planned under his management. That's according to former Liverpool midfielder turned pundit Graeme Souness, who said Clough would want the "football sphere" left in his control if he were in charge at Forest today.
Souness says the legendary manager would have refused to work under a director of football or head of scouting, too, and it would be "hard to imagine" him working at the City Ground under Marinakis. "It's 18 years this week since Clough died and football is a different world now to the one when our team and his team went head to head - no quarter spared," Souness wrote in his latest Daily Mail column.
"We have directors of football, heads of scouting and recruitment committees. There's not a chance that Clough would have accepted any of them. He was a manager in the full meaning of the word. He managed and he controlled virtually every aspect of that football club. And he did all the talking.
