The job should only be given to someone who had proven credentials in building a great squad. You know like City did with the guy who helped Pep build the best ever Barca squad
So your logic for not wanting United to appoint an ex player with no previous experience in a DOF role is highlighting Barcelona appointing an ex player with no previous experience in a DOF role?
Most of the successful DOFs have been ex players (Txiki, Monchi, Zorc, Overmars) with little or no experience in DOF roles prior to taking their most successful role.
DOF is not the same as management, you're not held accountable for the coaching or setting up the team. You pick players and have a set philosophy of what fits and ole has shown evidence of this.
Everyone belittles the signings he made as being the obvious choices or ones we had scouted by previous managers. If that's the case then why did Moyes, LVG and Mou have such patchy transfer windows if all great players are so obvious. Why have the players brought in in the last 7 years largely been unmotivated flops who have failed to settle.
Ole is a crap manager but when people are calling for him for DOF its not out of delusion or romanticism, its out of seeing the first positive transfer window in a long time. It was far from perfect and we should have signed at least a starting striker and midfielder but it felt like the first time we were weeding out bad influences in the dressing room and bringing in players who were committed. I like that side of what Ole is doing.
I don't care if he's not given the DOF role either, he could be paid off today and asked to leave and I would be fine with that. I just don't think you need to be a proven successful coach in order to do well in that role because it is absolutely nothing to do with coaching and everything to do with identifying players with the right temperament and profile to fit the club.