The hope is that the club now have a ethos around transfer dealings and although Ole would have a say I believe the club has decided they now have a set transfer policy regardless of who the manager is. Signing Maddison would match the same ethos based on our summer buys. So would Sancho for that matter and I think if we can get both of these guys it would make a massive difference moving the team forward. These two would plug the two biggest holes in our team.
We cant change the team in one transfer window but if get these two are in the next couple of windows the club as a whole is doing the right thing in my opinion regardless of who the manger is.
Until we bring in a top quality DOF then we'll be sticking to the whims of the manager who will be calling the shots regarding transfers. That's how United had been working in the past 30 years or so.
Hence why we need a top quality DOF who shares the club's principles. Once that is on board he'll bring in the manager who shares that ethos. In turn they will bring in the players who fit in those principles. I dare to say that rather then a DOF we should aim to split football from business, we should push Woody to take care of the latter and we should bring someone who actually knows United and football as CEO. You might not know but a certain Van Der Sar is doing fairly well in the job at Ajax.
So you would have VDS as CEO, Campos as DOF, Mitchell as head of recruitment and Ole as manager. Hopefully these guys will, on one hand, support Ole on his insistence in having young players but on the other hand introduce him to the obscure world outside the EPL. Believe it or not there's quite some talent out of the UK as well.