David Flitcroft is being linked to the sporting director role that Carlisle United are creating at Brunton Park.
Employed to work with a head coach, it’s a relationship that depends on the chemistry between the two men and how their views on football align in various circumstances.
Flitcroft has been a director of football for three years at Port Vale before he left earlier this year. He is now being touted as the man that Carlisle United are looking at for the new role at the club.
As director of football he had come in for fierce criticism from a number of Vale fans and paid the price for the club’s poor form which ultimately led to relegation.
Carlisle currently sit 22nd in League Two after patting company with manager Paul Simpson
Flitcroft played over 450 games in the Football League between 1992 and 2011, notably at Chester (167) and Rochdale (160).
The younger brother of former Man City and Blackburn player Gary Flitcroft, 50-year-old David has had managerial experience as well with Barnsley, Bury with whom he enjoyed promotion, Swindon and Mansfield.
He has also worked as assistant manager at Bolton to Keith Hill, the third club where the two had worked together.
He then had three years as director of football at Port Vale after initially applying for the vacant managerial role. Club chair Carol Shanahan decided to appoint him instead to manage the club’s football operations and to link the board of directors with the first-team.[
