Liverpool managing director Ian Ayre says new manager Brendan Rodgers will have a football director working with him.
Ayre insists there will be a number of people employed to fulfil the duties of a sporting director and Rodgers seems happy with the way it has been explained to him.
"The structure - and Brendan is aware of this - is a more continental director of football-type structure, a collaborative group of people working around the football area," said Ayre.
"We don't envisage at this moment in time having a director of football per se but a group of people working with Brendan to deliver the football side of it.
"It is a whole range of people with a range of skill sets and Brendan will have a big impact into that."
Ayre denied that new signings not identified by the new manager would be imposed on the team.
"It is not a signing by committee, it is an analysis by committee," he added.
"But it is certainly not a structure where we would force any player on the manager, as an example.
"It is a very typical continental style with a collaborative of people qualified across various different areas of the football business working the best together for Brendan to be able to do his job."