West Bromwich Albion chief Terry Burton insists manager Tony Pulis is in charge of transfers.
Burton is adamant Pulis will have the final say on new faces.
He said: "It's rubbish the things that have been written and spoken about. The thing I think everybody gets fazed about is the titles: technical director and head coach.
"It is football people working together with one aim, which is to win matches. My role is to assist the head coach.
"If somebody had called me an 'assistant' it would have been clearer and everyone would have said: 'Oh, is that what happens?'
"My role is to assist the head coach in whatever way I can and to work between the head coach and the board and chairman.
"It is no different really from many other roles I have done in football - maybe just different in that most of those 'assistant' roles have been out on the football pitch, out on the training ground, working with the team.
"Now I'm trying to assist Tony to make us as successful as we possibly can. You do that as always by communication, by talking: 'What do you need?' That's a two-way communication.
"There is no way in the world that as a manager I would have let somebody give me a player that I didn't want. But I might not have always got the player if the player didn't want to come, or we couldn't afford him."