Doesn't matter if he is or isn't given the job to sign players or identify them anymore mate, the new manager is going to be the bloke who hired him as his head of recruitment at Newcastle - so they will decide together - think at Newcastle they signed roughly 13-14 players in one summer - of which I think 3 of them played more than 40 games for the club and over half of them either never played or where 30+ when they where signed,
this is what we have to look forward too, that recruitment in one summer ended up wrecking Newcastle in terms of what they could and couldn't do transfer wise for years. lots of high wages on players no one would then subsequently take from them