Carlo Ancelotti has already managed to change a lot at Everton since his arrival at Goodison Park.
The Blues are in the mix for European qualification this term after a strong summer in the transfer market with the club's coaching staff all pulling together to improve matters on and off the pitch.
Earlier this week, the ECHO conducted an exclusive interview with assistant manager Davide Ancelotti discussing a wide range of topics - including his working relationship with his father.
And that was up for discussion in the latest episode of our Royal Blue Podcast.
Phil Kirkbride was joined by Dave Prentice, Gavin Buckland and Adam Jones to go over all of the latest Everton news and get their thoughts on how the coaching setup currently is at the club.
Taking ideas from multiple parties is something our panel loved to see Ancelotti doing and the healthy nature in which the Blues are being coached was up for a lot of praise!
Listen to the latest edition of the Royal Blue Podcast in full HERE
Gavin: All good managers in any trade these days, not just football, you invite feedback feedback and ideas. Ultimately you're in pole position to reject or accept them, so I think any good manager does that.
I'm going to go all "Prenno" here and talk about Colin Harvey and Howard Kendall!
Ultimately it's up to you to make the final decision, but all good managers invite comments and things that they can maybe do things better.
It's a way of improving standards really isn't it, and that's what everybody wants. So I think that's good and what you would expect from Carlo.
That's what you would expect a top manager to do, not just on the training ground but you have stats guys behind the scenes don't you?
It's very much an information-driven role now. Those days of standing around the training pitch dictating things on your own are long gone.
Phil: Prenno, almost until maybe the final session before a game, maybe up until that last point Carlo takes a backwards step and lets Duncan and Davide take the sessions.
I don't know, what's your perception of Davide? He will be aware of people raising eyebrows, pardon the pun, when he comes in with his dad.
But he seems to have made a very good impression?
Dave: By all accounts, I'm told he's a lovely person. He always stops to talk to my daughter when she works in Waitrose because he's aware she's a big Evertonian!
On the training pitch, because Carlo's got such a big personality and big reputation, it's almost like he's always in the background and he's there because of his dad.
Clearly he isn't. Clearly he's a very impressive and talented coach in his own right.
It's always been the case that most football managers canvas opinions and listen to others.
I remember when Walter Smith once said to me he played Michael Branch up front, I forget what game it was, but he told me afterwards 'some idiot decided to listen to his assistant manager Archie Knox and play Branch up front!'
So managers do listen to their assistants and do sometimes put their ideas into action. That's how we ended up with David Ginola, because Archie saw him tear it up for Aston Villa reserves and thought he could still do a job for us. Clearly he couldn't!
Davide is clearly going to have more influence on his dad than perhaps other coaches will because of who he is, but you get the impression Carlo will always decide - he is the man.
I'm pleased there's a brains trust if you like and they're all listening to different points of view. Duncan Ferguson is part of that now as well.
In the past he wasn't, certainly under the Marco Silva era it was suggested he was sidelined to a certain degree and his views maybe weren't listened to as much as he would have liked. That's not the case anymore.
They put things out amongst themselves and discuss things, which is a very healthy way to run a football club.
The bottom line, though, is there's one man who makes the decisions. Once he's canvassed all those opinions, he decides what's right - because the buck stops with him and he loses his job if things don't go well.
It's reassuring to hear that we've got people in place that are impressive and doing their job particularly well.
