New Manly CEO Tim Cleary has forecast further personnel changes at the Sea Eagles and says it’s up to club legend Bob Fulton to decide if he wants to be a part of the modernisation of the club.

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Tensions are running high at Manly headquarters after Cleary punted Fulton’s daughter Kristie from the commercial team last week.

But Cleary remains committed to overhauling the structure of the club and told Fairfax Media he is waiting for an answer from management on whether he has the authority to make changes to Fulton’s football department.

"As part of my plan to get to where I'm going, I need to put my team in place," Cleary told Fairfax Media.

"I hope that people would gauge that I am trying to strengthen the governance of the club for years to come.

“It's pretty frequent in club land that coaches and (administrators) put in the teams they need to support their models of what success looks like.

“I need to make sure (the best) people are in those positions."

Cleary added he intends to ‘modernise’ the Sea Eagles’ structure and says it’s up to Fulton to decide if he wants to be a part of that process or not.

Asked if he is confident he can work with Fulton going forward, Cleary replied: “That’s a question you’d have to ask him.

“… I'm not putting a line in the sand saying it's me or him, I'm not doing that.

“I'm just saying that as CEO I have the capacity to deliver the governance across the brand, not just as the CEO of the administration - therein lies the issue.

"It's an iconic brand, it's lasted the test of time and so has Bob. I've got the ultimate respect for him, he's an Immortal, he's been at the club for over 50 years.

"… If I can modernise the place and work practices – and whether Bob is a part of that – he will determine that, not me."