"My role at Bury has been defined now and I think everybody is happy with it and obviously I'm the director of football with Chris continuing as the team manager.  We will both bounce ideas of each other and hopefully he will look to use my experience and I will help him and the football club as much as I can, which is what I am here for."

"The relationship between me and the manager is vital and director of football role is becoming an important role.  It's obviously new to me, but if you look at three of the teams in the play offs, teams like Hartlepool, Lincoln and Bristol Rovers - they all have a director of football and they have all done very well.  It's a role that can work and we need to make it work for this football club."

"I've been here at the club a few times now and I am getting to know people.  My obvious priority is to get players into the first team squad, but I will also be taking a keen interest in the reserves and youth setup, and again, its an area that I have had experience with, and together with those people in those departments we can work together to make Bury Football Club a better club."

"I don't know any of the current players personally; I don't think any of the first team squad has had the pleasure of working with me.  Obviously I know of them and I've made enquiries about the others that I don't know.  At this moment in time, we have six or seven players under contract, another six or seven have been offered deals, so there is work to be done in getting the squad together for the start of pre-season and then we will obviously take if from there."

"I know what they can do on the field, I don't know what they are like as characters and how they react to certain people in different situations.  That's the hallmark of good players that can adapt and that's the players that we want and are looking for."

"I'm very pleasantly surprised with what I have seen and certainly the game against Mansfield that I watched, Bury are a big team and that did surprise me.  I think you need to be big in this division and if you look at the teams that are up there, they are big sides, they can all play, but they are big sides first and foremost."

"We need to make sure that we can compete both physically and mentally with all the teams that are up there.  We've started to move already on recruitment, both myself and Chris have spoken to a couple of players that are the type of play that we are looking for."

"I think people will be surprised at the type of player that will be available come the end of June.  I keep telling people that there is no rush, I know people will look at the squad and say that we haven't got too many players, but throughout my career, I've never been one to rush out and sign new players.  As long as they are here for July 5th and the start of pre-season training, then that's good enough for me."

"We will never get to the situation where I fancy a player and Chris doesn't or vice versa.  We will talk about players and we will band names about to each other.  I will make suggestions and Chris will make suggestions and we will make sure that both of us agree that a certain player is going to be good enough for this club, he wants to come to this club and that he is the type of player we want.  There won't be players that Chris doesn't like or players that I don't like."

"Hopefully the club have brought me in because of the situation with final league positions over the years.  That's not meant as being disrespectful to anyone that is here, but we want to move the club forward.  One of the things that happen in football that I have never been happy with is that everybody looks backwards.  Football is about today, it's not about what happened last year or yesterday.  It's about what is going to happen next season, and that's what I am here for."

There will be more from Keith Alexander on the website on Wednesday, including a full audio interview with the new Shakers director of football.