Dundee's new coaching roles laid out with attack and defence remits revealed
But he's delighted with the addition of Barry Nicholson as his new Dundee No 2 and has revealed the new backroom setup in place at Dens Park.
Former Rangers, Dunfermline and Aberdeen midfielder Nicholson started work at Dundee on Tuesday after more than a decade in coaching.
The majority of that time was spent at Fleetwood Town, where he worked under Pressley for a short time, before moving to Queen's Park as Callum Davidson's assistant.
And Pressley has been delighted to see the changes to Nicholson's coaching since they last worked together.
'I've got to say that I really enjoyed the process,' he said of the search for a new assistant.
'We ended up interviewing four candidates and they were of a really high standard. I mean that.
'The one thing that it confirmed to me is that there's so many young educated coaches out there these days.
'The level of coaching and the level of detail really impressed me.
'I worked with Barry eight years ago and just from speaking to him, his presentation around the themes that we wanted, he's evolved enormously.
'Even in the day-and-a-half that he's been here I can see he's evolved enormously. I'm really pleased.
'I think he's got a really good way with people and players.
'Connections ultimately are one of the key factors but he's got a really good knowledge and of course he's also got real experience of working as an assistant coach.
'When I arrived at Fleetwood, Barry was the development coach.
'He's got good experience in that area and then I brought him up to the first team at the start of the second season.
'I resigned from my position two weeks before the start of the season so I never really got the opportunity to work with him on a consistent basis.
'But as I've said he really impressed in the interview and he's evolved a lot.'
In addition to bringing in Nicholson, Pressley appointed Glen Johnson as goalkeeping coach and has moved Scott Paterson up from first-team coach.
Asked about the thinking behind that move, Pressley explained: 'I want a very collaborative approach.
'Barry will be very much responsible for the attacking principles and have a real focus on that.
'Scott will have a real focus on the defensive principles of the team.
'[Technical manager] David Longwell will have a foot in both camps while also having a real focus on the individual development of the players within that.
'I did want a collaborative approach. I didn't want anybody being ahead of each other and us all working very much together to achieve success.
'It was brought to my attention that Scott's title would be slightly different [to Nicholson's]. That's not what I wanted.
'I wanted a clear collaborative approach.'
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