Arsenal ‘eye sporting director who discovered Kylian Mbappe to replace Edu’ following Nottingham Forest move

ARSENAL are reportedly lining up a swoop for Luis Campos arsenic their caller sporting director.

The Gunners person a relation to capable upstairs pursuing the shock departure of nine fable Edu Gaspar.

The Invincibles rubric victor helped alteration Mikel Arteta’s broadside into rubric contenders.

But helium stunned Arsenal by announcing his exit earlier this period to take up a presumption arsenic main executive of Nottingham Forest proprietor Evangelos Marinakis’ footballing empire.

The Gunners present deficiency a driving spark successful the transportation market.

And with Arteta’s men already 9 points down league leaders Liverpool, January reinforcements whitethorn beryllium needed.

Sky Sports claims a fig of names are nether consideration, including Bayer Leverkusen’s Simon Rolfes and ex-Real Sociedad antheral Roberto Olabe.

But astatine the apical of Arsenal’s database is nary different than Paris Saint-Germain main Campos.

The Portuguese scout supremo presently has the rubric of ‘Football Advisor’ astatine PSG.

Campos joined the French champs successful 2022, 2 years aft leaving Lille, portion inactive moving arsenic an outer advisor with Spanish broadside Celta Vigo.

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And helium has overseen a whopping £640million-worth of spending successful 5 transportation windows, bringing successful stars similar Vitinha, Ousmane Dembele and Randal Kolo Muani.

Before PSG, Celta and Lille, wherever helium signed Victor Osimhen, Campos made his sanction arsenic sporting manager astatine Monaco betwixt 2013 and 2016.

In that clip helium helped them motion immense names similar Bernardo Silva, Radamel Falcao and James Rodriguez.

And a twelvemonth aft Campos left, Monaco stormed to the Ligue 1 rubric with a squad afloat of his signings besides including Fabinho, Tiemoue Bakayoko and Thomas Lemar.

Campos was besides successful complaint erstwhile a definite Kylian Mbappe archetypal joined Monaco’s academy successful the summertime of 2013.

And Arsenal could present beryllium the adjacent halt connected his footballing journey.

Campos’ declaration astatine Paris Saint-Germain expires successful 2025, and determination person truthful acold been nary talks to support him successful the French superior beyond that.

It remains to beryllium seen whether Arsenal, should they determine Campos is so their man, determination present oregon hold until the extremity of the season.

But it’s understood they are successful nary unreserved to name Edu’s successor, with his No2 Jason Ayto and caput of recruitment James Ellis presently tiding things over.