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One ex-player is already astatine the nine portion the different is simply a sporting manager elsewhere
- Emillia Hawkins, Sports Reporter
- Published: 13:15, 8 Nov 2024
- Updated: 13:15, 8 Nov 2024
ARSENAL person reportedly identified 2 imaginable candidates to regenerate outgoing sporting manager Edu Gaspar - and some are ex-Gunners.
The nine officially announced Edu's resignation and imminent departure connected Monday.
A connection read: "We convey Edu for the portion helium has played successful our renewed shot strategy and driving the nine guardant with the values of Arsenal successful his heart."
The Brazilian is expected to articulation Evangelos Marinakis' multi-club group successful a elder relation astatine the extremity of his six-month announcement and gardening permission period.
Jason Ayto has temporarily stepped successful portion Arsenal chiefs scout Edu's imperishable successor.
And according to French outlet Foot Mercato, 2 imaginable candidates person already been identified.
Former Gunners Per Mertesacker and Tomas Rosicky are said to beryllium "highly appreciated" by nine officials.
Mertesacker already works for Arsenal arsenic manager of the club's academy.
He antecedently made 221 appearances for the Gunners crossed 7 years earlier hanging up his boots.
Meanwhile, Rosicky is the sporting manager of Sparta Prague.
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Having antecedently worked arsenic an adjunct to ex-chief Zdenek Scasny, helium was promoted successful December 2018.
The midfielder spent 10 years with Arsenal arsenic a subordinate and made 246 appearances.
Edu's exit is simply a immense nonaccomplishment for Mikel Arteta and Arsenal volition consciousness precise antithetic without him, says SunSport's Jack Rosser
Club officials are said to beryllium unfastened to antithetic options successful their hunt for a caller sporting director.
They are not insistent connected replacing Edu like-for-like with an ex-player.
How Edu made Arsenal large again
By Jack Rosser
EDU GASPAR has been connected a ngo to 'Make Arsenal Great Again' ever since returning to the nine helium played for 2019.
After a fewer wobbles aboriginal connected - signing Nicolas Pepe volition ne'er bespeak good - the Brazilian has, alongside Mikel Arteta, been important successful the club's transformation.
Arteta was brought successful arsenic the caller manager wrong months of Edu's instrumentality to North London and the erstwhile midfielder stuck by the brag erstwhile the unit was connected 2 years into the job.
Instead of making the knee-jerk determination to alteration manager again, the erstwhile Brazil international, joined forces with Arteta to institute a immense alteration of civilization astatine The Emirates.
Overpaid toxic influences specified arsenic Mesut Ozil and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang were purged from the dressing country and Arsenal acceptable astir adding beardown characters.
Edu yet got the nine competing successful the transportation marketplace again, with Martin Odegaard an outstanding seizure for the club. In landing Declan Rice up of Manchester City past twelvemonth Arsenal showed they mates vie for and motion immoderate of Europe's biggest talents erstwhile more.
Arsenal person go 1 of the astir charismatic clubs successful the Premier League and 1 of the astir businesslike successful the market.
While determination person been large deals for the likes of Rice and Calafiori, determination person been astute ones excessively - picking retired worth wherever others person mislaid hope.
Kai Havertz appeared arsenic a astonishing signing aft a dreadful play astatine Chelsea. But aft Edu gave the German abstraction and enactment to rebuild his assurance helium has developed into a good plus for Arteta.
Edu does not lone person a choky narration with Arteta - who galore fans volition beryllium gladsome signed a caller woody earlier the sporting director's departure - but the players too, ever acceptable and waiting to cheque in, support them going.
London Colney and The Emirates volition consciousness a precise antithetic spot for each of them without Edu.