Edu Gaspar resigns as Sporting Director | News

Edu Gaspar has right now resigned from his place as our Sporting Director.

Edu, our former participant and Invincible, re-joined us within the position of Technical Director in July 2019. He progressed by means of the membership and was promoted to Sporting Director in November 2022, the place he oversaw males’s, ladies’s and academy soccer.   

We thank Edu for the half he has performed in our renewed soccer technique and driving the membership ahead with the values of Arsenal in his coronary heart. 

Edu stated: “This was an extremely exhausting choice to make.

“Arsenal has given me the chance to work with so many superb folks and the possibility to be part of one thing so particular within the membership’s historical past. It has been a particular journey and I thank Stan, Josh, Tim and Lord Harris for the help they’ve given me.  

“I’ve beloved working with so many nice colleagues throughout our males’s, ladies’s and academy groups, particularly Mikel, who has change into an incredible buddy. 

“Now it’s time to pursue a distinct problem. Arsenal will all the time stay in my coronary heart. I want the membership and its supporters solely good issues and all the perfect.”

Our Co-Chair, Josh Kroenke, added: “We respect Edu’s choice and thank him for his immense contribution and dedication to drive the membership ahead.  

“Everybody on the membership needs him properly. We’re all so keen on him and the constructive vitality he brings to all the pieces and everybody.  

“Change and evolution is part of our membership.  We stay centered on our technique and profitable main trophies. Our succession plan will mirror this continued ambition.”