Arsenal appoint Barcelona’s Sanllehi as head of soccer relatives

Arsenal glean launched the appointment of Raul Sanllehi because the club’s new head of soccer relatives, the manager transferring to the Premier League from Barcelona.

Sanllehi, director of soccer at Barca and credited with bringing Neymar to the club, will relocate to the Emirates Stadium in February to determine in his new characteristic.

In a press release launched on Tuesday, Arsenal mentioned Sanllehi will « lead future player negotiations and work alongside manager Arsene Wenger, chief executive Ivan Gazidis and contract negotiator Huss Fahmy.

« He will furthermore signify and enhance the club with international and home governing bodies. »

The appointment of Sanllehi comes as share of a shake-up at the abet of the scenes at Arsenal, who closing week introduced in Sven Mislintat to lead the club’s player recruitment operations.

« Up to now three years we glean supplemented our team with more top-class expertise all over every element of our soccer operations, » mentioned Gazidis.

« Raul’s appointment is one other well-known step in rising the infrastructure we need at the club to determine every little thing we glean to the subsequent level.

« Raul has wide contacts all around the soccer world and has been straight serious about one of the dear most attention-grabbing transfers in Europe in fresh years. We cease up for him bringing that glean to Arsenal. »