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Re: Backroom overhaul.

Postby GoonerAlexandre » Thu Nov 30, 2017 10:06 am

KG3 wrote:
Sims wrote:Once he’s gone he’s gone

There’s never been any rumours of him wanting to even be part of the board when his managerial says are up

He’ll be managing somewhere else once h e goes, hopefully it’ll be England but most likely it’ll be France


Would be funny if he went to Spurs and wins the league and champions league

In what world is that funny?
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Re: Backroom overhaul.

Postby KG3 » Thu Nov 30, 2017 10:17 am

GoonerAlexis wrote:
KG3 wrote:
Sims wrote:Once he’s gone he’s gone

There’s never been any rumours of him wanting to even be part of the board when his managerial says are up

He’ll be managing somewhere else once h e goes, hopefully it’ll be England but most likely it’ll be France


Would be funny if he went to Spurs and wins the league and champions league

In what world is that funny?


The one where everyone wants him out because he's holding us back, so him going to Spurs and delivering either of those trophies would be funny and you couldn't slate him either considering 50%+ wanted him out.
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Re: Backroom overhaul.

Postby CrimsonGunner11 » Fri Dec 01, 2017 2:29 pm

Who is new Arsenal Head of Football Relations Raul Sanllehi?

In recent years much has been made of and said about Arsenal’s activity in that bear-pit that is the international transfer market. Often disregarding what money they actually had available. But could the latest arrival at the Emirates be one of the most important signing the London club have made recently?

Raul Sanllehi has, by all accounts, been known to lace on a pair of boots and take to the field as a marauding left winger in fun games at Barcelona between directors, media, supporters club, celebrities and the like.

It’s fairly safe to assume that it is not his abilities in on the pitch that have persuaded Arsenal to bring him to the UK but rather his new role in effectively fronting a restructuring at the club that many feel will propel the Gunners right back into football’s elite. And that it has a political nature to it -more on that later.

Make no mistake, Arsenal’s gain is very much Barcelona’s loss. A source at the club said on news of his departure: “He has been doing a job that few people could do for more than a decade. He is savvy, brilliant at PR, an irreplaceable loss for Barcelona. He has the agenda and the contacts.”

In football as in life two of the most important things are the experience that you have and the people that you know and Sanllehi has them both… in spades.

Much of what is happening at Arsenal is political. Rather than recruit from within, and there is plenty of talent that could be maximised and used better, this looks like an Arsenal side that has very much – Wenger apart – gone back to the drawing board. And with Wenger at the forefront of everything. Does that really mean change then? We will have to see.

Sanllehi’s arrival at the club is the most important appointment in the new broom sweeping the Emirates’ corridors of power with new chief scout Sven Mislintat joining from Borussia Dortmund and former Team Sky commercial and business affairs director, the lawyer, Huss Fahmy taken on to focus on contracts

So just who is Raul Sanllehi?

Well let’s start by saying what he doesn’t do rather than what he does. The first misconception is that he is responsible for deciding who should be bought and sold and who shouldn’t. He isn’t.

What he is however is the main negotiator when a decision has been made on those fronts and probably the very best in the business at doing it.


He worked at Nike when he was headhunted in 2003 by the then director and later President of Barcelona FC, Sandro Rossell, to work at the club to improve its merchandising share of the market. With Joan Laporta in the Presidential seat and Txiki Beguiristain as Sporting Director his power base gradually grew until he became the main negotiator on matters concerning both new and existing contracts up for renovation.

One of his first major obstacles occurred with the appointment as President of Sandro Rossell who was eager to get rid rid of all things pertaining to the previous Laporta regime – Sanllehi included – and who also felt that he hadn’t been shown the required loyalty by him as he strived for the top job.

But he survived probably in no small measure because of Rossell’s reluctance to take on the job as Barcelona’s representative on the ECA (European Clubs Asociation) which is the organisation that comprises all of Europe’s top clubs.

It gave Sanllehi the chance to take on the role and with it came a worldwide influence and a contact list of football’s movers and shakers that was second to none. From that point on his international recognition grew hugely.

Needless to say when he joins Arsenal in February he will continue his connection with the ECA and also represent and support the London club with all international and domestic governing bodies.”

The former Sporting director at Barcelona now at Manchester City, Txiki Beguiristain says of him,”He is a great negotiator, constant, methodical. Fantastic guy, I get on great with him.”

When Txiki left he did not enjoy the same relationship with new man, Andoni Zubizarreta. When it came to the signing and negotiating for players two factions were formed from within the club. On the one hand Rossell and Sanllehi, on the other Zubizarreta and Bartomeu

Ironically, however, it It was under the rule of Zubizarreta that his power really grew. As someone said, “It wasn’t his fault if no one else could do what he could. He was the fixer, the one they looked for when they needed something done.”

His contacts and connections had made him irreplaceable at the club and the amount of time he spent in Brazil and the effort expended in the convoluted, controversial, seemingly unending saga that was the signing of Neymar tells us everything we would ever want to know about his commitment to the task in hand.

He made over 20 trips to Brazil spent entire seasons in South America. Where Neymar, his family, his entourage, went so did Sanllehi. Eventually the deal was done.

Unfortunately what probably made him most renowned also probably signalled the beginning of the end of his time with Barcelona. So involved was he that when the time came that Neymar decided to move on, the perception was that he was the only one that might have persuaded him to stay. But the player decided not to stay. And Sanllehí started to think that perhaps it was time to test his abilities somewhere else.

In fact even before Neymar’s departure, as far back as February he told his colleague, Albert Soler, until recently the director of professional sports at the club, that he was beginning to feel undermined at the club and was going to leave.
He felt he had lost authority and gravitas and was feeling generally uncomfortable.

But possibly Neymar’s departure was the straw that broke the camel’s back.

What is certain is that we – and in particular the tabloids – are going to have some fun with Raul who is about as interesting an individual as you ever likely to encounter.

Colleagues at Ara newspaper have mentioned his obsession with the palindromic nature of numbers and he has been rumoured to enter a car park and go up the floors, avoiding free spaces until such time as he comes across a palidromic number 505. 606, 707.

Albert Llimos writes in Ara that similarly when checking into hotels he is said to insist on a palindromic room number and it is said that will not get out of bed until his clock reads exactly a palindromic time, eg 7.07, 8.08, or 9.09. Should he miss the 10.01 ‘slot’ then it is said that his feet will not touch his bedroom floor until 11.11.

People that have worked with him will tell you that he doesn’t need much sleep but when he does choose to take forty winks he can do so practically with a flick of the fingers. He will, by all accounts, fall asleep before so much as the aeroplane he is travelling on has taken off and on one famous occasion was said to have falled asleep in the aisle of the jet that was taking the celebrating Barcelona players home from Tokyo after they had just won the World Club Championship.

Llimos speaks of his sending of whatsapp messages at four in the morning while taking his beloved dog, Wallace, for a walk. It is thought that he believes this is the best time for him to collect his thoughts as well as communicate with other countries in different time zones.

But such nuances and eccentricities should not disguise the fact that in Raul Sanllehi, Arsenal have acquired for themselves one of the sharpest, canniest, most shrewd and best football negotiator in the business. Hard and a strategist, fearless.

When it comes to negotiating he is a combination of tough and serious with a voice that commands respect but along with an entertaining and charismatic persona.

Today he will clear his desk and then set off on a two month holiday before statring work at the Emirates in February after the closing of the winter transfer window.

Perhaps the best and most concise assessment of Sanllehi comes from Andre Cury, a lawyer and Barcelona’s representative in Brazil who worked with him in the signing of Neymar. “He is unique,” he says.


Source: https://uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/new-ar ... 14430.html
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Re: Backroom overhaul.

Postby Losmeister » Fri Dec 01, 2017 6:20 pm

i like these moves...

and no that would NOT BE FUNNY ( Spurs comment)
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Re: Backroom overhaul.

Postby CrimsonGunner11 » Thu Dec 21, 2017 1:22 am

Exclusive - Arsenal's academy shake-up continues as Gunners snatch highly-rated Reading FC boss

Arsenal news includes news of a new appointment within the academy

Arsenal have lured Reading’s highly-rated academy manager Lee Herron away from Madejski Stadium.

Herron will soon move to the Gunners and slot into the new academy structure which is being put in place by the north London club.

Arsenal’s academy is currently headed by Luke Hobbs, who has been in charge since Andries Jonker left to manage Wolfsburg last year.

But in the summer, once he retires from his playing career, Per Mertesacker will take over as Arsenal’s new academy manager.

Hobbs will then work under Mertesacker and football.london understands that Herron will come in from Reading and take up a ‘football operations’ role within the management structure at Hale End.

That is a role which will include responsibilities such as sorting out schedules for Arsenal’s youth teams, organising tournaments for them around the world and ensuring their calendar gives them the best opportunity to progress through the ranks towards senior football.

Herron joined Reading in 2001 as part of the club’s ‘Football in the Community’ programme before taking up a role in the academy, which was then run by former Arsenal youth player Nick Hammond.

He then progressed through the academy working alongside Hammond, Brendan Rodgers and Eamonn Dolan, playing a key role in Reading being granted the highest grade in the Elite Player Performance Plan academy structure.

In 2016 he was named academy manager at the Berkshire club after the tragic death of Dolan following a battle with cancer.

During his 16-year stay at Reading, Herron has helped the club produce a constant supply-line of talent which has seen youngsters progress from the academy to represent the first team and also earn big money moves away.

The likes of Gylfi Sigurdsson, Shane Long and Hal Robson-Kanu are just some of the players he has helped nurture and turn into international stars.

It’s that work which has seen Herron come to the attention of Arsenal and it has now been agreed that he will swap Berkshire for north London to link up with Mertesacker’s new look academy set-up before the start of next season.


Source: http://www.football.london/arsenal-fc/n ... g-14064659
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Re: Backroom overhaul.

Postby PairyGrows » Thu Dec 21, 2017 7:57 am

So, Herron will be in charge of operating the youth team, not managing it. Yet the article mentions the players he has helped to flourish during his time as the youth team manager. Herron will be arranging trips, not coaching.

I think the club is trying to create this 'backroom overhaul' narrative out of nothing. If anythin, I consider these changes in personnel to be superficial at best.
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Re: Backroom overhaul.

Postby GoonerAlexandre » Thu Dec 21, 2017 8:01 am

PairyGrows wrote:So, Herron will be in charge of operating the youth team, not managing it. Yet the article mentions the players he has helped to flourish during his time as the youth team manager. Herron will be arranging trips, not coaching.

I think the club is trying to create this 'backroom overhaul' narrative out of nothing. If anythin, I consider these changes in personnel to be superficial at best.

And yet, look at who he's joining, a guy who came in last year, and Per who joins next year. Whatever you say, we've overhauled the Academy, and we've got a Director of Football in all but name.

When Wenger leaves, we're set
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Re: Backroom overhaul.

Postby gooney » Thu Dec 21, 2017 9:00 am

All that matters is wenger and kroenke. The club knows fans are unhappy with how the club is run. Hence why they are going overboard with this so called overhaul. Just pr move
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Re: Backroom overhaul.

Postby CrimsonGunner11 » Thu Dec 21, 2017 1:01 pm

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Re: Backroom overhaul.

Postby PairyGrows » Thu Dec 21, 2017 1:02 pm

GoonerAlexandre wrote:
PairyGrows wrote:So, Herron will be in charge of operating the youth team, not managing it. Yet the article mentions the players he has helped to flourish during his time as the youth team manager. Herron will be arranging trips, not coaching.

I think the club is trying to create this 'backroom overhaul' narrative out of nothing. If anythin, I consider these changes in personnel to be superficial at best.

And yet, look at who he's joining, a guy who came in last year, and Per who joins next year. Whatever you say, we've overhauled the Academy, and we've got a Director of Football in all but name.

When Wenger leaves, we're set


What I deem to be an overhaul is a systematic change in the way the club and/or the units within it are run, not just a few appointments here and there. If a machine isn't performing well, changing a few parts here and there most likely won't make the machine function more efficiently if the configuration causes the problems.
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Re: Backroom overhaul.

Postby GoonerAlexandre » Thu Dec 21, 2017 1:12 pm

PairyGrows wrote:
GoonerAlexandre wrote:
PairyGrows wrote:So, Herron will be in charge of operating the youth team, not managing it. Yet the article mentions the players he has helped to flourish during his time as the youth team manager. Herron will be arranging trips, not coaching.

I think the club is trying to create this 'backroom overhaul' narrative out of nothing. If anythin, I consider these changes in personnel to be superficial at best.

And yet, look at who he's joining, a guy who came in last year, and Per who joins next year. Whatever you say, we've overhauled the Academy, and we've got a Director of Football in all but name.

When Wenger leaves, we're set


What I deem to be an overhaul is a systematic change in the way the club and/or the units within it are run, not just a few appointments here and there. If a machine isn't performing well, changing a few parts here and there most likely won't make the machine function more efficiently if the configuration causes the problems.

True.

However, look at it this way.

Our biggest issue is recruitment and we've restructured the system and got a Director of Football in. That's completely revamped, both the system and personnel are now new. Our next issue is coaching. At youth level, we're getting fresh ideas in. At scouting level, we've got new ideas and a system in. The real change will come next when Wenger leaves, that is the change in philosophy of youth coaching. However, we're transitioning for that period very well.

Wenger, for all his faults, DID EVERYTHING at Arsenal, and this is now to the detriment of the club. We needed all this in, because no modern manager will scout players, sign them, coach the team, negotiate contracts, and also look after the Youth Academy. Wenger, for all his faults, did do all this. Do you think the manager has any say in how much Messi is paid at Barca or Pogba at United, or KdB at City?
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Re: Backroom overhaul.

Postby PairyGrows » Thu Dec 21, 2017 5:44 pm

GoonerAlexandre wrote:
PairyGrows wrote:
GoonerAlexandre wrote:
PairyGrows wrote:So, Herron will be in charge of operating the youth team, not managing it. Yet the article mentions the players he has helped to flourish during his time as the youth team manager. Herron will be arranging trips, not coaching.

I think the club is trying to create this 'backroom overhaul' narrative out of nothing. If anythin, I consider these changes in personnel to be superficial at best.

And yet, look at who he's joining, a guy who came in last year, and Per who joins next year. Whatever you say, we've overhauled the Academy, and we've got a Director of Football in all but name.

When Wenger leaves, we're set


What I deem to be an overhaul is a systematic change in the way the club and/or the units within it are run, not just a few appointments here and there. If a machine isn't performing well, changing a few parts here and there most likely won't make the machine function more efficiently if the configuration causes the problems.

True.

However, look at it this way.

Our biggest issue is recruitment and we've restructured the system and got a Director of Football in. That's completely revamped, both the system and personnel are now new. Our next issue is coaching. At youth level, we're getting fresh ideas in. At scouting level, we've got new ideas and a system in. The real change will come next when Wenger leaves, that is the change in philosophy of youth coaching. However, we're transitioning for that period very well.

Wenger, for all his faults, DID EVERYTHING at Arsenal, and this is now to the detriment of the club. We needed all this in, because no modern manager will scout players, sign them, coach the team, negotiate contracts, and also look after the Youth Academy. Wenger, for all his faults, did do all this. Do you think the manager has any say in how much Messi is paid at Barca or Pogba at United, or KdB at City?


The personnel may be all new, but there's no evidence that the system has been revamped. What I understand is that Mislintat will be a helping pair of hands to Wenger. The same goes with Sanllehi; he's been brought in to finalize deals, not as a director of football. Whether the new faces in youth level bring on fresh ideas or more of the same remains to be seen.

None of this points to dilution of Wenger's power at the club. I have no doubt he'll remain a pivotal part in matters football as long as he's the manager of Arsenal. I'm not confidnt he's going to care about the club's future once he's gone.
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Re: Backroom overhaul.

Postby Losmeister » Sun Jan 07, 2018 6:26 pm

they have SO MUCH work to do with this messed up squad...
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Re: Backroom overhaul.

Postby Angelito » Sun Jan 07, 2018 6:29 pm

Work is yet to begin. Before Wenger leaves, I'm sure he'd have fought with Sven and Sanllehi. He already despises their arrival.

Wenger is going to burn everything down before leaving.
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Re: Backroom overhaul.

Postby Sims » Sun Jan 07, 2018 6:30 pm

It’s Gazidis’ club once Arsene leaves in the summer

We can only judge the work done behind the scenes (there has been A LOT of changes) once the overlord steps down
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